The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of childhood into maturity
--Thomas Henry Huxley
Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it.
Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Genius is there in all of us, just waiting for us to tap into it"
--Robert R. Toth, from Sculptor is motivated by greatness.
Salisbury Post 6/19/03
When Nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality,
the opening of new frontiers.
--Arthur Koestler
If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend,
experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother,
and hope your guardian genius.
--Joseph Addison English poet, essayist, and playwright
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor
both together to the making of genius. Love, love, love,
that is the soul of genius
--Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Talent is what you possess; genius is what possesses you.
--Malcolm Cowley
Genius is only the power of making continuous efforts.
The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely
know when we pass it; so fine that we are often on the line and
do not know it.
--Elbert Hubbard
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.
Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful
men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius
is almost a proverb. Education will not the world is full of
educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are
omnipotent. The slogan, 'Press on,' has solved and always
will solve the problems of the human race
--Calvin Coolidge
To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true
for you in your private heart is true for all men -
that is genius.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
Take back the beauty and wit you bestow upon me;
leave me my own mediocrity of agreeableness and genius,
but leave me also my sincerity, my constancy, and my plain dealing;
'tis all I have to recommend me to the esteem either of others or myself.
--Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762) English author
To see things in the seed, that is genius.
--Lao-Tzu
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex...
It takes a touch of genius ---
and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
--Albert Einstein
Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.
--Albert Einstein
Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the
individual who possesses it.
--Anne Louise Germaine de Stael (1766-1817)
French-Swiss woman of letters, novelist
There's a fine line between genius and insanity.
I have erased this line.
--Oscar Levant
Genius is another word for magic, and the whole
point of magic is that it is inexplicable.
--Margot Fonteyn (1919-____) English dancer
Each indecision brings its own delays and days are lost
lamenting over lost days...What you can do or think you can do,
begin it. For boldness has magic, power, and genius in it.
--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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