G Quotes
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“Genius is not inspired. Inspiration is perspiration.”
“Genius is not only a what or a who, it is a where. It is grounded in a place every single time.”
“Genius is not perfected, it is deepened. It does not so much interpret the world as fertilize itself with it.”
“Genius is not so much a light as it is a constant awareness of the surrounding gloom.”
Source: His Master's Voice
“Genius is not that you are smarter than everyone else. It is that you are ready to receive the inspiration.”
“Genius is not to create reality. Rather, genius is to discover it and then be brave enough to join it.”
“Genius is nothing but a greater aptitude for patience.”
“Genius is nothing but continued attention.”
“Genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recaptured at will.”
“Genius is nothing more nor less than doing well what anyone can do badly.”
“Genius is nothing more or less than childhood recovered by will, a childhood how equipped for self-expression with an adult's capacities.”
“Genius is nothing more than an extraordinary manifestation of the body.”
“Genius is nothing more than common faculties refined to a greater intensity. There are no astonishing ways of doing astonishing things. All astonishing things are done by ordinary materials.”
Source: Correspondence and Table-talk: With a Memoir
“Genius is nothing more than inflamed enthusiasm.”
“Genius is nourished from within and without.”
“Genius is of no country.”
Source: The Poems of Charles Churchill
“Genius is of no country; her pure ray Spreads all abroad, as general as the day.”
Source: The Poems of Charles Churchill
“Genius is of small use to a woman who does not know how to do her hair.”
Source: Ethan Frome and Other Short Fiction
“Genius is often a short way of spelling hard work. Poverty, obscurity, struggle and ambition formed the foundation for many careers of transcendent achievement. Few marks are made in the world's history by eight-hour-day men.... Sir Joshua Reynolds had but one maxim for success: Work, work, work. Is not rigid and continuous training necessary for the making of strong athletes? Hard work is not fatal to real success. Vouloir c'est pouvoir.”
“Genius is often called crazy, but crazy is never called genius. So you just have to put out the work and let the chips fall where they may.”
“Genius is Omniscience flowing into man.”
Source: The Science of Being Great: Personal Self-Help Book of Wallace D. Wattles (Unabridged): From one of The New Thought pioneers, author of The Science of Getting Rich, The Science of Being Well, How to Get What You Want, Hellfire Harrison, How to Promote Yourself and A New Christ
“Genius is one of the many forms of insanity.”
“Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.”
“Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. As a result, a genius is often a talented person who has simply done all of his homework.”
“Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.”
“Genius is only a greater aptitude for patience.”
“Genius is only a superior power of seeing.”
“Genius is only gifted to the few who are ready to go beyond their comfort-zones. Those who are not satisfied only with the theoretical ideologies.”
Source: What They Asked Me: The Fear of Living and Dying Young
“Genius is only the power of making continuous efforts.”
Source: Loyalty in Business: One and Twenty Other Good Things
“genius is original, unique; and in whatever form it may develop itself is the greatest gift that can be given to man, the strongest known link between the material life we have and the spiritual life that we can only guess at. Every great poet, painter, or musician - every inventor or man of science, every fine actor or orator, comes to us as the exponent of something diviner than we know. We cannot understand it, but we feel it, and acknowledge it.”
“Genius is outcome of a mind broken.”
Source: The Divine Refugee
“Genius is perseverance in disguise.”
“Genius is personal, decided by fate, but it expresses itself by means of system. There is no work of art without system.”
“Genius is play, and man's capacity for achieving genius is infinite, and many may achieve genius only through play.”
“Genius is power, talent is applicability.”
Source: The Topical Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth.”
Source: Selected Writings
“Genius is rare because the means of becoming one have not been available”
“Genius is rarely able to give any account of its own processes.”
Source: The Principles of Success in Literature
“Genius is saying what is in your heart, because it's in everyone's heart.”
“Genius is seldom recognized for what it is: a great capacity for hard work.”
“Genius is simply childhood, rediscovered by an act of will.”
Source: My Heart Laid Bare, and Other Prose Writings
“Genius is simply patience carried to the extreme.”
“Genius is sorrow's child.”
Source: Statesman and Friend: Correspondence of John Adams with Benjamin Waterhouse, 1784-1822
“Genius is subject to the same laws which regulate the production of cotton and molasses.”
“Genius is supposed to be a power of producing excellences which are put of the reach of the rules of art: a power which no precepts can teach, and which no industry can acquire.”
Source: Discourses on the Fine Arts Delivered to the Students of the Royal Academy
“Genius is talent exercised with courage.”
“Genius is talent in which character makes itself heard.”
“Genius is talent provided with ideals.”
“Genius is talent provided with ideals. Genius starves while talent wears purple and fine linen. The man of genius of today will infifty years' time be in most cases no more than a man of talent.”
“Genius is that energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates.”
Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and Genius