G Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with G. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Genius is that in which the soul of a race bums at its brightest, revealing and preserving its vision; works of art are great and significant in proportion to the clarity and fulness with which they incarnate this vision.”
“Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent - the power to do the right thing the first time.”
“Genius is the ability to connect the unconnected (the entirely unrelated), to form new ideas, which are never-before-seen combinations.”
Source: CopyCat: How to Escape Status Quo Thinking and Lead the Field
“Genius is the ability to hold one's vision steady until it becomes reality”
“Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person.”
“Genius is the ability to push one's limits beyond the limits each time, every endeavour.”
“Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.”
Source: The Crack-up
“Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.”
Source: Gods, Graves & Scholars: The Story of Archaeology
“Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience.”
“Genius is the ability to see the self-evident where the rest of the world turns blind.”
“Genius is the ability to see things invisible, to manipulate things intangible, to paint things that have no features”
“Genius is the accumulated wealth of our humanity--its most intense development concentrated at one point, and then with clearer expression and with mysterious power shot back to us across the galvanic lines of thought and feeling.”
“Genius is the act of solving a problem in a way no one has solved it before.”
“Genius is the art of taking pains”
Source: Scientific Advertising Origins
“Genius is the basis for the deepest type of mentoring. When true learning occurs genius teaches genius and both the teacher and the student grow.”
“Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one's training.”
Source: Venetian and North Italian Schools
“Genius is the capacity for receiving and improving by discipline.”
“Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.”
“Genius is the capacity of avoiding hard work.”
“Genius is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one, and the man of talent sees two or three, plus the ability to register that multiple perception in the material of his art.”
“Genius is the error in the system.”
Source: Paul Klee
“Genius is the father of a heavenly line, but the mortal mother, that is industry.”
Source: Ten Sermons of Religion
“Genius is the gold in the mine, talent is the miner who works and brings it out.”
“Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.”
“Genius is the power of lighting one's own fire!”
“Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.”
“Genius is the summed production of the many with the names of the few attached for easy recall.”
“Genius is the talent of a person who is dead.”
“Genius is the true mystery, and at its edge--the abyss.”
“Genius is the union of man and God in the acts of the soul. Great men are always greater than their deeds. They are in connection with a reserve power that is without limit.”
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 the very eye of intellect and the wing of thought; it is always in advance of its time, and is the pioneer for the generation which it precedes.”
Source: Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside
“Genius is to other gifts what the carbuncle is to the precious stones. It sends forth its own light, whereas other stones only reflect borrowed light.”
“Genius is what a man invents when he is looking for a way out.”
Source: Nausea
“Genius is what makes us forget the master's talent.”
“Genius is when an idea and the execution of that idea are simultaneous.”
“Genius is when you strike a chord accidently, and the ensuing music is beyond your control”
Source: The Great Pearl of Wisdom
“Genius is, to be sure, not a matter of arbitrariness, but rather of freedom, just as wit, love, and faith, which once shall become arts and disciplines. We should demand genius from everybody, without, however, expecting it.”
“Genius isn’t about being the smartest in the room; it’s about daring to think differently, embracing curiosity, and pushing boundaries to create something extraordinary. When we unlock our unique genius master keys, we unlock a world of possibilities.”
Source: Out With The Old TREND INTO YOUR NEW
“Genius knows where the questions are hidden.”
“Genius lasts longer than beauty”
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray (Diversion Classics)
“Genius lasts longer than Beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves.”
Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts
“Genius learns from nature, its own nature. Talent learns from art.”
“Genius learns little and limits quickly, while the fool knows no limits, learning ceaselessly with good humor enjoying laugher along the way.”
Source: Beyond the Fringe: My Experience with Extended Intelligence
“Genius loci cannot be designed to order. It has to evolve, to be allowed to hapen, to grow and change from the direct efforts of those who live and work in places and care about them...No matter how sophisticated technical knowledge may be, the understanding of others' lives and problems will always be partial. Just as outsiders cannot feel their pain, so they cannot experience their sense of place. I believe, therefore, that it is impossible to make complete places in which other poeple can live. And, in a world dominated by international economic processes and global telecommunications, there can be no return to an environment of integrated and distinctive places.”
“Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.”
“Genius may anticipate the season of maturity; but in the education of a people, as in that of an individual, memory must be exercised, before the powers of reason and fancy can be expanded: nor may the artist hope to equal or surpass, till he has learned to imitate, the works of his predecessors.”
Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
“Genius may be almost defined as the faculty of acquiring poverty.”
Source: Essays and Reviews
“Genius may be born, but innovation can be learned.”
“Genius may be for an hour or a thousand years; its indispensable quality is continuity with the life-push.”
Source: Everyman's genius
“Genius may conceive but patient labor must consummate.”