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“The first method is that of a schemer and leads only to mediocre results; the other method is the path of genius and changes the face of the world.”

World Firsts Faces Politics Results Power Path Genius Method Mediocre

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“Today we must abandon competition and secure cooperation. This must be the central fact in all our considerations of international affairs; otherwise we face certain disaster. Past thinking and methods did not prevent world wars. Future thinking must prevent wars...The stakes are immense, the task colossal the time is short. But we may hope- we must hope- that man's own creation, man's own genius, will not destroy him.”

“This is the method of genius, to ripen fruit for the crowd by those rays of whose heat they complain.”

Genius Method Fruit Crowds Complaining Heat Rays

Book:Woman in the 19th century, and kindred papers relating to the sphere, condition, and duties of woman

Source: Woman in the 19th century, and kindred papers relating to the sphere, condition, and duties of woman

“The transformation of the impossible into reality is always the mark of a demonic will. The only way to recognize a military genius is by the fact that, during the war, he will mock the rules of warfare and will employ creative improvisation instead of tested methods and he will do so at the right moment.”

Way War Moments Facts Reality Creativity Creative Impossible Military Genius Victory Mark Transformation Method Warfare Tested Improvisation Mock Demonic Right Moment

Author:Stefan Zweig

“Thus men of more enlighten'd genius and more intrepid spirit must compose themselves to the risque of public censure, and the contempt of their jealous contemporaries, in order to lead ignorant and prejudic'd minds into more happy and successful methods.”

Men Mind Spirit Order Learning Successful Genius Method Ignorant Jealous Contempt Enlightening Censure Risque

Author:Jon Jones

“I'd like to talk to Bob Marley. I'd just like to ask him what was his method. Bob is one of the greatest songwriters ever. I don't know if people understand how powerful his songs are and the simplicity and genius behind them.”

People Ifs Knows Song Asks Powerful Behinds Genius Method Simplicity Bob Songwriters Marley

Author:Bruno Mars

“Today, I'd like to talk to Bob Marley. I'd just like to ask him what was his method. Bob is one of the greatest songwriters ever. I don't know if people understand how powerful his songs are and the simplicity and genius behind them, from 'Redemption Song' to 'Is This Love?' and 'I Shot the Sheriff.'”

People Ifs Knows Today Song Asks Powerful Behinds Genius Shots Method Simplicity Redemption Bob Songwriters Sheriffs Marley

Author:Bruno Mars

“Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore they choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing them.”

Men Want Pain Literature Learning Reader Genius Organization Method Pearls Irregularity

Book:Essays Moral and Humorous: Also Essays on Imagination and Taste

Source: Essays Moral and Humorous: Also Essays on Imagination and Taste

“Madness in method, that's genius”

Genius Madness Method

Book:God Emperor of Dune

Source: God Emperor of Dune

“One must indeed be ignorant of the methods of genius to suppose that it allows itself to be cramped by forms. Forms are for mediocrity, and it is fortunate that mediocrity can act only according to routine. Ability takes its flight unhindered.”

Form Ability Genius Method Ignorant Flight Fortunate Routine Mediocrity

Book:Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut

Source: Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut

“In science the successors stand upon the shoulders of their predecessors; where one man of supreme genius has invented a method, a thousand lesser men can apply it. ... In art nothing worth doing can be done without genius; in science even a very moderate capacity can contribute to a supreme achievement.”

Men Art Done Science Genius Thousand Achievement Capacity Accounts Method Supreme Shoulders Invention One Man Moderates Predecessors Successors

Book:Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays

Source: Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays

“It is India that gave us the ingenious method of expressing all numbers by means of ten symbols, each symbol receiving a value of position as well as an absolute value; a profound and important idea which appears so simple to us now that we ignore its true merit. But its very simplicity and the great ease which it has lent to computations put our arithmetic in the first rank of useful inventions; and we shall appreciate the grandeur of the achievement the more when we remember that it escaped the genius of Archimedes and Apollonius, two of the greatest men produced by antiquity.”