“Thirty, 40 years ago, more than that now, even, the cook was certainly at the bottom of the social scale. And any mother would've wanted their child to marry a doctor, a lawyer, an architect, not a cook. Now, we are genius, it's different.” YearsChildrenDifferentWantedMotherSocialGeniusYears AgoDoctorsBottomLawyerScalesCooksThirtyArchitect Author:Jacques Pepin
“My musical genius reached its apex thirty years ago when I played the triangle in Haydn's children's symphony, so I could not play unless you needed someone to make one sustained note!” YearsChildrenPlayGeniusNeededYears AgoNotesMusicalThirtySymphonyThirty YearsTrianglesApexNeeded SomeoneMusical Genius Author:May Sarton
“We're often afraid to do anything unless we know we can do it extremely well. But we get to Carnegie Hall by practicing. I remember how freeing it was several years ago to read in an interview with Joan Baez that some of Bob Dylan's early songs weren't so wonderful. We have this image of genius springing fully grown out of Zeus' forehead.” KnowsYearsWellsRememberSongCan DoWonderfulGeniusYears AgoInterviewsHallsBobDylanForeheadsZeusCarnegieCarnegie Hall Author:Marianne Williamson
“Jim Dean and Elvis were the spokesmen for an entire generation. When I was in acting school in New York, years ago, there was a saying that if Marlon Brando changed the way people acted, then James Dean changed the way people lived. He was the greatest actor who ever lived. He was simply a genius.” PeopleIfsWayYearsSchoolActorsActingGenerationsNew YorkChangedGeniusYears AgoDeanBrando Author:Martin Sheen
“The extraordinary genius of John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie 100 years ago was their recognition that the great wealth they had amassed could be put to public good and used to solve the complex problems for which there were no other sources of capital.” YearsProblemUsedWealthSourceGeniusYears AgoComplexesExtraordinarySolveRecognitionAndrewPublic GoodCarnegieComplex ProblemsJohn D Rockefeller Author:Judith Rodin
“Without any extraordinary effort of genius, I have discovered that nature was the same three thousand years ago as at present; that men were but men then as well as now; that modes and customs vary often, but that human nature is always the same. And I can no more suppose, that men were better, braver, or wiser, fifteen hundred or three thousand years ago, than I can suppose that the animals or vegetables were better than they are now.” MenYearsHumansWellsI CanThreeAnimalEffortHuman NatureGeniusThousandHundredYears AgoExtraordinaryCustomsVegetablesFifteenThousand YearsWiserVary Author:Lord Chesterfield