A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others.
Real Genius Quotes
People say i am a genius. I might be one but i am not the only one. There are many other Pakistani girls and boys like me. All those gems need, is a little bit of polishing. And I will do it. That's my aim — Arfa Karim
I don't believe in geniuses, I believe in hard work. — Michel Petrucciani
You will continue to suffer if you have an emotional reaction to everything that is said to you. True power is sitting back and observing everything with logic. If words control your that means everyone can control you. Breathe and allow things to pass.
Is it not in the most absolute simplicity that real genius plies its pinions the most wonderfully? — E. T. A. Hoffmann
Conceit spoils the finest genius?and the great charm of all power is modesty. — Louisa May Alcott
Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it. — J. G. Ballard
Two things you will never have to chase: true friends and true love.
Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine. — Edmund Wilson
How full of the creative genius is the air in which these [snowflakes] are generated! I should hardly admire them more if real stars fell and lodged on my coat. Nature is full of genius. Full of the divinity. So that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand. — Henry David Thoreau
Death is the real inspiring genius or Musagetes of philosophy, and for this reason Socrates defined philosophy as thanatou mélétè (preparation for death; Plato, Phaedo, 81a). Indeed, without death there would hardly have been any philosophizing. — Luce Irigaray
The real geniuses know where their writing has to be good and where they can get away with some mediocrity. — Dmitri Shostakovich
Creative Genius Quotes
Innovators and creative geniuses cannot be reared in schools. They are precisely the men who defy what the school has taught them. — Ludwig von Mises
A harmless hilarity and a buoyant cheerfulness are not infrequent concomitants of genius; and we are never more deceived than when we mistake gravity for greatness, solemnity for science, and pomposity for erudition. — Charles Caleb Colton
For me to say I wasn't a genius I'd just be lying to you and to myself — Kanye West
Knowing others is intelligence, knowing yourself is true wisdom.
Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it. — Dee Hock
Just like inspiration, genius can also come from some of the strangest places. — Cliff Lerner
A woman artist could be one of those intuitive geniuses [who] have kept their childlike spirit and have added to it breadth of vision and experience. — Alfred Stieglitz
Travel and tell no one, live a true love story and tell no one, live happily and tell no one, people ruin beautiful things.
If you gave your inner genius as much credence as your inner critic, you would be light years ahead of where you now stand. — Alan Cohen
I believe everybody in the world is born with genius-level talent. Apply yourself to whatever you’re genius at and you can do anything in the world. — Jay-Z
We will discover the nature of our particular genius when we stop trying to conform to our own or other people's models, learn to be ourselves, and allow our natural channel to open. — Shakti Gawain
The Bible makes it clear that every time that there is a story of faith, it is completely original. God's creative genius is endless. — Eugene H. Peterson
Artistic Genius Quotes
Almost all the noblest things that have been achieved in the world, have been achieved by poor men; poor scholars, poor professional men, poor artisans and artists, poor philosophers, poets, and men of genius. — Albert Pike
If we treat each other as if we are geniuses, poets and artists, we have a better chance of becoming that on stage. — Del Close
History shows us that the people who end up changing the world - the great political, social, scientific, technological, artistic, even sports revolutionaries - are always nuts, until they are right, and then they are geniuses. — John Eliot
True love has a habit of coming back.
The life's story of great geniuses is a sad one, without much tangible reward, which does not inspire future generations to face a similar fate. Alas also, it stands to reason why so many talent will not come to sparkle on the artistic firmanent. — Joseph Haydn
Only the brave should teach....Teaching is a vocation. It is as sacred as priesthood; as innate a desire, as inescapable as the genius which compels a great artist. If he has not the concern for humanity, the love of living creatures, the vision of the priest and the artist, he must not teach. — Pearl S. Buck
The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected. — Henry David Thoreau
Kindness is not a business. True kindness expects nothing in return and should never act with conditions.
The artist must be a philosopher. Socrates the skilled sculptor, Jean-Jacques [Rousseau] the good musician, and the immortal Poussin, tracing on the canvas the sublime lessons of philosophy, are so many proofs that an artistic genius should have no other guide except the torch of reason. — Jacques-Louis David
Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different. — T. S. Eliot
Everyone praises Sachin Tendulkar. He may be a genius in his own right but in my book, Rahul Dravid is the artist. Dravid's defence tactics, his strokes, his cuts, his grace are truly amazing. I'd like to meet the chap sometime and take my hat off to him. — Peter O'Toole
To be bound by traditional martial art style or styles is the way of the mindless, enslaved martial artist. But to be inspired by the traditional martial art and to achieve further heights is the way of genius. — Bruce Lee
Musical Genius Quotes
If a professional musician in a symphony orchestra is playing Beethoven. But this particular orchestra have played this particular chestnut so many times, they can play it in their sleep. Does the genius remain present in the music or not? — Robert Fripp
When I was a freshman in high school, my drama teacher, an incredible, inspirational genius, the guy who got me into acting, he encouraged me to get the lead in a musical. They didn't have any guys. — Casey Affleck
True friendship isn't about being inseparable, it's being separated
Music may not make you a genius, or rich, or even a better person. But it helps train you to think differently, to process different points of view — and most important, to take pleasure in listening. — Joanne Lipman
Nothing great or enduring, especially in music, has ever sprung full-fledged and unprecedented from the brain of any master; the best he gives to the world he gathers from the hearts of the people, and runs it through the alembic of his genius. — James Weldon Johnson
Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
A friend is not a true friend unless he protects his friend in his misfortune, in his absence, and at his death.
Music is not a science any more than poetry is. It is a sublime instinct, like genius of all kinds. — Ouida
Skrillex. The man is a genius and paved a new way for music and it's very inspiring. — Christina Grimmie
Appalachia is still, for American musicians, a kind of fountain of youth we always go back to, the old home place to a group of artists who represent the quintessence of American independence, fortitude, genius, and madness. — Paul Burch
Bach is the supreme genius of music... This man, who knows everything and feels everything, cannot write one note, however unimportant it may appear, which is anything but transcendent. He has reached the heart of every noble thought, and has done it in the most perfect way. — Pablo Casals
Oh! how near are genius and madness! Men imprison them and chain them, or raise statues to them. — Denis Diderot
But mathematics is the sister, as well as the servant, of the arts and is touched with the same madness and genius. — Marston Morse
Be mindful. Be grateful. Be positive. Be true. Be kind.
Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence. — Edgar Allan Poe
I'm left handed and I'm playing a right handed kit... That's why everyone thought, 'Wow, he's a genius,' but all I was doing was trying to play backwards... It's one of those mad accidents, you can't learn it. — Ringo Starr
To build a city where it is impossible to build a city is madness in itself, but to build there one of the most elegant and grandest of cities is the madness of genius. — Alexander Herzen
The difference between insanity and genius is measured only by success and failure. — Masashi Kishimoto
Genius And Madness Quotes
There has never been any great genius without a spice of madness. — Seneca
Obsessive devotion to creating can spark that which is called 'genius.' Smarter or more gifted? The 'madness' is the insatiable drive to discover, achieve and create. Monomania can develop into 'genius,' as the individual delves deeper into the process leaving normal parameters behind. — Paul Russo
The true genius shudders at incompleteness. — Edgar Allan Poe
Eccentricity is not, as some would believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd. — Edith Sitwell
There's a fine line between genius and insanity, as we all know. — Mackenzie Phillips
There is no genius free from some tincture of madness — Seneca
Madness and genius are two sides to the same coin. — John Hendy
I think you're all mad. But that's part and parcel of being an artistic genius, isn't it? — Charles de Lint
Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring. When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I'm already better than them anyways. — Marilyn
Talent And Genius Quotes
Mastery is not a function of genius or talent. It is a function of time and intense focus applied to a particular field of knowledge. — Robert Greene
... it is not the color of the skin that makes the man or the woman, but the principle formed in the soul. Brilliant wit will shine, come from whence it will; and genius and talent will not hide the brightness of its lustre. — Maria W. Stewart
There is nothing more common than unsuccessful men with talent. — Joe Strummer
Religion itself is without genius. There is no religious genius and no one would be permitted to distinguish between the talented and the untalented in religion. — Max Stirner
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of childhood into maturity. — Thomas Huxley
All of us do not have equal talent, but all of us should have an equal opportunity to develop our talent. — John F. Kennedy
Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius. — William Blake
Talent finds its models, methods, and ends in society, exists for exhibition, and goes to the soul only for power to work. Genius is its own end, and draws its means and the style of its architecture from within. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better. — Carl Jung
It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women. — Louisa May Alcott
I’m very proud of Seungri. I worked over a year for my album, but one day YG told Seungri to make an album and he made one in just 2 weeks. Ah, maybe 3 weeks. He’s a true genius. I’m jealous of his propulsion. — G-Dragon
Health, wealth, beauty, and genius are not created; they are only manifested by the arrangement of your mind-that is, by your concept of yourself, and your concept of yourself is all that you accept and consent to as true. — Neville Goddard
Atheism ... that bugbear of women and fools ... is the very top and perfection of free-thinking. It is the grand arcanum to which a true genius naturally riseth, by a certain climax or gradation of thought, and without which he can never possess his soul in absolute liberty and repose. — George Berkeley
Does it not appear to you versatility is the true and rare characteristic of that rare thing called genius-versatility and playfulness? In my mind they are both essential. — Mary Russell Mitford
True education makes for inequality; the inequality of individuality, the inequality of success, the glorious inequality of talent, of genius. — Felix Schelling
Who knows? He [Elon Musk] is a weird guy… He is a true genius and look at the world fundamentally differently than most people do. — Charles Hoskinson
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... Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist... What I must do, is all that concerns me; not what the people think... Nothing can bring you peace but yourself; nothing, but the triumph of principles. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill. — Charles Caleb Colton
All the genius I have lies in this; when I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly. — Alexander H. Stephens
Even if we accept, as the basic tenet of true democracy, that one moron is equal to one genius, is it necessary to go a further step and hold that two morons are better than one genius? — Leo Szilard
A true genius admits that he/she knows nothing. — Albert Einstein
The drafts which true genius draws upon posterity, although they may not always be honored so soon as they are due, are sure to be paid with compound interest in the end. — Charles Caleb Colton
Peter had a genius for imitation; but he lacked true genius, which is creative and makes all from nothing. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Most of the things I do are misunderstood. Hey, after all, being misunderstood is the fate of all true geniuses, is it not? — Howard Stern
The true genius of a great manager is his or her ability to individualize. A great manager is one who understands how to trip each person's trigger. — Marcus Buckingham
There are teachers and students with square minds who are by nature meant to undergo the fascination of catagories. For them, 'schools' and 'movements' are everything; by painting a group symbol on the brow of mediocrity, they condone their own incomprehension of true genius. — Vladimir Nabokov
The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be. — Edgar Allan Poe
The creative genius begins in the idle moment, dreaming up the impossible, and later making it come true. — Virginia C. Andrews
If art is not to be life-enhancing, what is it to be? Half the world is feminine - why is there resentment at a female-oriented art? Nobody asks The Tale of Genji to be masculine! Women certainly learn a lot from books oriented toward a masculine world. Why is not the reverse also true? Or are men really so afraid of women's creativity? — May Sarton
These are times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed. — Abigail Adams
True genius does not fulfill expectations; true genius shatters it. — Paula Abdul
It is the privilege of true genius, And especially genius who opens up a new path, To make great mistakes with impunity — Lewis Carroll
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
An environment of carping and criticism is dangerous to your mental health, whereas those who support and encourage you bring out your true potential and spark your genius. — Willard F. Harley
What is a genius? What is a living legend? What is a megastar? Michael Jackson -- that's all. And when you think you know him, he gives you more. I think he is one of the finest people to hit this planet, and, in my estimation, he is the true King of Pop, Rock and Soul. — Elizabeth Taylor
In order to share one's true brilliance one initially has to risk looking like a fool: genius is like a wheel that spins so fast, it at first glance appears to be sitting still. — Criss Jami
In matters of healing the body or the mind, vacation is a true genius! — Mehmet Murat Ildan
I have had the great good fortune of working with a true genius of yoga, Karuna Erickson, in developing a new system called Heart Yoga. — Andrew Harvey
The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction. — Samuel Johnson
Style is indeed the valet of genius, and an able one too; but as the true gentleman will appear, even in rags, so true genius will shine, even through the coarsest style. — Charles Caleb Colton
I like the idea of taking a true classic written by a true genius and essentially destroying it! — Randy Newman
I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhere. — Beck
Governmental aid is a drawback rather than an assistance, as, although it may facilitate in the routine of artistic production, it is an impediment to the development of true artistic genius. — John Philip Sousa
The whole genius of an author consists in describing well, and delineating character well. Homer, Plato, Virgil, Horace only excel other writers by their expressions and images; we must indicate what is true if we mean to write naturally, forcibly and delicately. — Jean De La Bruyere
Every true poet, I thought, must be original and originality a condition of poetic genius; so that each poet is like a species in nature (not an individuum genericum or specificum ) and can never recur. That nothing shd. be old or borrowed however cannot be. — Gerard Manley Hopkins
The true work of art is the one which the seventh wave of genius throws up the beach where the undertow of time cannot drag it back. — Cyril Connolly
Lenny Breau is one of the true geniuses of the guitar. I suppose he is a musician's musician. His knowledge of the instrument and the music is so vast, and I think that's what knocks people out about him. But he's such a tasty player too. I think if Chopin had played guitar, he would have sounded like Lenny Breau. — Chet Atkins
True genius can be identified by the fact that its expression changes the world into something it has never been before. — David Gerrold
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