Quotes by Genius If God were not only to hear our prayers, as he does ever and always, but to answer them as we want them answered, he would not be God our Saviour but the ministering genius of our destruction. George MacDonald genius prayer doe It appears to me that strong sense and acute sensibility together constitute genius. George Pope Morris genius strong together Men and women make sad mistakes about their own symptoms, taking their vague uneasy longings, sometimes for genius, sometimes for religion, and oftener still for a mighty love. George Eliot genius mistake men Chess may be the deepest, least exhaustible of pastimes, but it is nothing more. As for a chess genius, he is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise. George Steiner genius may littles Hold on; hold fast; hold out. Patience is genius. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon perseverance genius patience The life of great geniuses is nothing but a sublime storm. George Sand storm sublime genius Genius is simply patience carried to the extreme. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon extremes genius business Genius, whether locked up in a cell or roaming at large, is always solitary. George Sand roaming genius cells You have a genius for bringing trouble upon yourself Georgette Heyer genius trouble Sanctity and genius are as rebellious as vice. George Santayana rebellious genius vices I don't use the word lightly, in fact, I don't use it at all, but Ben Marcus is a genius, one of the most daring, funny, morally engaged and brilliant writers, someone whose work truly makes a difference in the world. His prose is, for me, awareness objectified-he makes the word new and thus the world. George Saunders making-a-difference differences genius 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 poetic originality genius It is necessary for the welfare of society that genius should be privileged to utter sedition, to blaspheme, to outrage good taste, to corrupt the youthful mind, and generally to scandalize one's uncles. George Bernard Shaw uncles genius mind her age was that indeterminate mixture of everlasting youth and anticipated wisdom which is the glory and the curse of genius. Gertrude Atherton mixtures genius age How did he do it? He must be a genius! Gian-Carlo Rota genius ... France is the genius among nations. Gertrude Atherton france nations genius A man of genius is not a man who sees more than other men do. On the contrary, it is very often found that he is absentminded andobserves much less than other people.... Why is it that the public have such an exaggerated respect for him--after he is dead? The reason is that the man of genius understands the importance of the few things he sees. George Bernard Shaw genius men people To complicate things in new ways, that is really very easy; but to see things in new ways, that is difficult and that is why genius is so rare. Gertrude Stein genius easy way Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is the only musician who had as much knowledge asgenius, and as much genius as knowledge. Gioachino Rossini amadeus musician genius What Skrillex does with Ableton it's like being a little god. It's not just pushing loops - that's easy - but to do the effects he's a genius. Giorgio Moroder genius doe littles «2324252627282930313233»
