But genius, and even great talent, springs less from seeds of intellect and social refinement superior to those of other people than from the faculty of transforming and transposing them. To heat a liquid with an electric lamp requires not the strongest lamp possible, but one of which the current can cease to illuminate, can be diverted so as to give heat instead of light. To mount the skies it is not necessary to have the most powerful of motors, one must have a motor which, instead of continuing to run along the earth's surface, intersecting with a vertical line the horizontal line which it began by following, is capable of converting its speed into lifting power. Similarly, the men who produce works of genius are not those who live in the most delicate atmosphere, whose conversation is the most brilliant or their culture the most extensive, but those who have had the power, ceasing suddenly to live only for themselves, to transform their personality into a sort of mirror, in such a way that their life, however mediocre it may be socially and even, in a sense, intellectually, is reflected by it, genius consisting in reflecting power and not int he intrinsic quality of the scene reflected.
Marcel ProustMots clés talent seed social time genius french intellect proust
Genius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has been pried from its hands and the blood has been cleaned up.
Terry PratchettConstant effort and frequent mistakes are the stepping stones to genius.
Elbert HubbardMots clés mistakes genius effort
In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous.
Robert G. IngersollMots clés intelligence genius danger mediocrity republic
I went to some classes. Vampire was in the Hair of Magical Magic Creatures. He looked all depressed because Draco had disappeared and he had used to be in love with Draco. He was sucking some blood from a Hufflepuff.
Tara GilesbieMots clés genius my-immortal unintentionally-funny
I place my fingers upon these keys typing 2,000 dreams per minute and naked of spirit dance forth my cosmic vortex upon this crucifix called language.
AberjhaniMots clés words books writers dreams literature language creativity endurance genius determination national-poetry-month jack-kerouac the-writing-life nanowrimo aberjhani literary-inspiration famous-authors famous-quotes-from-classic-books writers-and-writing prolific-authors
Real geniuses would like that what we think of ourselves is true.
Dejan StojanovicMots clés poetry philosophy literature genius poets true quotes ourselves poetry-quotes geniuses literature-quotes dejan-stojanovic the-sun-watches-the-sun
A man's genius seems to befriend the more when he reads with open heart, the masterpiece of masterminds, the sagacity of sages, and the ingenious words of geniuses of ages.
Ogwo David EmenikeMots clés inspirational genius sagacity
Developing your unique thought to the level of being appreciated and adopted by the world - that's genius.
Ogwo David EmenikeMots clés motivational inspirational thought genius
Perhaps if I had made his life more difficult, he would have written less, or less freely. I cannot claim to be the midwife to genius, but if I have not facilitated,I have at least not, as many women might have done, prevented. This is a very small virtue to claim, a very negative achievement to hang my whole life on.
A.S. ByattMots clés genius wifely-duty domestic-bliss
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