And indeed if you think you're a genius at something, what you achieve is very much according to your expectations; if you think you're no good, you're not going to get anywhere.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
You will never succeed while smarting under the drudgery of your occupation, if you are constantly haunted with the idea that you could succeed better in something else.
Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.
When things don't go well, it helps to think of yourself as a genius and the rest of the world as a bunch of idiots.
Genius is nothing more than common faculties refined to a greater intensity. There are no astonishing ways of doing astonishing things. All astonishing things are done by ordinary materials.
If you want to achieve things in life, you've just got to do them, and if you're talented and smart, you'll succeed.
The definition of genius, really, should be that that person can do what the rest of us have to learn how to do.
Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.
Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.
It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.
A genius is one who can do anything except make a living.