The major work of the world is not done by geniuses. It is done by ordinary people, with balance in their lives, who have learned to work in an extraordinary manner.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Genius is a potential that lives within you and every other human being. You have many moments of genius in your lifetime. These are the times when you have a uniquely brilliant idea and implement it even if only you are aware of how fantastic it is.
Genius is not perfected, it is deepened. It does not so much interpret the world as fertilize itself with it.
A genius is one who can do anything except make a living.
Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.
It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.
The definition of genius, really, should be that that person can do what the rest of us have to learn how to do.
Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.
Genius is that in which the soul of a race bums at its brightest, revealing and preserving its vision; works of art are great and significant in proportion to the clarity and fulness with which they incarnate this vision.
Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.
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.