Isaac Mayer Wise Quotes

Genius is inconsiderate, self-relying, and, like unconscious beauty, without any intention to please.

Isaac Mayer Wise

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• Inconsiderate
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• I'm tired of the speculation about my personal life.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Life
  • Tired
  • Personal

• I remember doing my mosaics or being in my little hiding place behind the couch snooping. I'd get bored sometimes, of course, but I think that's good for a kid, because it forces you to be creative.

  

  Feist
  • Good
  • Remember
  • Think

• A lot of people have a sense-of-entitlement mentality that somebody else ought to do these things for them. People are mad at the government for not getting jobs for them. I don't understand why it's the government's responsibility.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • People
  • Why
  • Government

• The American president has a peculiar leadership responsibility to speak out for freedom.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • American
  • Freedom
  • Responsibility

• No man was ever great by imitation.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Great
  • Man
  • Imitation

• Ineptitude and negligence directed British policies in India more than any cynical desire to divide and rule, but the British were not above exploiting rivalries.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Desire
  • India
  • Cynical

• In the dressing room, we've just made it really Zen: low lighting, lots of candles, and fresh, healthy food.

  

  Flume
  • Food
  • Healthy
  • Lighting

• I was in Asia and people asked me about being considered sex symbol. I don't know if that's good or not, because where I come from, sex isn't something you're allowed to talk about.

  

  Bai Ling
  • People
  • Good
  • Me

• I love being in the present. When I was playing for my school, the only thing I wanted to do was get selected for the under-16 or the under-19 district teams. When I was selected for the district, I would think about the next level, which was getting selected for the state side. I'm a person who lives very in the moment.

  

  Mahendra Singh Dhoni
  • Think
  • Present
  • Person

• Somehow it just don't seem fittin' for a bridegroom to spend his weddin' night in a tree.

  

  Jane Powell
  • Men
  • Night
  • Tree

• No negotiation is ever possible if you have to negotiate not only with the people in the room but also with some other committee in permanent session.

  

  Jack Straw
  • People
  • Negotiation
  • Session

• So you're quite right that when... as the Cold War grew and expanded out of Europe, we ourselves had to take refuge behind the shield of the Monroe Doctrine.

  

  E. Howard Hunt
  • War
  • Cold

• So long as one person remembers you, you'll never really be dead.

  

  Lurlene McDaniel
  • Long
  • Remember
  • inspirational

• Reason can never be the absolute dictator of man's mental or moral economy.

  

  Anthony Daniels
  • Moral

• I'm not a feminist. I hail men, I love men. I celebrate American male culture, and beer, and bars and muscle cars.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Men
  • American
  • Culture

• There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Power
  • Person
  • Genius

• When a crowd rushes into your house without declaring its intention, it is, by definition, an invasion.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • House
  • Without
  • Intention

• My father, I think he played percussion in high school. My mother played piano when she was very young, but only for a brief while. I don't think she had a great teacher. In any case, neither of them were really into music at a young age.

  

  Aaron Diehl
  • Music
  • School
  • Mother

• Genius is inconsiderate, self-relying, and, like unconscious beauty, without any intention to please.

  

  Isaac Mayer Wise
  • Genius
  • Intention
  • Inconsiderate