Eric Weiner Quotes
I'm interested in genius the way a hungry man is interested in Philadelphia cheesesteaks. I want something. I want a piece of it.Eric Weiner
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Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
E. F. Schumacher -
I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.
R. Buckminster Fuller -
When my nephew was 3 and 4, he would say the most genius things. He said, You're hammer macho with FBI dogs. I thought it was just one of those great lines.
Beck -
I was born in Philadelphia and currently live in Minneapolis. I write for both children and adults.
Kate DiCamillo -
The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
What's been largely forgotten is that Washington was highly passionate and aggressive, and it was only after losing Philadelphia to the British after a string of disastrous battlefield performances that he finally resigned himself to the more conservative approach with which he has since become associated.
Nathaniel Philbrick
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Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
R. Buckminster Fuller -
Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius.
Isaac D'Israeli -
In the judgment of the most competent living mathematicians, Fräulein Noether was the most significant creative mathematical genius thus far produced since the higher education of women began.
Albert Einstein -
Great genius you already have. The super conscious mind is invariably triggered by definition, and by decisiveness.
Brian Tracy -
This woman is a genius in the day time and a beauty at night.
Oscar Wilde
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There is no balking genius. Only death can silence it or hinder.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox -
If the birth of a genius resembles that of an idiot, the end of a Havana Corona resembles that of a 5-cent cigar.
Sacha Guitry -
When an artist is in the strict sense working, he of course takes into account the existing tastes, interests and capacity of his audience. These no less than the language , the marble, the paint, are part of his aw material.; to be used, tamed, sublimated, not ignored or defied. Haughty indifference to them is not genius, it is laziness and incompetence.
C. S. Lewis -
It is remarkable what fine hands men of genius write, even when they are as awkward in all other uses of the hand as a cow with a musket.
Sara Coleridge -
The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor; it is the one thing that cannot be learned from others; and it is also a sign of genius, since a good metaphor implies an intuitive perception of the similarity of the dissimilar.
Aristotle -
His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.
Thomas A. Edison
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Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
Vladimir Nabokov -
I prefer to be a villainess. There's something a bit more delicious about their wickedness.
Rachel McAdams -
How can a bureaucrat or a politician be trusted if he says loud words for the sake of Russia's good while trying to take his funds, his money abroad?
Vladimir Putin -
The general message would be to say to all these young people: If you have entrepreneurial aspirations, there is money, there are consumers, there is a huge market. The only thing you need to do is to go there and start doing things.
Maelle Gavet -
I'm interested in genius the way a hungry man is interested in Philadelphia cheesesteaks. I want something. I want a piece of it.
Eric Weiner