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
  • Courage
  • Fool
  • Intelligent

• I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Experience
  • Genius
  • Brainy

• 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
  • Great
  • Thought
  • Genius

• I was born in Philadelphia and currently live in Minneapolis. I write for both children and adults.

  

  Kate DiCamillo
  • Live
  • Children
  • Philadelphia

• The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Man
  • Confidence
  • Genius

• 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
  • Losing
  • Philadelphia

• Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Mind
  • Communication
  • Genius

• Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Process
  • Genius
  • Everyone

• Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius.

  

  Isaac D'Israeli
  • Genius
  • Fortune
  • Companion

• 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
  • Education
  • Genius
  • Judgment

• The genius of Man in our time has gone into jet-propulsion, atom-splitting, penicillin-curing, etc. There is none over for works of imagination; of spiritual insight or mystical enlightenment. I asked for bread and was given a tranquilliser.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Time
  • Work
  • Imagination

• I'm no advertising genius. I found that if you deliver news and information to the consumer, or the reader, then the advertisers will follow to reach those readers.

  

  Allen Neuharth
  • Information
  • Genius
  • Advertising

• Great genius you already have. The super conscious mind is invariably triggered by definition, and by decisiveness.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Great
  • Mind
  • Genius

• This woman is a genius in the day time and a beauty at night.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Time
  • Woman
  • Beauty

• Life's fulfillment finds constant obstacles in its path; but those are necessary for the sake of its advance. The stream is saved from the sluggishness of its current by the perpetual opposition of the soil through which it must cut its way. The spirit of fight belongs to the genius of life.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Life
  • Fighting
  • Path

• There is no balking genius. Only death can silence it or hinder.

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • Death
  • Silence
  • Genius

• 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
  • Genius
  • Birth
  • Idiot

• 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
  • Culture
  • Artist
  • Genius

• A genius may perhaps be a century ahead of his age and hence stands there as a paradox, but in the end, the race will assimilate what was once a paradox, so it is no longer paradoxical.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • Truth
  • Genius
  • Race

• He has fantastic powers. He can be imperious, abrupt, impatient with sloppy procedures, but he is also poetic, visionary, romantic. He is possessed by two geniuses: dry-eyed, rigorous exactitude, and generous leaps of imagination - non-rigid, non-uniform and innovative.

  

  Warren Winiarski
  • Imagination
  • Genius
  • Fantastic

• The finest of pleasures are always the unexpected ones.

  

  Erin Morgenstern
  • Pleasure
  • Unexpected
  • Circus

• I'm just protecting my children and making sure I pull them in the right direction so they don't end up like me with having to go through all that hardship. They may not survive so it's all about putting them on the right track.

  

  Mike Tyson
  • Children
  • Direction
  • Survive

• 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
  • Genius
  • Philadelphia
  • Hungry Man