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

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

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Time
  • Woman
  • Beauty

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

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • Death
  • Silence
  • Genius

• 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

• 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
  • Men
  • Write
  • Genius

• 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
  • Genius
  • Thing
  • Master

• His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.

  

  Thomas A. Edison
  • Genius
  • Content
  • Sentence

• Genius is an African who dreams up snow.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Dream
  • Genius
  • Snow

• Writers ... I think ... live on that fine line between insanity and genius.

  

  Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
  • Thinking
  • Genius
  • Fine

• There exists no more repulsive and desolate creature in the world than the man who has evaded his genius and who now looks furtively to left and right, behind him and all about him. ... He is wholly exterior, without kernel, a tattered, painted bag of clothes.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Genius
  • Exists
  • Creature

• The one who was born a genius can't win against the one who tries, and the one who tries can't win against the one who enjoys.

  

  Confucius
  • Genius
  • Tries
  • Enjoys

• The great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. And great things are not something accidental, but must certainly be willed.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Together
  • Impulse

• That abominable and sensual act called reading the newspaper, thanks to which all the misfortunes and cataclysms in the universe over the last twenty-four hours, the battles which cost the lives of fifty-thousand men, the murders, the strikes, the bankruptcies, the fires, the poisonings, the suicides, the divorces, the cruel emotions of statesmen and actors, are transformed for us, who don't even care, into a morning treat, blending in wonderfully, in a particularly exciting and tonic way, with the recommended ingestion of a few sips of cafe au lait.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Universe
  • Treat
  • Newspaper

• When I first came to Hollywood I was told to go out with an agent because it was good for my career. So I went to a party with him because it was good for my 'career.' Well, he thought the whole thing was a big date. Needless to say, I was very upset.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Good
  • Career
  • Party

• So 'The Last Airbender' 's philosophy and culture feels like a beautiful idea to me: That we inherently have connections to the elements and what they teach us, and to each other.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Beautiful
  • Culture
  • Idea

• 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