#Genius

"When you make a choice, you change the future."

"Never underestimate spite as a motivator for genius."

"We're very familiar with the idea that some things are so complex they're beyond our comprehension. This not only keeps us solving and experimenting but also distracted. Many things are really so simple we can't see them under our big noses."

"In order to share one's true brilliance one initially has to risk looking like a fool: genius is like a wheel that spins so fast, it at first glance appears to be sitting still."

"Neatness begets order; but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship."

"Intelligence entails a strong mind, but genius entails a heart of a lion in tune with a strong mind."

"A few nights later, I secretly hope that I might be a genius. Why else can no amount of sleeping pills fell my brain? But in the morning my daughter asks me what a cloud is and I cannot say."

"Mild autism can give you a genius like Einstein. If you have severe autism, you could remain nonverbal. You don't want people to be on the severe end of the spectrum. But if you got rid of all the autism genetics, you wouldn't have science or art. All you would have is a bunch of social 'yak yaks.'"

"Love is like a river flowing through your heart. I’ll bring the boat, if you bring the bridge."

"If you wish success in life, make perseverance you bosom friend, experience your wise councellor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius."

"Rules and models destroy genius and art."

"Art has a double visage: it looks before and after. Romance is its forward-looking face. The germ of growth is in romanticism. Formalism, on the other hand, consolidates tradition; gleans what has been gained and makes it facile to the hand or the mind; economizes the energy of genius."

"Genius is an inner inherent intuition and perception. It is not a teachable condition."

"Incredibly intelligent people always seem odd to those who are not as sharp."

"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction."

"How many seconds does it take to win second? As many as it takes to win first—if you don’t use them properly."

"It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much, doing nothing, really doing nothing."

"Have faith that your child's brain is an evolving planet that rotates at its own speed. It will naturally be attracted to or repel certain subjects. Be patient. Just as there are ugly ducklings that turn into beautiful swans, there are rebellious kids and slow learners that turn into serious innovators and hardcore intellectuals."

"Emotion is always multiplied in the art of a person who doesn't really show much emotion. It once expanded deep within his hidden soul, and following the downplay his audience is blown away."

"The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success."