Genius is always impatient of its harness; its wild blood makes it hard to train.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Genius is not some fortunate arrangement of brain cells. Genius is energy, only directed energy.
Gerry Spence
As diamonds cut diamonds, and one hone smooths a second, all the parts of intellect are whetstones to each other; and genius, which is but the result of their mutual sharpening, is character too.
Cyrus Bartol
If people only knew how hard I work to gain my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.
Michelangelo Buonarroti
Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
Thomas Alva Edison
Often a dash of judgment is better than a flash of genius.
Howard Newton
We're brought up, unfortunately, to think that nobody should make mistakes. Most children get de-geniused by the love and fear of their parents - that they might make a mistake. But all my advances were made by mistakes.
Buckminster Fuller
When Nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Constant effort and frequent mistakes are the stepping stones to genius.
Elbert Hubbard
I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know. Most are born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly.
Buckminster Fuller
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