Flash Of Genius Quotes

#1. The source, which some of us call God, gave us consciousness from itself. That flash of genius is inside each of us.

Ruben Papian

#2. The moment of recognizing your own lack of talent is a flash of genius.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

#3. Genius is a light which makes the darkness visible, like the lightning's flash, which perchance shatters the temple of knowledge itself.

Henry David Thoreau

#4. When I think about popular culture, I can't help but think that we're living in the age of loneliness. There's this illusion that we all have instant access to each other, but we actually have no real connection.

Madonna Ciccone

#5. When you think you've got hold of a genius ... you can't be sure whether it's a spark of the divine fire or a mere flash in the pan.

May Sinclair

#6. Persistence isn't very glamorous. If genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration, then as a culture we tend to lionize the one percent. We love its flash and dazzle. But great power lies in the other ninety-nine percent.

Susan Cain

#7. We are a strange people, Howden thought: an unpredictable admixture of mediocrity and genius, with now and then a flash of greatness.

Arthur Hailey

#8. After an hour of gliding though the crowd and two glasses of tepid wine later, Penelope had reached the spiritual state of being merrily tipsy. It was that perfect state when everything starts looking wonderful and every tragedy turns into a comedy.

Anya Wylde

#9. We sometimes have a flash of understanding that amounts to the insight of genius, and yet it slowly withers, even in our hands - like a flower. The form remains, but the colours and the fragrance are gone.

Robert Musil

#10. Genius hath electric power; Which earth can never tame; Bright suns may scorch and dark clouds lower; Its flash is still the same.

Lydia M. Child

#11. The greatest products of architecture are less the works of individuals than of society; rather the offspring of a nation's effort, than the inspired flash of a man of genius ...

Victor Hugo

#12. Your past doesn't have to
determine your future.

Makayla Townsell

#13. It is superstitious to equate our feelings and inclinations with the leading of the Holy Spirit.

R.C. Sproul

#14. If it is a miracle any sort of evidence will answer. But if it is a fact, proof is necessary.

Mark Twain

#15. It is one thing to be brave in front of others, perhaps for fear of being branded a coward and becoming diminished in their eyes, but another entirely to be brave when there is nobody to witness your courage. The latter is an elemental bravery, a strength of spirit and character.

John Connolly

#16. The more you move in rhythm with someone, the closer you become with that person.

George Leonard

#17. Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.

Franz Grillparzer

#18. I started off thinking Eminem was a flash in the pan, a kind of hip-hop Hanson brother. How wrong I was. Recovery is sometimes funny, sometimes terrible, always painfully honest. The matching of Eminem and Rihanna on "Love the Way You Lie" is pure genius. "Not Afraid" is pretty great too.

Stephen King