Personal Genius Quotes

#1. Fear and self-doubt are the greatest killers of personal genius.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#2. Isadore [Duncan], who had an un-American genius for art, for organizing love, maternity, politics and pedagogy on a great personal scale, had also an un-American genius for grandeur.

Janet Flanner

#3. The secret of unleashing your true power is setting goals that are exciting enough that they truly inspire your creativity and ignite yourpassion.

Tony Robbins

#4. Genius is personal, decided by fate, but it expresses itself by means of system. There is no work of art without system.

Le Corbusier

#5. It is commonly the personal character of a writer which gives him his public significance. It is not imparted by his genius. Napoleon said of Corneille, "Were he living I would make him a king;" but he did not read him. He read Racine, yet he said nothing of the kind of Racine.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#6. I would say the referees have the toughest game to call. I would say that there's a lot of officiating done by announcers, local announcers. Sometimes you should listen to a game from both feeds, and you'd think you were listening to completely different games.

David Stern

#7. When you cling to something from the past, your hands cannot be open to receive the gifts of the future.

Kate McGahan

#8. The individuals who seem to us most outstanding, who are honored with the name of genius, are those who have proposed to enact the fate of all humanity in their personal existences.

Simone De Beauvoir

#9. I stand on the sidewalk watching it because the responsibility is mine and I must, I take a very firm hold on the handles of the baby carriage and I wheel it into the traffic.

Grace Abbott

#10. We, the salt of the earth, should endeavor to follow, by never letting anything disturb us in the pursuit of our intellectual life, however much the storm of the world may invade and agitate our personal environment.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#11. How do you rate works of genius? Partly by personal inclination, partly by accepted wisdom, partly by popularity.

Robert Gottlieb

#12. The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius.

E. M. Forster

#13. An undiscovered genius has no value in the marketplace

Bernard Kelvin Clive

#14. With music, you often don't have to translate it. It just affects you, and you don't know why.

David Byrne

#15. The history of our spiritual life is a continuing search for the unity between ourselves and the world.

Rudolf Steiner

#16. All I've ever wanted was to be near you.

Shannon Hale

#17. The street has its own use for things.

William Gibson

#18. They couldn't understand why he chose patience over hauling her ass straight over to his home and collaring her, since he was clearly in love with her.

April Vine

#19. Our doubts about ourselves cannot be banished except by working at that which is the one and only thing we know we ought to do. Other people's assertions cannot silence the howling dirge within us. It is our talents rusting unused within us that secrete the poison of self-doubt into our bloodstream.

Eric Hoffer

#20. This is the highest miracle of genius, that things which are not should be as though they were, that the imaginations of one mind should become the personal recollections of another.

Thomas B. Macaulay

#21. I have observed that vulgar readers almost always lose their veneration for the writings of the genius with whom they have had personal intercourse.

Egerton Brydges

#22. Englishmen have a genius for looking uncomfortable. Their feelings are terribly mixed up with their personal appearance.

Sara Jeannette Duncan

#23. My grandmother told me, "Words are holy. Treat them with respect. There's power there.

Alma Hogan Snell

#24. When we think of fear as an acronym meant to support us, we find that fear itself has genius, magic and power in it. We can use any fear that we feel to our advantage in the moment by remembering what FEAR really is: Forgetting Everything is All Right.

Lori Cash Richards

#25. Excessive fear and self-doubt that were the greatest detractors of personal genius.

Robert Kiyosaki

#26. There is often an inverse correlation between genius and personal hygiene.

Helen Simonson