Genius Quotes

As we discard a limited mind and a life of limitation to step into the grandness of vastness, we realize infinity itself to be the Guru and all that we do as grace. As we traverse through consciousness that is the Guru, we become the Guru and each thought of ours is perfect in the now, as scriptures. Consciousness is the Guru, the wisdom.

~ Nandhiji

I picture the vast realm of the sciences as an immense landscape scattered with patches of dark and light. The goal towards which we must work is either to extend the boundaries of the patches of light, or to increase their number. One of these tasks falls to the creative genius; the other requires a sort of sagacity combined with perfectionism.

~ Denis Diderot

Even the richest of brands are robbed by poor character.

~ Criss Jami

To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius.

~ Joyce Cary

I had often said that I would write, the wives of geniuses I have sat with. I have sat with so many. I have sat with wives who were not wives, of geniuses who were real geniuses. I have sat with real wives of geniuses who were not real geniuses. In short, I have sat very often and very long with many wives and wives of many geniuses.' Gertrude Stein wrote this in the voice of her partner, Alice B. Toklas, Stein being apparently the genius, Alice apparently the wife. 'I am nothing,' Alice said after Gertrude dies, 'but a memory of her.'...the flashing blues and red made him look ill, then well, then ill again...

~ Lauren Groff

Well, the gold fish in the bowl lay upside down bloatingFull in the sky and the plains were bleached white with skeletonsVarious species grouped together accordingTo their past beliefsThe only way they ever all got together wasNot in love but shameful grief

~ Don Van Vliet

Gently the waves would break (Lily heard them in her sleep); tenderly the light fell (it seemed to come through her eyelids). And it all looked, Mr. Carmichael thought, shutting his book, falling asleep, much as it used to look years ago.

~ Virginia Woolf

The morning, which is the most memorable season of the day, is the awakening hour. Then there is least somnolence in us; and for an hour, at least, some part of us awakes that slumbers all the rest of the day and night. Little is to be expected of that day, if it can be called a day, to which we are not awakened by our Genius, but by the mechanical nudgings of some servitor, are not awakened by our own newly acquired force and aspirations from within.... After a partial cessation of his sensuous life, the soul of man, or its organs rather, are reinvigorated each day, and his Genius tries again what noble life it can make... The Vedas say, All intelligences awake with the morning. All poets and heroes, like Memnon, are the children of Aurora, and emit their music at sunrise.

~ Henry David Thoreau

To shift your life in a desired direction, you must powerfully shift your subconscious.

~ Kevin Michel

We are born winners, but we are hypnotized by the society to succumb to mediocrity and moulded into self-victimization. It is for each one of us to regain our self-geniusness.

~ Vishwas Chavan

Alexander could transmit imagination as some other could transmit lust.

~ Mary Renault

Now more than ever the world needs your brilliance, your voice, your unique imagination, and your particular genius.

~ Gloria Burgess

I refuse to settle for what you call reality.

~ Solange Nicole

The imagination of the genius vastly surpasses his intellect, the intellect of the academic vastly surpasses his imagination

~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Evidently, one thing seems to have more value in direct proportion to whether or not we feel we have the freedoms, joys or conveniences of that thing.

~ David Brier

So it comes down to scarcity, one product or service having qualities you won’t find everywhere or ideally, anywhere. It’s the job of every brand to seek that out as their standard, their stamp.

~ David Brier

Look at every ‘revolutionary’ brand or category killer, it had an app, or a feature, or a functionality, or a user experience nobody else at that point could offer. I refer to this as ‘the Killer App’ principle.

~ David Brier

The opposite of value is a commodity item with little or no perceived value — which means people are not seeking it out and when they do, it’s merely one of the many choices (so very likely the cheapest offering will get the sale).

~ David Brier

When it comes to branding and the ever-changing social media phenomenon, you’re not a mushroom. In other words, you shouldn’t be kept in the dark and fed a pile of...well, you get the idea.

~ David Brier

Why do some brands grow explosively when others (that could be thriving) die a lonely and forgettable death?

~ David Brier

A great sports car that goes from 0-60 in 3.9 seconds is just a fact. To the wrong audience, it’s irrelevant. But to the right audience, it’s a passion.

~ David Brier

Who are we, and how do we relate this idea in a way that’s meaningful to our customers and the values they hold dear?In other words, one must define something meaningful. To do that, one must identify to whom this must be meaningful.

~ David Brier

The biggest mistake brands make are trying to “sell their stuff” rather than clarifying what people are actually buying.

~ David Brier

It becomes a question of 'How do we convey our differentiation instantaneously?' and drive a wedge between any apparent (or assumed) sameness in the marketplace.

~ David Brier

There are three points I used to help a gourmet chocolatier increase sales 300% in a single month as well as a Midwest city to increase tourism guests 500% in 12 months.

~ David Brier

That’s the problem with any ‘simple truth’—it always takes a gaggle of complete idiots or a team of all-knowing geniuses to miss it.

~ Ali Sheikh

Flawless and faultless outcomes are not products of lawless and careless people. No lawless person is a genuine innovator. To your skillfulness, add good manners; to your willfulness, add carefulness!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

The genius of a great magician is as impressive as the genius of a great scientist.

~ Amit Kalantri

I would be dreadfully remiss not to think that God would painstakingly craft something an intimately ingenious and inexplicably intricate as my life, and that by virtue of such sheer brilliance I should not examine it with the greatest precision and unleash it with the fullest abandon.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Misunderstood! It is a right fool's word. Is it so bad then to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you can be kind to people, you will be a genius in this world.

~ Bryant Mcgill

The mainspring of genius is curiosity.

~ Charles Baudelaire

Never underestimate the power of thought, it is the greatest path to discovery.

~ Idowu Koyenikan

All things remarkable are surprisingly simple, albeit difficult to find.

~ Criss Jami

In the silence of night, great minds either unite or die

~ Katja Michael

To access your subconscious, is to access your 'higher-self.

~ Kevin Michel

Our talents are living things, we give birth to them, nourish them till they grow and become immortal.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

We may be closest to hearing the call when we feel most alone or in trouble, for genius hides behind the wound and one of the greatest wounds in life is to not know who we are intended to be or what we are supposed to serve in life.

~ Michael Meade

To my knowledge, no one in or out of the field has ever been able to cite a game worthy of comparison with the great dramatists, poets, filmmakers, novelists and composers. That a game can aspire to artistic importance as a visual experience, I accept. But for most gamers, video games represent a loss of those precious hours we have available to make ourselves more cultured, civilized and empathetic.

~ Roger Ebert

The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson