Fulke Greville Quotes

But genius looks forward: the eyes of men are set in his forehead, not in his hindhead: man hopes: genius creates.

To see things in the seed, that is genius.

I'm no genius. I'm not at all; I just happen to look five or 10 years ahead and think things through.

Intelligence recognizes what has happened. Genius recognizes what will happen.

Philip Glass once told me, "They can always copy what you've done, but they can't copy what you're going to do."

The book, the college, the school of art, the institution of any kind, stop with some past utterance of genius. . . . They look backward and not forward. But genius looks forward: the eyes of man are set in his forehead, not in his hindhead: man hopes: genius creates. Whatever talents may be, if the man create not, the pure efflux of the Deity is not his; - cinders and smoke there may be, but not yet flame.

Joseph Bazalgette created a sewer system which he originally sized for London's needs of the time - he then doubled it to anticipate the future beyond. These are the qualities that I admire.

The future belongs to those who see possibilities before they become obvious.

Genius always finds itself a century too early.

I'm fifty years ahead of my time.

Wit lives in the present, but genius survives the future.

The visionary is the only realist.

I have always been ahead of my time.

They who look but little into futurity, have, perhaps, the quickest sensation of the present.

My job is to think beyond the immediate.

Thoughtful people are concerned with the future because that is the only area of experience about which anything can be done. We cannot change the past, and the present is gone as soon as it is reported, but the future is that in which we can make a difference.

I am not a finisher, I am a starter. And I am always thinking, what is the next project.

A genius may perhaps be a century ahead of his age and hence stands there as a paradox, but in the end, the race will assimilate what was once a paradox, so it is no longer paradoxical.

Genius: The capacity to see and to express what is simple, simply!

There is no need to create. Genius comes only to those who know how to use their eyes and their intelligence.

My grandfather was a most gifted person, and amongst his many qualities, one of them had always particularly impressed me. While the past was a book he had read and re-read may times, the future was just one more literary work of art into which he used to pour himself with deep thought and concentration. Innumerable people since his death have told me how he used to read in the future, and this certainly was one of his very great strengths.

People have laughed at all great inventors and discoverers.

To be successful be ahead of your time, but only a little.

I like people who can see what other people can't yet imagine.

First have being in your mind. Make real in your mind then bring that being into reality. The genius is he who sees what is not yet and causes it to come to be.