Eric Weiner Quotes

Man is a genius when he is dreaming.

One of the strongest characteristics of genius is the power of lighting its own fire.

Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.

Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

Of course creativity is a mystery. We don't know what drives it or what constitutes it. It's one of those things, like genius, you know it when you see it but it's impossible to define.

There is no off position on the genius switch.

To think, and to feel, constitute the two grand divisions of men of genius - the men of reasoning and the men of imagination.

What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality?

One way we can enliven the imagination is to push it toward the illogical. We're not scientists. We don't always have to make the logical, reasonable leap.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent. To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius.

Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.

Upper berth, lower berth, that's the difference between talent and genius.

Great creativity is astonishingly, absurdly, rationally, irrationally powerful.

Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.

A genius is someone with the ability to come up with ideas that are new, surprising and valuable.

The conventional mind is passive - it consumes information and regurgitates it in familiar forms. The dimensional mind is active, transforming everything it digests into something new and original, creating instead of consuming.

Creativity is a huge part of my game as a player. It helps open doors which others don't see.

Everyone is super creative in the family.

Sometimes a crazy idea can make something special.

The fact is that creativity is everywhere. It's just about the way that you look at things.

Geniuses don't have better ideas than the rest of us. They just have more of them.

Creativity requires novelty. Imagination is all about counterfactuals and untested possibilities that don't yet exist.

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.