Anne Morrow Lindbergh Quotes

The only term I won't accept is "genius."

A man possesses talent; genius possesses the man.

When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.

Passion is the genesis of genius.

Genius is a sovereign power; it forms schools; it lays hold on the spirits of men, with irresistible might; and it exercises an immeasurable influence on the whole condition of human life. This sovereignty of genius is a gift of God, possessed only by his grace. It is subject to no one and is responsible to him alone who has granted it this ascendancy.

Nothing is more creative... nor destructive... than a brilliant mind with a purpose.

Genius, in one respect, is like gold; numbers of persons are constantly writing about both, who have neither.

I am mountains that crush. I am waves that crash. I am storms that shatter. I am the end.

The very greatest genius, after all, is not the greatest thing in the world, any more than the greatest city in the world is the country or the sky. It is the concentration of some of its greatest powers, but it is not the greatest diffusion of its might. It is not the habit of its success, the stability of its sereneness.

Since that day, when people have spoken to me of "genius", I have felt the inside pocket to make sure my wallet's still there.

Sometimes I stagger even myself with my genius.

Critics are notoriously liberal with their use of the term 'genius'.

Genius, that power which constitutes a poet; that quality without which judgment is cold, and knowledge is inert; that energy which collects, combines, amplifies and animates.

True genius walks along a line, and, perhaps, our greatest pleasure is in seeing it so often near falling, without being ever actually down.

What is genius? It is the power to be a boy again at will.

A genius is a mentally ill person with an audience

I know of no such thing as genius, genius is nothing but labor and diligence.

Genius is another word for magic.

One day you wake up and realize the world can be conquered... I'm going to put a mask on and scrawl my name across the face of the world, build cities of gold, come back and stomp this place flat, until even the bricks are just dust. So you can just shut up. All of you. I'm going to move the world.

Genius is mainly an affair of energy.

The thing that most people call 'genius' I do not believe in.

Genius declares itself to be a kind of higher masculinity.

The great test of life is ... not to endure storms, but to choose the right while they rage.

Tom Finney would have been great in any team, in any match and in any age, even if he had been wearing an overcoat.

These dust storms.... Poor farmer spent a lifetime fixin' his farm and everything, goes out and looks down at it, and it's up above him.