Henry Adams Quotes

Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer.

No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.

Genius is rarely able to give any account of its own processes.

It's not that complicated. If you hear something and it makes you want to hear it again, that's the ticket. You have to be lucky enough to find geniuses, welcome them and get out of their way.

Genius is a grace. The true man of genius acts by movement or by impulsion.

Great genius you already have. The super conscious mind is invariably triggered by definition, and by decisiveness.

The definition of genius is that it acts unconsciously, and those who have produced immortal works have done so without knowing how or why.

Talent is full of thoughts, Genius is thought. Talent is a cistern, Genius a fountain.

Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance.

When you hit a groove, it's not you; it's the spirit world. The spirits whisper the ideas in your brain and prod you along. They're the ones that are really happy.

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

Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.

Passion is the genesis of genius.

Genius is eternal patience.

I do not use the word 'genius' lightly, but if David Bowie is not a genius, then there is no such thing.

Genius is not perfected, it is deepened. It does not so much interpret the world as fertilize itself with it.

The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.

Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.

His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.

Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.

It is godlike ever to think on something beautiful and on something new.

Men of genius sometimes accomplish most when they work the least, for they are thinking out inventions and forming in their minds the perfect idea that they subsequently express with their hands.

The most important innovators often don't need any technologies - just imagination and acute sensitivity to people's needs.

Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.

I have never been an innovator, a creative genius.