Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered – either by themselves or by others.
Mark TwainI didn’t think it was special to be able to sing.
Amy WinehouseI was a good football player, and I had a chance to play with some great players.
Dwayne JohnsonIf I had a talent, it was for looking askew at everything, possibly more than my contemporaries. But I had to really push myself to be a writer.
David BowieOf the love or hatred God has for the English, I know nothing, but I do know that they will all be thrown out of France, except those who die there.
Joan of ArcYou know, God gave me a gift to do other things besides play the game of basketball.
LeBron JamesThe narrow bandwidth of TV has made us think that we are stupider than we are.
Jordan PetersonThough men determine, the gods doo dispose: and oft times many things fall out betweene the cup and the lip.
Robert GreeneSincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite.
Charles SpurgeonIt is a curious thing: man, the centre and creator of all science, is the only object which our science has not yet succeeded in including in a homogeneous representation of the universe. We know the history of his bones, but no ordered place has yet been found in nature for his reflective intelligence.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinMy unpredictability is what separates me. If you move in so many ways, your opponent is not focused on what he’s doing. He’s focusing in on what you’re doing, and it freezes him. When they freeze and you hit, they shatter like glass.
Conor McGregorThe world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own existence. In some ways we are, in some ways we’re not. We are ruled by the forces of chance and coincidence.
Paul AusterThe function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education.
Martin Luther King, Jr.Fate pulls you in different directions.
Clint EastwoodNatural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Marcus AureliusMy name is Adam Sandler. I’m not particularly talented. I’m not particularly good-looking. And yet I’m a multi-millionaire.
Adam SandlerI’ve been in the Los Angeles Children’s Chorus since I was 8.
Billie EilishThere are some singers that know exactly when to go, and others hang on much too long and that is the same, that is the same with judges.
Ruth Bader GinsburgMy mother is a singer, my sisters all sing, my uncles are incredible singers and guitar players, so it’s just kind of been like my habitat.
Bruno MarsYou may be able to read Bernard Shaw’s plays, you may be able to quote Shakespeare or Voltaire or some new philosopher; but if you in yourself are not intelligent, if you are not creative, what is the point of this education?
Jiddu KrishnamurtiAll intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheMother Earth is very talented. She has produced Buddhas, bodhisattvas, great beings.
Thich Nhat HanhWhat makes us human, I think, is an ability to ask questions, a consequence of our sophisticated spoken language.
Jane GoodallI put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.
Oscar WildeThere is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.
Albert CamusWhy am I here? I’m not lucky. That’s God.
Mr. TThe Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent.
George OrwellThe Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected.
Henry David ThoreauIf you’ve got a talent, protect it.
Jim CarreyThere’s no better place in the world for technology start-ups than Silicon Valley; there’s such an incredible well of talent and capital and resources. The whole system is set up to foster the creation of new companies.
Elon MuskNo man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.
Henry AdamsAh! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it.
Jean-Paul SartreThe Internet offers opportunities that are more unique than ever before. With TV, I know I’m making 22 minutes; I know there’s a commercial in the middle. With the Internet, no one knows anything. No rules.
Jerry SeinfeldWhen the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.
Oscar WildeHumanity I love you because when you’re hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.
E. E. CummingsWe can continue to learn generation after generation and now is time to begin to learn how to love in a non-discriminatory way because we are intelligent enough, but we are not loving enough as a species.
Thich Nhat HanhThere is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.
Dwight D. EisenhowerIntelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
Salvador DaliI can well conceive a man without hands, feet, head. But I cannot conceive man without thought; he would be a stone or a brute.
Blaise PascalA career is born in public – talent in privacy.
Marilyn MonroeEverybody that I was in school with had an uncle or father in the law, and I started to realize that I was going to end up writing briefs for about ten years for these fellows who I thought I was smarter than. And I was kind of losing my feeling for that.
John WayneI think it’s a myth that American public or any other public is so stupid that they need to be constantly pricked.
Brian EnoTalent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There’s plenty of movement, but you never know if it’s going to be forward, backwards, or sideways.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.
Bertrand RussellNever trust anything that can think for itself if you can’t see where it keeps its brain.
J. K. RowlingI think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House – with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.
John F. KennedyIf you look at the movie ‚Belly,‘ I identify with Sincere the most. I am a gangster. I love my lady to death. I’m not in the game for the wrong reasons. I’m not in the game for the glory. I’m in the game to survive so the people that I love could be straight. I’m a highly intelligent individual.
Kevin GatesWe believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work.
John F. KennedyWar is a way of shattering to pieces… materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and… too intelligent.
George OrwellNo one can resist the idea of a crippled genius.
Stephen HawkingThe best work is not what is most difficult for you; it is what you do best.
Jean-Paul SartreThe people of Egypt are an intelligent people with a glorious history who left their mark on civilization.
Fidel CastroIn order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
Salvador DaliMost gods throw dice, but Fate plays chess, and you don’t find out til too late that he’s been playing with two queens all along.
Terry PratchettDemocracy is a daring concept – a hope that we’ll be best governed if all of us participate in the act of government. It is meant to be a conversation, a place where the intelligence and local knowledge of the electorate sums together to arrive at actions that reflect the participation of the largest possible number of people.
Brian EnoIt is with your aid, as the people, that I think we shall be able to preserve – not the country, for the country will preserve itself, but the institutions of the country – those institutions which have made us free, intelligent and happy – the most free, the most intelligent, and the happiest people on the globe.
Abraham LincolnKisses are a better fate than wisdom.
E. E. CummingsIn pop music, the public usually see the results – the hit records, the Grammy Awards performances, the concert tours – but not all the work that goes into getting into the spotlight. And not everyone realizes that, even if you have a lot of talent, chances are you won’t make it.
Bruno MarsOnly one in four jokes ever works, and I still can’t predict what people will laugh at.
Steven WrightIt’s a frustrating game because the situations so drastically change at different times over the course of the week, the game, the season. It feels like brain surgery at times.
Tom Brady