Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.

It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work.

Genius without education is like silver in the mine.

I can hold my own when it comes to burping. I’ve got a good feeling that I could win a championship.

Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.

Common sense is the genius of humanity.

Some artists just ruin their voices because they don’t know any better.

The capacity of the female mind for studies of the highest order cannot be doubted, having been sufficiently illustrated by its works of genius, of erudition, and of science.

I like the discipline of well-cut, impeccable clothes. I think it’s a very healthy discipline.

Cause I’m a musician, I’m not really good at posing and being a model, like, modeling.

A career is born in public – talent in privacy.

Football in itself is a grand game for developing a lad physically and also morally, for he learns to play with good temper and unselfishness, to play in his place and ‚play the game,‘ and these are the best of training for any game of life.

Ability is nothing without opportunity.

You know, God gave me a gift to do other things besides play the game of basketball.

Love is an adventure and a conquest. It survives and develops, like the universe itself, only by perpetual discovery.

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.

The quote-unquote ‚description‘ of a leading man was once your tall, handsome man with the build of whatever, almost a trophy to some degree. I think now it’s about making a leading man what you want a leading man to be. In this day, you can’t deny talent. You look at Jonah Hill, you look at Zach Galifianakis, you look at myself.

I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.

There is moderation even in excess.

The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.

I’ve never fought with anyone. A lot of people talk to me, and they’re like, ‚Oh, you would have been fighting all the time when you were younger,‘ but I’m like, ‚I never fought with anyone because I always knew that if I hurt myself, I might lose important time in my cricket career,‘ so I never got into any fight, ever in my life.

The universal utilization of water power and its long-distance transmission will supply every household with cheap power and will dispense with the necessity of burning fuel. The struggle for existence being lessened, there should be development along ideal rather than material lines.

The spread of civilisation may be likened to a fire; first, a feeble spark, next a flickering flame, then a mighty blaze, ever increasing in speed and power.

It’s very difficult to regulate yourself, and if you learn to do that, well, it starts to spill over.

Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered – either by themselves or by others.

I think the positive competition between states in India is one of the most positive dynamics that the country has.

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you’ve conquered human nature.

The development of civilization and industry in general has always shown itself so active in the destruction of forests that everything that has been done for their conservation and production is completely insignificant in comparison.

I’m sure that at no point in my life could I ever have shown the kind of focus and discipline and commitment necessary to work a station at elBulli or Le Bernardin. No. That ain’t me.

Sacrifice, discipline and prayer are essential. We gain strength through God’s word. We receive grace from the sacrament. And when we fumble due to sin – and it’s gonna happen – confession puts us back on the field.

It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people’s lives.

Running taught me valuable lessons. In cross-country competition, training counted more than intrinsic ability, and I could compensate for a lack of natural aptitude with diligence and discipline. I applied this in everything I did.

Those who today always look for disciplinarian solutions, those who long for an exaggerated doctrinal ‚security,‘ those who stubbornly try to recover a past that no longer exists – they have a static and inward-directed view of things. In this way, faith becomes an ideology among other ideologies.

Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.

I think any activity you have your kids in, you’re all trying to live vicariously through them. And you’re jealous of the kid that’s naturally more talented or has the facility, the body, the genes, or the God-given talent. People get jealous of that.

Giving responsibility is the key to success with boys, especially with the rowdiest and most difficult boys.

Genius is a potential that lives within you and every other human being. You have many moments of genius in your lifetime. These are the times when you have a uniquely brilliant idea and implement it even if only you are aware of how fantastic it is.

Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.

Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition.

From the beginning of my rap career, since I was seen and heard, I always had a store.

If I had never ventured beyond being a stand-up comic, then I would be sitting in my house today working on my Leonardo DiCaprio impression.

The ideas associated with the problems of the development of science, as far as I can see by looking around me, are not of the kind that everyone appreciates.

Man who invented the hamburger was smart; man who invented the cheeseburger was a genius.

Puerto Rico’s relationship with music is everything. It’s an island full of talent and if you grow up there, you grow up living and breathing music.

Chinese people need to be controlled; otherwise, they will do whatever they want.

To be honest, I never really considered myself to be too much of an actress. So, whenever I get the chance to do music, I’m always, like, just in it. It’s like, ‚Oh my God, I finally get to do this. I’m so happy.‘

I was probably tall as a child, but I just stopped growing.

Who’s to say what’s a good voice and not a good voice?

Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.

While discipline and freedom seem like they sit on opposite sides of the spectrum, they are actually very connected.

Acting is the most minor of gifts. After all, Shirley Temple could do it when she was four.

I’m trying to do what Eddie Murphy did for his generation. You have to show people, ‚I’m different. I’m not just a comedian.‘ I’m trying to become a rock star.

There are people in the world who have skills and strength and talent that I will never have. Never. These notions that you can ‚be whatever you want to be as long as you want it bad enough‘ are not true. They are fairy tales.

Nothing recedes like progress.

In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way.

It’s like a muscle – if you stop going to the gym or stop running, you get weak. The military teaches you these great values, but we don’t keep up the discipline on our own, and we lose it. So wherever you go, keep that discipline up.

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one’s family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one’s own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.

Live your life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift. There is nothing small in it. Far the greatest things grow by God’s law out of the smallest. But to live your life, you must discipline it.

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.