#genius

She was a genius, my mother. ↗

— Sally Kirkland

#mother #she

Like many businessmen of genius he learned that free competition was wasteful, monopoly efficient. And so he simply set about achieving that efficient monopoly. ↗

— Mario Puzo

#achieving #businessmen #competition #efficient #free

Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way. ↗

— William James

#genius #little #means #more #perceiving

Rising genius always shoots out its rays from among the clouds, but these will gradually roll away and disappear as it ascends to its steady luster. ↗

— Washington Irving

#among #ascends #away #clouds #disappear

The only good political movement I've seen lately was Occupy Wall Street. They had no leaders, which was genius. But unfortunately it always ends up with some hippy playing a flute. ↗

— Johnny Rotton

#ends #flute #genius #good #had

The world is not so much in need of new thoughts as that when thought grows old and worn with usage it should, like current coin, be called in, and, from the mint of genius, reissued fresh and new. ↗

— Alexander Smith

#coin #current #fresh #genius #grows

Dali is like a man who hesitates between talent and genius, or, as one might once have said, between vice and virtue. ↗

— Andre Breton

#dali #genius #hesitates #like #man

I am the farthest thing from a computer genius. ↗

— Jonathan Brandis

#computer #farthest #genius #i #i am

It takes application, a fine sense of value, and a powerful community-spirit for a people to have serious leisure, and this has not been the genius of the Americans. ↗

— Paul Goodman

#been #fine #genius #leisure #people

A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery. ↗

— James Joyce

#errors #genius #his #makes #man