#geniuses

No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under a leadership composed of average human beings. ↗

— Peter Drucker

#along #average #beings #composed #geniuses

I've run into certain geniuses of individualism - they are very few and far between - who live their lives completely on their own terms; they are very powerful and have a great amount of happiness. We all should aspire to that. ↗

— David Duchovny

#aspire #between #certain #completely #far

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them. ↗

— Albert Einstein

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Science is not a heartless pursuit of objective information. It is a creative human activity, its geniuses acting more as artists than as information processors. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#activity #artists #creative #geniuses #heartless

Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#butcher #dream #equal #escape #geniuses

Geniuses always think it's easier than we make it out to be. ↗

— James Lipton

#easier #geniuses #make #out #than

They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#geniuses #great #mostly #mothers #sad

Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it. ↗

— Alan Perlis

#complexity #fools #geniuses #ignore #pragmatists

We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in colour and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types. ↗

— J. B. Priestley

#administrative #colour #course #fire #fit

The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages over the latter, even where geniuses are equal. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

#difference #education #equal #even #former