Organizational Behaviour: A Modern Approach
... genius comes too strongly and insists that everyone keep pace with him , his associates need to stand up to him and refuse to take his bulldozing . A genius prefers opposition to everyone acceding to his dictums and then complaining ...
Invisible No More
... genius , a personal blessing of protection and inspiration that remained faithful and present from life's beginning to its end . Indi- viduals both worshiped and celebrated their genius , offering " libations of wine , incense , and ...
Creativity in Research and Invention in the Physical Sciences
... GENIUSES . 842p . , illus . , Stanford , Calif . , Stanford University Press , 1926 . ( Genetic Studies of Genius , vl . II ) 211 Case studies are included . Delacroix , H. L'INVENTION ET LE GÉNIE . ( INVEN- TION AND GENIUS ) . In Dumas ...
Dictionary of Untranslatables
... genius to the concrete one, ob- tained by metonymy, of the “man of genius,” who takes up a place in ideal human typology, alongside the saint and the hero. V. How Germany Takes over the French Word, in Order to Make Genius Its Own The ...
The Stanford Dictionary of Anglicised Words and Phrases
Charles August Maude Fennell. 416 GENIUS * genius , Lat . pl . genii , sb .: Lat .: tutelar deity ( of a place , person , or object ) , disposition , natural inclination , natural powers of mind . I. a tutelar deity , a guardian spirit ...
The Double-dealer
... genius of the proposition — that inasmuch as a and suicide . One might work a pass- genius is something of a lunatic , a able epigram out of the thought that lunatic is necessarily something of a often genius must prove its existence ...
Treasury of Wisdom, Wit and Humor, Odd Comparisons and Proverbs
... genius , and one of the marks which distinguish genius from talent . NOT INHERENT . Talent , lying in the understanding , is of ten inherent ; genius , being the action of reason and imagination , rarely or never . Coleridge ...
Report and Proceedings of the Belfast Natural History & Philosophical Society
... genius was a form of mental derangement , but would anyone say that Burns , Shake- speare , Rembrant , Newton , or Napoleon showed any form of insanity ? He ( Sir John ) feared that their views ... genius Some Theories of Genius . 21.
Thorvaldsen: His Life and Works
... genius is a dog , the symbol of fidelity . The sword , the helmet , the buckler , the banner - instruments of ... Genius of Poetry , with the lyre and the plectrum . Genius of Tragedy , with the club and tragic mask . Genius of ...
Shakespeare
... genius , in its highest and purest instances , is a sort of unfallen intellect ; so that from its pre - established harmony with the laws of mental being it goes right spontaneously . Sophocles comprehended the whole of what is meant by ...
Principles of Secondary Education
... geniuses . The statement , " Genius will out , " is not wholly true , for circumstances often submerge the genius in a person . Many a " genius discovery " is due to chance . Surely happy chance is a dangerous process of finding the genius ...
The complete works of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. by J.A. Harrison. Monticello ed
... genius - that the genius which all men instantaneously acknowledge as such - which acts upon individuals , as well as upon the mass , by a species of magnetism incomprehensible but irresistible and never resisted that this genius which ...
The Westminster Review
... genius do not grow like blackberries on every bramble - bush , they considered that such men , if they were lucky enough to get them , must be taken with all their drawbacks . They were not inconsistent enough to admit that genius is an ...
The Encyclopædia Britannica
... genius " is confined . The attempt , however , to define either quality , or to discriminate accurately between them , has given rise to continual controversy , and there is no agreement as to the nature of either ; and the commonly ...
The Prince of Tennis, Vol. 25
... Genius 212 : The Chances of Winning 27 Genius 213 : Thoughts 47 Genius 214 : Seishun Drops Three ?! 67 Genius 215 : Not Allowed to Lose 89 Genius 216 : Akaya Kirihara vs. Shusuke Fuji 107 Genius 217 : A Trap at a Moment of Weaknes 127 ...
London Society
... Genius may be misunderstood and talent may be unappreciated , for neither genius nor talent necessarily combine cleverness , and it is the combination which commands success . Chatterton was a genius , but he was not clever ; he had ...
Public Opinion
... Genius , when it is allied to them , is really irresistible . Genius in the rough has no chance against it . It is a pity that genius in the rough will not re- cognise this fact , instead of trying to persuade itself that money and ...
The Management of Infancy, Physiological and Moral
... genius are rarely so remarkable for talent as themselves ; but I deduce an opposite conclusion from the fact , and maintain that these very cases afford strong proof of the reality of the father's influence , and ought to be warnings ...
Liberty Review
... Genius ; and the philistine is the heir of Genius , which bequeaths to him perpetually its most precious treasures . All this makes Genius look insignificant ; but then Genius , like virtue , is its own reward ; it must content itself ...
The National Review
... genius as he was , these things giving " the decisive bent to his genius -to write such a book as David Copperfield , a book which is in very great part autobiographical . It is , in fact , just the sort of book which a genius like ...