A Quote by Sam Kean

Never underestimate spite as a motivator for genius. — © Sam Kean
Never underestimate spite as a motivator for genius.
You can never underestimate the amount of energy and frequency you must give to vision casting. You can never underestimate it.
We need to practice acting in spite of fear, in spite of doubt, in spite of worry, in spite of uncertainty, in spite of inconvenience, in spite of discomfort, and even to practice acting when we're not in the mood to act.
Never underestimate their intelligence, always underestimate their knowledge.
Never underestimate a man's ability to underestimate a woman.
I know the Muslim psychology. It is all pomposity and bravado. I give you my word that if Islam is ridiculed publicly and systematically, it will be defeated. Shame is a great motivator as well as deterrent. Do not underestimate the power of ridicule. This is serious stuff not a laughing matter.
I never underestimate my opponent, but I never underestimate my talents.
Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.
For in spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody.
God's Word is pure and sure, in spite of the devil, in spite of your fear, in spite of everything.
Universality is the distinguishing mark of genius. There is no such thing as a special genius, a genius for mathematics, or for music, or even for chess, but only a universal genius. The genius is a man who knows everything without having learned it.
But she has gathered that Americans, in spite of their public declarations of affection, in spite of their miniskirts and bikinis, in spite of their hand-holding on the street and lying on top of each other on the Cambridge Common, prefer their privacy.
The man of genius possesses, like everything else, the complete female in himself; but woman herself is only a part of the Universe, and the part can never be the whole; femaleness can never include genius. This lack of genius on the part of woman is inevitable because woman is not a monad, and cannot reflect the Universe.
I never gave up, even when people told me I'd never make it; Never underestimate the heart of a champion.
Cats virtually always underestimate human intelligence just as we, perhaps, underestimate theirs.
Genius is its own reward; for the best that one is, one must necessarily be for oneself. . . . Further, genius consists in the working of the free intellect., and as a consequence the productions of genius serve no useful purpose. The work of genius may be music, philosophy, painting, or poetry; it is nothing for use or profit. To be useless and unprofitable is one of the characteristics of genius; it is their patent of nobility.
The critic does his utmost to blight genius in its infancy; that which rises in spite of him he will not see; and then he complains of the decline of literature.
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