A Quote by Thomas M. Disch
Genius is an infinite capacity for pain.
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Genius is play, and man's capacity for achieving genius is infinite, and many may achieve genius only through play.
Talent is the infinite capacity for taking pains. Genius is the infinite capacity for achievement without taking any pains at all.
Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.
Genius is merely the capacity for taking infinite pains.
We can all be geniuses because one definition of genius is the infinite capacity for taking pains.
Why do we have such a finite capacity for pleasure but an infinite one for pain?
The best minds come from the most unexpected faces and places. There is no image for intelligence or genius. Genius is something that cannot be seen. It cannot be produced or manufactured. It is something that even the true genius thinks is unattainable. The genius recognizes he’s just a small pea in a sea of infinite atoms. Knowledge is as infinite as the universe. The man who claims to know all, only reveals to all that he really knows nothing.
They say that genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains," he remarked with a smile. "It's a very bad definition, but it does apply to detective work.
Man (and woman) has an infinite capacity for self-development. Equally, he has an infinite capacity for self-destruction. A human being may be clinically alive and yet, despite all appearances, spiritually dead.
At Westboro, the depictions of hell are extremely vivid. The only thing that changes in hell, according to the church, is your capacity to feel pain. As the capacity to feel pain increases, so does the pain. It's absolutely terrifying. I believed God was going to curse me for having left this group of people.
The East German manages to combine a Teutonic capacity for bureauracy with a Russian capacity for infinite delay
The infinity of All ever bringing forth anew, and even as infinite space is around us, so is infinite potentiality, capacity, reception, malleability, matter.
What is it men love in Genius, but its infinite hope, which degrades all it has done? Genius counts all its miracles poor and short. Its own idea it never executed.
In depression, your capacity to feel just flattens and disappears and what you feel is pain and a kind of pain that you can't describe to anybody. So it's an isolating pain, a completely isolating pain.
Thoroughness characterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains. All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinite painstaking, even to the minutest detail.
Ahimsa means infinite love, which again means infinite capacity for suffering.
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