Best 2088 quotes in «genius quotes» category

If we could view Muhammad as we do any other important historical figure we would surely consider him to be one of the greatest geniuses the world has known.

If we stand for change, we can spark a popular movement with power, influence, magic and genius.

If we will maintain our hope and confidence in the genius of our people, they will work out this problem, and their ability and industry will bring us back to normal conditions.

If what we think of ourselves were true, the planet would overflow with geniuses.

If you are a genius and unsuccessful, everybody treats you as if you were a genius, but when you come to be successful, when you commence to earn money, when you are really successful, then your family and everybody no longer treats you like a genius, they treat you like a man who has become successful.

If you are a genius, you'll make your own rules, but if not - and the odds are against it - go to your desk no matter what your mood, face the icy challenge of the paper - write.

If you criticize a fine genius, the odds are that you are out of your reckoning, and, instead of the poet, are censuring your owncaricature of him.

If you go with that spirit, good things will come for you. If you go into it with an assumption that you're a genius and that you're entitled to something, it's a little tougher.

If you hype something and it succeeds, you're a genius - it wasn't a hype. If you hype it and it fails, then it was just a hype.

If you're a man and you ask questions, you're a genius; if you're a woman, you're difficult.

If you're going to impeach him, impeach [Donald Trump].If he did something wrong, arrest him. But don't cry the blues because you didn't get the vote out and this man had a genius way of winning the election.

If Zizou kept his temper, he would not be the genius that he is

If you're speaking of a fantasy player, then it has to be Leo Messi as he's so unpredictable. He's an absolute genius.

If you study a great work of art, you'll probably find the artist was a kind of genius. And geniuses are different to you and me.

Ignorance is not lack of intelligence, nor knowledge a proof of genius.

I hate endings. Just detest them. Beginnings are definitely the most exciting, middles are perplexing and endings are a disaster. … The temptation towards resolution, towards wrapping up the package, seems to me a terrible trap. Why not be more honest with the moment? The most authentic endings are the ones which are already revolving towards another beginning. That’s genius.

I guess a certain amount of temperament is expected of Chess geniuses

I had great affection for Dana Carvey, and I think we all thought, "Dana's the guy. There's the comic genius.

I have never been an innovator, a creative genius.

I have known many chess players, but among them there has been only one genius - Capablanca!

I have met with but one or two persons in the course of my life who have understood the art of Walking, that is, of taking walks,-who had a genius, so to speak, for sauntering.

I have no talent for making new friends, but oh such genius for fidelity to old ones.

I have nothing to declare but my genius, and this four-kilo bag of cocaine.

I have observed that vulgar readers almost always lose their veneration for the writings of the genius with whom they have had personal intercourse.

I have often noticed that the need for cash and the production of a masterpiece just don't coincide with me. Money will hit me at a big off-period and genius will hit me in starvation, that is, I often get the money when I don't think I deserve it and have been lolling around for days and days thinking the most abysmal thoughts.

I knew Steve Carell because of Little Miss Sunshine, so I felt very comfortable with him. Maybe he always does it to guest stars, but I felt as though he was being particularly funny with me, and particularly stretching the boundaries of improvisation. He's such a comic genius. I hate to use that word, because everyone throws it around, but Steve Carell is channeling something.

I just finished Colson Whitehead's "The Underground Railroad," which I think is a work of genius.

I have put my talent into writing, my genius I have saved for living.

I know of no genius but the genius of hard work.

I know of only six genuine comic geniuses in movie history; Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Groucho Marx & Harpo Marx, Peter Sellers, and W.C. Fields.

I know how to turn it on [computer]. I know where the disc goes: in that little slot but I can't always get it out. And I have three genius-level computer savvy kids who save my ass all the time. I'll tell you what I don't do. I don't watch the news on TV anymore. I get my news online. And like all of you, I Google whoever I want.

I like to say that Bobby Fischer was the greatest player ever. But what made Fischer a genius was his ability to blend an American freshness and pragmatism with Russian ideas about strategy

I love the beginning of Magnolia, the thing about the dealer. That scene is genius. Brilliantly acted.

I loved Stephen Wright, and I loved Mitch Hedberg, but they seemed like geniuses you could never emulate. You'd just be ripping them off.

I love Seth Rogen's line in which he talks about how you can be both a genius and decent at the same time.

I love Stewart Lee's 'Comedy Vehicle' on BBC2. The guy is a genius.

I love the South Park guys, Trey Parker and Matt Stone. They're geniuses. I throw that word around a lot, but I really do mean it.

I'm a misunderstood genius.

I'm a creative genius and there's no other way to word it.

I make no claim to being a business genius. You can make so much money in this business that it loses its value.

I'm a really, really, smart, multi-talented almost-genius, who's very annoying.

I mean, you're gonna be left behind if you don't appreciate the genius that is Meredith Vieira.

I'm equal part genius, equal part buffoon.

I mean, Scorsese's a genius, and that's one way of shooting.

I met a genius on the train today about 6 years old, he sat beside me and as the train ran down along the coast we came to the ocean and then he looked at me and said, it’s not pretty.

I'm going to live forever. Geniuses don't die.

I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.

I'm no prophet and I'm no genius, but I can only tell you what I seem to know. As a fan of television and the movies, I think it's all for the better.

I'm not a genius. I'm just a hard-working guy.

I'm not a god, I'm not a genius, I'm not a monk, I make non-design for non-consumers. I don't know if I do exist.