Best 2088 quotes in «genius quotes» category

What you are is a human being, sensitive and alive, with genius inside of you. Not only that, but you are one of a kind. There has never been anyone like you before. You see the world in a unique way because you have unique gifts. That's the way nature made you. And it will feel like nothing less than fulfilling your destiny to follow those gifts to a rich and exciting life, full of purpose and meaning and enjoyment.

When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influences and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and his dying a cold horror.

When a man has displayed talent in some particular path, and left all competitors behind him in it, the world are too apt to give him credit for universality of genius, and to anticipate for him success in all that he undertakes.

When a man of genius appears in the world, it is immediately recognized by the fact that all the blockheads join forces against him.

When a real genius appeares in this world, you'll know him by the fact that all the fools have allied against him.

When a superior intellect and a psychopathic temperament coalesce in the same individual, we have the best possible condition for the kind of effective genius that gets into the biographical dictionaries.

When friends and acquaintances are telling you [that] you are a genius, before you accept their opinion, take a moment to remember what you always thought of their opinions in the past.

When I edit, I'm not from the school of Hello, I'm a genius, so everybody shut up. I'm from the school of Let's play it once in front of an audience, and then I'll tell you where it is going

When I had to fill in my immigration papers, I gave my age as 19, and my profession as genius; I added that I had nothing to declare except my talent.

When I met my first savant in 1962, I was impressed by the abilities in these youngsters who had severe disabilities. They appeared to me to be islands of genius in the sea of disability. So I've maintained that word picture since that time, of these islands of genius that are so striking and so jarring when you see them, especially in people who have severe disability.

When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.

When leadership rises to genius it has the power of transforming, of transforming experience into power. And that is what experience is for, to be made into power. The great leader creates as well as directs power.

When I was about twelve I used to think I must be a genius, but nobody's noticed. If there is such a thing as a genius, I am one, and if there isn't I don't care.

When I worked as an editor, I read new novels being published in India every few days. They excited me tremendously for the first fifty pages or so, and boasted some true linguistic genius at times, but none of those writers could occupy more than one mind at once.

When I wrote 'My Humps,' I said, 'This is the stupidest thing ever,' but in a good way. I always wondered what it must be like to be a girl, always gettin' pulled on. Maybe she's the smartest genius on the planet, but she's rackin' double Ds with a 26-inch waist and a big ol' ass and no one's ever gonna see her like that because that's the way the world is today.

When [Vladimir] Putin goes out and tells everybody - and you talk about a relationship, but he says Donald Trump is going to win and Donald Trump is a genius, and then I have people saying you should disavow. I said, I'm going to disavow that?

When the body is assailed by the strong force of time and the limbs weaken from exhausted force, genius breaks down, and mind and speech fail. [Lat., Ubi jam valideis quassatum est viribus aevi Corpus, et obtuseis ceciderunt viribus artus, Claudicat ingenium delirat linguaque mensque.]

When thou seest an eagle, thou seest a portion of genius; lift up thy head!

When things don't go well, it helps to think of yourself as a genius and the rest of the world as a bunch of idiots.

Who in the same given time can produce more than others has vigor; who can produce more and better, has talents; who can produce what none else can, has genius.

When you drink coffee, you become very focused, and in fact, the key to creative genius is to be defocused.

When you realize there are geniuses out there and you'd be a journeyman... that's not good enough. I'd rather be the person helping those who are one in a billion get their vision out.

Whether it's Dorothy Parker or Oscar Wilde, they're brilliant with genius bon mots. Of course, I find them extraordinary.

While Genius was thus wasting his strength in eccentric flights, I saw a person of a very different appearance, named Application.

When you're onstage with Chris Rock, anything can happen. He is one of the greatest comic geniuses we've ever seen.

when you think you've got hold of a genius ... you can't be sure whether it's a spark of the divine fire or a mere flash in the pan.

Where power is absent we may find the robe of genius, but we miss the throne.

Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence.

Why shouldn't I be introspective? We dont' make sense." "Neither do Chocolate and Peanut Butter, but it somehow works." He says "Somehow the mixture of two things is genius.

Why would you try to kill this guy, Kevin? He's a genius. Nuts to your truce.

Will and energy sometimes prove greater than either genius or talent or temperament.

Wit and humor belong to genius alone.

Winston Churchill - fifty per cent genius, fifty per cent bloody fool.

With some songs, I have written narratives or I've tried to carry it through, but generally the things that were more genius, as far as I was concerned, were not that.

With the stones we cast at them, geniuses build new roads with them.

With the proper training, I could've been an evil genius.

With the offspring of genius, the law of parturition is reversed; the throes are in the conception, the pleasure in the birth.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is the only musician who had as much knowledge asgenius, and as much genius as knowledge.

Wit lives in the present, but genius survives the future.

Wit is often a mask. If you tear it you will find either genius irritated or cleverness juggling.

Woman, in short, has an unconscious life, man a conscious life, and the genius the most conscious life.

Wit is absolutely sociable spirit or aphoristic genius.

Wit is the god of moments, but Genius is the god of ages.

Work is honorable. It is good therapy for most problems. It is the antidote for worry. It is the equalizer for deficiency of native endowment. Work makes it possible for the average to approach genius. What we may lack in aptitude, we can make up for in performance. . . .

Women of genius commonly have masculine faces, figures and manners. In transplanting brains to an alien soil God leaves a little of the original earth clinging to the roots.

Woody Allen is a genius. His films are wonderful. He's poetic, but he's also a critic. He artfully steps back from a social setting and criticizes it without - I suspect - without letting himself be vulnerable to it.

Would you like to know the great drama of my life? It is that I have put my genius into my life...I have put only my talent into my works.

Writers ... I think ... live on that fine line between insanity and genius.

You can do something with talent, but nothing with genius.

Yes, I think I am a genius, but not a rebel.