Best 2088 quotes in «genius quotes» category

The ultimate trick is to convince, persuade. Every single person out there is an idiot, but collectively they're a genius.

The unrecognized genius of our time.

The very greatest genius, after all, is not the greatest thing in the world, any more than the greatest city in the world is the country or the sky. It is the concentration of some of its greatest powers, but it is not the greatest diffusion of its might. It is not the habit of its success, the stability of its sereneness.

The vulgar call good fortune that which really is produced by the calculations of genius.

The wardrobe guy [of Blow] was a genius. He was so tapped into that period and he brought me the ugliest things I'd ever seen and then they were somehow beautiful.

The wisdom of providence is as much revealed in the rarity of genius, as in the circumstance that not everyone is deaf or blind.

The word-coining genius, as if thought plunged into a sea of words and came up dripping.

The working of revolutions misleads me no more; it is as necessary to our race as its waves to the stream, that it may not be a stagnant marsh. Ever renewed in its forms, the genius of humanity blossoms.

The words "genius" and "genuine" derive from the same root. The core of genius is authenticity.

The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius.

The world is not so much in need of new thoughts as that when thought grows old and worn with usage it should, like current coin, be called in, and, from the mint of genius, reissued fresh and new.

The world is poised on the cusp of an economic and cultural shift as dramatic as that of the Industrial Revolution. (OK, it doesn't take a genius, or even a politician, to figure out that big changes are afoot when we have a medium that lets someone throw up a virtual storefront on the Web and instantly gain access to the global market.)

The world is so average, it doesn't take much to be a genius, just do a little extra

The world thinks eccentricity in great things is genius, but in small things, only crazy.

The young man reveres men of genius, because, to speak truly, they are more himself than he is.

They misspelled 'party.' How evil genius can they be?

This is the method of genius, to ripen fruit for the crowd by those rays of whose heat they complain.

This is one of those instances in which the individual genius is found to consent, as indeed it always does, at last, with the universal.

This homage has been rendered not to me - for the Polish soil is fertile and does not lack better writers than me - but to the Polish achievement, the Polish genius.

This was Shakespeare's form ; Who walk'd in every path of human life, Felt every passion ; and to all mankind Doth now, will ever, that experience yield Which his own genius only could acquire.

To be endowed with strength by nature, to be actuated by the powers of the mind, and to have a certain spirit almost divine infused into you.

Though He did what he could to help the multitudes, He had to devote Himself primarily to a few men, rather than the masses, so that the masses could at last be saved. This was the genius of his strategy.

Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - either by themselves or by others.

Time was when genius was more precious than gold, but now to have nothing is monstrous barbarism.

To be bound by traditional martial art style or styles is the way of the mindless, enslaved martial artist. But to be inspired by the traditional martial art and to achieve further heights is the way of genius.

To be sure, dictators are crafty, evil geniuses with awesome firepower at their disposal. They are also brutally efficient at intimidation, terrorism, and mass slaughter. However, a force is able to dominate because the counterforce is either nonexistent or weak.

To complicate things in new ways, that is really very easy; but to see things in new ways, that is difficult and that is why genius is so rare.

Those who have wrought great changes in the world never succeeded by gaining over chiefs; but always by exciting the multitude. The first is the resource of intrigue and produces only secondary results, the second is the resort of genius and transforms the universe.

To build a city where it is impossible to build a city is madness in itself, but to build there one of the most elegant and grandest of cities is the madness of genius.

To create a housing shortage in a huge country, heavily wooded, with a small population -- ah, that's proof of pure political genius.

To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent.

Todd [Phillips] doesn't care. That's part of his genius as a director, he will say anything to anybody.

To do what others cannot do is talent. To do what talent cannot do is genius.

To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius.

To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.

To fine that light within--that's the genius of poetry.

To make the common marvelous is the test of genius.

Too often we forget that genius, too, depends upon the data within its reach, that even Archimedes could not have devised Edison's inventions.

To some extent, we all have quirks or idiosyncrasies, and some geniuses, because of how bright they are and how focused they are, may have liberal eccentricities, but they're not at a disabling level.

Towering genius...thirsts and burns for distinction; and, if possible, it will have it, whether at the expense of emancipating slaves or enslaving freeman.

To understand Mozart's contradictory qualities would indeed be to understand genius.

To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart; To make mankind, in conscious virtue bold, Live o'er each Seene, and be what they behold: For this the Tragic Muse first trod the stage.

Towering genius disdains a beaten path ... It scorns to tread in the footsteps of any predecessor, however illustrious. It thirsts for distinction.

Towering genius distains a beaten path.

To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart

To use many words to communicate few thoughts is everywhere the unmistakable sign of mediocrity. To gather much thought into few words stamps the man of genius.

Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.

Treason implies responsibility for something, control over something, influence upon something, knowledge of something. Treason in our time is a proof of genius. Why, I want to know, are not traitors decorated?

True genius repeats itself forever, and never repeats itself--one ever varied sense beams novelty and unity on all.

True genius does not fulfill expectations; true genius shatters it.