Best 2088 quotes in «genius quotes» category

The news we hear, for the most part, is not news to our genius. It is the stalest repetition.

Theodore Roosevelt regarded leadership as his one gift, the area in which he might be considered to possess genius. He presented his views on leadership throughout his voluminous writings. He intended for future writers to study them with an eye toward action, as he himself had done of historic figures.

The obscurest sayings of the truly great are often those which contain the germ of the profoundest and most useful truths. Genius rapidly traverses the living present to bury itself in the deepest mysteries of the universe; often making the grandest discoveries at a single glance.

The only way you can get good, unless you're a genius, is to copy. That's the best thing. Just steal.

The Painter who seeks popularity in Art closes the door upon his own genius.

The particulars of life do not matter to the artist; they merely provide him with the opportunity to lay bare his genius.

The perfection of conversational intercourse is when the breeding of high life is animated by the fervor of genius.

The persecution of genius fosters its influence.

The philosopher is not an apologist; apologetic concern, as Karl Barth (the one living theologian of unquestionable genius) has rightly insisted, is the death of serious theologizing, and I would add, equally of serious work in the philosophy of religion.

The Plagiarism of orators is the art, or an ingenious and easy mode, which some adroitly employ to change, or disguise, all sorts of speeches of their own composition, or that of other authors, for their pleasure, or their utility; in such a manner that it becomes impossible even for the author himself to recognise his own work, his own genius, and his own style, so skilfully shall the whole be disguised.

The poets scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death.

the possession of wealth, and especially the inheritance of wealth, seems almost invariably to sterilize genius.

The power of applying attention, steady and undissipated, to a single object, is the sure mark of superior genius.

The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as 'Soho' poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of a genius and no talent.

The prevailing view is that geniuses are largely built, not born.

The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.

The problem with Ireland is that it's a country full of genius, but with absolutely no talent.

The principal mark of genius is not perfection, but originality.

The probability that a genius can do stupid things is much higher than the probability that a stupid can do genius things.

The productions of a great genius, with many lapses and inadvertences, are infinitely preferable to the works of an inferior kind of author which are scrupulously exact, and conformable to all the rules of correct writing.

The purpose of America is to unleash the full talent and genius of every individual.

The proportion of genius to the vulgar is like one to a million.

There are few words in the music business or in art that I'll say people or some writers are overgenerous with words like 'legend' or 'genius', 'he's a pioneer' and all of that.

The real geniuses know where their writing has to be good and where they can get away with some mediocrity.

The real wonder is not that one man should be a genius, but that every man should not be.

There are lots of cycles to markets - boom and bust - and also in perceptions of people. The conventional wisdom of Steve Case as genius or fool was highly cyclical. The truth was always in the middle.

There are no laws by which we can write Iliads.

There are more than a few people, especially among the cultural élite, who still publicly regret the fact that Germany sent Einstein packing, without realizing that it was a much greater crime to kill little Hans Cohn from around the corner, even though he was no genius.

There are no rules. You can write a story, if you wish, with no conflict, no suspense, no beginning, middle or end. Of course, you have to be regarded as a genius to get away with it, and that's the hardest part - convincing everybody you're a genius.

There are people who are avaricious parasites. There are psychotic geniuses in control of this planet, and to them human beings are only a commodity to be bought and sold and traded.

There are plenty of clever young writers. But there is too much genius, not enough talent.

There are probably brilliant people, geniuses, alive today who don't even know how to say, "Hello, how do you do?" because their minds are absorbed with electronic images.

There are two things that kill a genius - a fatal disease and contentment.

There are so many cliches associated with mental health - such as the 'fine line between lunacy and genius' - which are, on the whole, a load of rubbish.

There are two types of genius; one which above all begets and wants to beget, and another which prefers being fertilized and giving birth.

There has never been any great genius without a spice of madness.

There have been countless changes in the long history of art. The most significant have been brought about by the genius of a single artist.

There have only been two authentic geniuses in the world, Willie Mays and Willie Shakespeare and I think you'd better put Shakespeare first, darling.

There is a fine line between insanity and genius.

There is a genius of a nation, which is not to be found in the numerical citizens, but which characterizes the society.

There is no element of genius without some form of madness.

There is a thin line between genius and insanity, and in Larry's (MacPhail) case it was sometimes so thin you could see him drifting back and forth.

There is no balking genius. Only death can silence it or hinder.

There is no genius where there is not simplicity.

There is no greater consolation for mediocrity than that the genius is not immortal.

There is no hierarchy of values any more. Real progress is due mainly to human genius, and that's rare, and usually stems from a real elite, from a hierarchy.

There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling.

There is no genius free from some tincture of madness

There is no genius who hasn't a touch of insanity.

There is no limit to the ingenuity of man if it is properly and vigorously applied under conditions of peace and justice.