Best 2088 quotes in «genius quotes» category

My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.

My comic sense, although deliberately Americanized, is, in its intent, much closer related to the crazy wisdom of Zen monks and the goofy genius of Taoist masters than it is to, say, the satirical gibes on Saturday Night Live. It has both a literary and a metaphysical function.

My evil genius Procrastination has whispered me to tarry 'til a more convenient season.

My father was a management genius. But what I really wanted was a dad.

My father was an extremely brilliant man. I consider him a genius, and so he probably could have joined Mensa. But why? I got in it with a 79 I.Q. and the first day I said, "I'm getting the hell out of here quick!" They're all losers. All they do is talk about their IQ.

My favorite types of movies definitely aren't thrillers, but at the same time you can't deny the genius of Hitchcock's films.

My God, I'd love to smash into the casket of Dostoyevsky, grab that bony hand and scream at the remains, 'Well done, you god-damn genius.'

My job is to make a film that can sit as a standalone piece, that if it's the only Marvel film you see, it's a great film with a great story in and of itself. The lucky thing is that there's a bunch of geniuses who run Marvel that make sure, even if it's a standalone piece, that it's part of a great big jigsaw puzzle that could be appreciated as a whole as well.

My own experience is that a certain kind of genius among students is best brought out in bed.

Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.

M. Zola is determined to show that, if he has not got genius, he can at least be dull.

National enthusiasm is the nursery of genius.

Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature.

Nature alone is the master of true genius.

No communication or gift can exhaust genius or impoverish charity.

Never expect any recognition here--the system prohibits it. The cross is not affixed to the genius, no, the genius is affixed to the cross.

No author is a man of genius to his publisher.

No estimate is more in danger of erroneous calculations than those by which a man computes the force of his own genius.

Never imitate the eccentricities of genius, but toil after it in its truer flights. They are not so easy to follow, but they lead to higher regions.

Newton was the greatest genius that ever existed, and the most fortunate, for we cannot find more than once a system of the world to establish.

Nietzsche claimed that his genius was in his nostrils and I think that is a very excellent place for it to be.

Nobel prize-calibre geniuses often have certain core autistic features at their heart.

No company should depend on one person no matter how that person is smart or genius, whether it's Apple or News Corp, or Citibank or any other company in the world.

No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under a leadership composed of average human beings.

No man can exactly calculate the capacity of human genius and stupidity, nor the incapacity of will.

No man ever followed his genius till it misled him.

No man can be a genius in slapshoes and a flat hat.

No one can resist the idea of a crippled genius.

No one can bar me from joyfully proceeding on what the great masters have left us; after all, to rediscover everything again, should be understood to be unfounded. But one should however proceed on merit, and not simply repeat wat was. All genius, sincere, deserves his place, even though maybe later in life.

No one is obliged to be a genius, but everyone is obliged to participate.

No one respects a talent that is concealed.

Norman Mailer thinks William Burroughs is a genius, which I think is ludicrous beyond words. I don't think William Burroughs has an ounce of talent.

No one turns down a film with Woody; it's something everyone wants in their career as an important moment. He's such a comedic genius, without question, so I was thrilled.

Nor ought a genius less than his that writ attempt translation.

No science is speedily learned by the noblest genius without tuition.

Not everyone who has a savant skill I would equate with a genius.

Nothing is more piquant than when a man of genius possesses mannerisms; not so when they possess him -- this leads to spiritual petrification.

Nothing spoils a good party like a genius.

Not gifted with genius but honestly holding his experiences deep in his heart, he kept his simplicity and humanity.

Not nature, but the "genius of mankind," has knotted the hangman's noose with which it can execute itself at any moment.

Not only must the most privileged feel they are brothers and sisters of the most destitute, but the most destitute must feel as well that something within them makes them equal to the greatest sages and geniuses.

Now and then genius carries all before it, but not often. We have to climb slowly, with many slips and falls.

No woman has ever been an authentic genius of the stature of men, but that does not enrage me

Once genius is submerged by bureaucracy, a nation is doomed to mediocrity.

Now that I'm on Broadway, it's like NASA engineering with the costumes. I was very grateful for the slightly more high-tech ones in my show, 'Venus in Fur'; our costume designer Anita Yavich is kind of a genius.

Obsession is the wellspring of genius and madness.

Obsessive devotion to creating can spark that which is called 'genius.' Smarter or more gifted? The 'madness' is the insatiable drive to discover, achieve and create. Monomania can develop into 'genius,' as the individual delves deeper into the process leaving normal parameters behind.

Of course, a psychologist would find it more direct to study the inspired poet. He would make concrete studies of inspiration in individual geniuses. But for all that, would he experience the phenomena of inspiration? His human documentation gathered from inspired poets could hardly be related, except from the exterior, in an ideal of objective observations. Comparison of inspired poets would soon make us lose sight of inspiration.

Oh, I'm not a true genius. I'm a near genius. I would say I'm a short genius. I'd rather be tall and normal than a short genius.

On a train from Shimla to Delhi, there was a halt in one of the stations. The train stopped by for few minutes as usual. Sachin was nearing century, batting on 98. The passengers, railway officials, everyone on the train waited for Sachin to complete the century. This Genius can stop time in India!