Best 2088 quotes in «genius quotes» category

An updated notion of genius would have to center around one's mastery of information and its dissemination.

Any damn fool can put on a deal, but it takes genius, faith and perseverance to create a brand.

Any complex activity, if it is to be carried on with any degree of virtuosity, calls for appropriate gifts of intellect and temperament. If they are outstanding and reveal themselves in exceptional achievements, their possessor is called a 'genius'.

Anybody who can do anything in Leicester but make a jumper has got to be a genius.

Anybody who is stupid enough often stumbles on an effect that could never be thought up by the most brilliant. I suspect that there is a thing which you might call the genius of stupidity.

Anyone can be a genius, if they pick just one specific subject and study it diligently just 15 minutes each day.

Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there.

Anything imagined can be made real ... given sufficient genius.

Anyway, madness and genius. They're the disturbed pals of the human condition. The Bonnie and Clyde, the Thelma and Louise, the baking soda and vinegar. Insanity just walks alongside the brilliant like some creepy, insistent shadow.

A person of genius should marry a person of character.

A person with average talent, ambition and education, can outstrip a genius in society, if that person has focused goals.

A prince or general can best demonstrate his genius by managing a campaign exactly to suit his objectives and his resources, doing neither too much nor too little.

Apple has lost a visionary and creative genius, and the world has lost an amazing human being.

A profound common sense is the best genius for statesmanship.

Aquarius[es] are social butterflies, humanitarians, geniuses: Einstein was one.

A profound dislike for merely absorbing knowledge and a compulsion to learn by doing are among the most reliable signs of genius.

Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.

A product is usually created to improve people's lives; otherwise, why buy it? I'm no genius, but I am an American, and gosh-darnit, I consume, so I know what I'm talking about.

Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Only engage, and then the mind grows heated. Begin, and then the work will be completed.

Artistic judgments are silly if expressed as dogmas, at least until we get an "artometer" which can measure objectively how many micro-michelangelos or kilo-homers of genius a given artifact has in it.

Aristoteles quidem ait: 'Omnes ingeniosos melancholicos esse.' Aristotle says that all men of genius are melancholy.

Art is a point of view, and a genius way of looking at things.

Artistic genius is an expansion of monkey imitativeness.

As a bull market continues, almost anything you buy goes up. It makes you feel that investing in stocks is a very easy and safe and that you're a financial genius.

As an actor, I really like Philip Seymour Hoffman. I think he's a genius.

As actors, we deal with rejection so much more than any other business. So I don't care how much of a genius you are, if you don't have the propensity to be able to get back up every time you get knocked down, then you're not going to survive.

A savant, by definition, is somebody who has a disability and, along with that disability, has some remarkable ability. Prodigies and geniuses have the remarkable abilities that the savant shows, but they do not have a disability. So, by definition, a savant includes someone with a disability, and a prodigy or genius are people who have these remarkable skills but they do not have a disability.

As a rule, I think they are quite impossible. Geniuses talk so much, don't they? Such a bad habit! And they are always thinking about themselves, when I want them to be thinking about me.

As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it

As Baudelaire said it so beautifully, Emma Bovary is an androgynous character. She cannot be reduced to a gender or a sociological type. She represents something bigger than herself. That was the genius of Flaubert: the ability to combine the general and the particular.

As Fallingwater demonstrates, Wright's genius was always specific, but also always lively, always daring.

As far as me knowing if Frank was a genius - in those days, I thought Einstein was the only genius around.

As Meander says, "For our mind is God;" and as Heraclitus, "Man's genius is a deity.

A sniper is like a genius - it’s not enough to be one, you have to be one at something.

As she walked along she dramatized the night. There was about it a wild, lawless charm that appealed to a certain wild, lawless strain hidden deep in Emily’s nature—the strain of the gypsy and the poet, the genius and the fool.

As monarchs have a right to call in the specie of a state, and raise its value, by their own impression; so are there certain prerogative geniuses, who are above plagiaries, who cannot be said to steal, but, from their improvement of a thought, rather to borrow it, and repay the commonwealth of letters with interest again; and may wore properly be said to adopt, than to kidnap a sentiment, by leaving it heir to their own fame.

As what we call genius arises out of the disproportionate power and size of a certain faculty, so the great difficulty lies in harmonizing with it the rest of the character.

A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius.

A sense of timing is the mark of a genius.

As we each express our natural genius, we all elevate our world.

At home I have a Tibetan terrier. I'm still not sure if he's a genius or very thick. It's a fine line.

A worker without genius is better than a genius who won't work.

A writer writes with his genius; an artist paints with hers; everyone who creates operates from this sacramental center.

"Baby," I said. "I'm a genius but nobody knows it but me.

Bach in general was so good with the violin. He just finds the genius way around his music on the instrument. When you think about the fact that the instrument has changed significantly since he wrote for it and his music still really works, it's brilliant. He was definitely ahead of his time. There's something so satisfying about his music. It's beautifully organized and emotional at the same time. I find it highly exciting.

As we discern a fine line between crank and genius, so also (and unfortunately) we must acknowledge an equally graded trajectory from crank to demagogue. When people learn no tools of judgment and merely follow their hopes, the seeds of political manipulation are sown.

Beerbohm was a genius of the purest kind. He stands at the summit of his art.

Before thy undertaking of any design, weigh the glory of thy action with the danger of the attempt; if the glory outweigh the danger, it is cowardice to neglect it; if the danger exceed the glory, it is rashness to attempt it; if the balances stand poised, let thy own genius cast them.

A talent for drama is not a talent for writing, but is ability to articulate human relationships.

Beauty and Genius must be kept afar if one would avoid becoming their slave.