Best 2088 quotes in «genius quotes» category

I think Pans Labyrinth is genius.

I think Stephen Sondheim is a - and I hardly ever use this word - but this is as close as it gets to a genius.

I think that what was genius about the politics of Trump's campaign is that he focused on workers and he focused on jobs. It wasn't about the wealthy entrepreneur with a private jet. It wasn't about a government handout. It was about the folks in the middle.

I think the combination of genius and celebrity, in the case of Bobby Fischer, was a dangerous cocktail.

I think the evidence is pretty clear. If you look at various characteristics of carnivores versus herbivores, it doesn't take a genius to see where humans line up.

I think Woody Allen is pretty much of a genius. I'm thinking of filmmakers every century or two, but I've never had the luck to meet them. People who create their absolutely own world and are totally inimitable.

I think Tony Fucile, who did the illustrations [for Bink & Gollie], is an absolute genius. I've never met him.

I think Yelena Akhtiorskaya is a genius. What she manages to do, linguistically and emotionally, in the span of a single sentence, is astonishing.

I thought it was a stroke of genius that Hans Selye used the word stress, because it's true that if you don't know how to be in wise relationship to life, certain health consequences are bound to happen. If you stand up 12 hours a day on an assembly line, or constantly tell yourself life is not worth living, the body will respond in certain somewhat predictable ways.

I think without a doubt, that what is called "financial genius" is merely a rising market.

It is characteristic of genius to be hopeful and aspiring. It is characteristic of genius to break up the artificial arrangements of conventionalism, and to view mankind in true perspective, in their gradations of inherent rather than of adventitious worth. Genius is therefore essentially democratic, and has always been so.

It is a mark of genius not to astonish but to be astonished.

It is characteristic of genius to be hopeful and aspiring.

It is hard to overstate the debt we owe to the men and women of genius.

It is easy to be seen as either a genius or a crank. If you have a Ph.D., at least you somewhat lower the chances that you will be seen as a crank.

It is easy to see that what is best written or done by genius in the world, was no man's work but came by wide social labor, whena thousand wrought like one, sharing the same impulse.

It is impossible that a genius - at least a literary genius - can ever be discovered by his intimates; they are so close to him that he is out of focus to them and they can't get at his proportions; they can't perceive that there is any considerable difference between his bulk and their own.

It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists.

It is less difficult for a woman to obtain celebrity by her genius than to be forgiven for it.

It is not in the outward and visible world of material life that the Celtic genius of Wales or Ireland can at this day hope to count for much; it is in the inward world of thought and science.What it has been, what is has done, what it will be or will do, as a matter of modern politics.

It is necessary for the welfare of society that genius should be privileged to utter sedition, to blaspheme, to outrage good taste, to corrupt the youthful mind, and generally to scandalize one's uncles.

It is not for nothing that a man's best friends sigh when he marries, especially if he is a man of genius.

It is not what talents or genius a man has, but how he is to his talents, that constitutes friendship and character. The man thatstands by himself, the universe stands by him also.

It is possible that the production of genius is reserved to a limited period of mankind's history.

It is only occasional that talent becomes genius - radiating sparks, brilliance, energy, and charismatic magnetism... such a talent was Janis Joplin.

It is personality with a penny's worth of talent. Error which chances to rise above the commonplace.

It is quite possible for the vulgar to be funny, but to succeed, it must rise to a certain genius.

It is often said that in Ireland there is an excess of genius unsustained by talent; but there is talent in the tongues.

It is the curse of talent that, although it labors with greater steadiness and perseverance than genius, it does not reach its goal, while genius already on the summit of the ideal, gazes laughingly about.

It is the melody which is the charm of music, and it is that which is most difficult to produce. The invention of a fine melody is a work of genius.

It is the privilege of true genius, And especially genius who opens up a new path, To make great mistakes with impunity

It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place, as it does for the rest of us.

It made him proud that 29 months in the service had not blunted his genius for ineptitude.

it is usually in better taste to praise an isolated action or a production of genius, than a man's character as a whole.

It is useless to deny that, unless one has a genius for imparting knowledge, teaching is a drudgery.

It matters only that you manifest your genius; it doesn’t matter when. It’s never too late or too early.

I truly miss the genius of the music of John Lennon, as I'm sure everybody does.

It requires more than mere genius to be an author.

It's a pity one can't imagine what one can't compare to anything. Genius is an African who dreams up snow.

It's a great loss.[Carrie Fisher] was a comic genius, as far as I'm concerned.

It's a good thing I'm a professional and could see the pure genius talent behind the raw sexual beauty.

It should be possible to say that there really is such as thing as "genius" and that what it is, is precisely a surprising and unexpected movement away from collective patterns of behavior and received wisdom.

It's easier to sell junk when you're known than works of genius when you're unknown.

It seems to me that even the least of the human race is touched with genius when mad with love.

It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.

It's my genius plan of avoiding any career momentum whatsoever. Definitely the pop-culture thing is something I've avoided in my act. It's just too transitory and ephemeral.

It's not like you get up on stage and you're immediately a genius. It takes a long time. So, don't be discouraged.

It takes a genius to whine appealingly.

It's too bad I'm not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because the world could use a few people like that.

It's very unlikely you're a genius, but, if you're ready to work at it hard and you want to listen to music all the time and you want to learn about it and you want to be around the people who do it, you'll find your own way.