Best 2088 quotes in «genius quotes» category

The iPod is genius. I have 300.

The lamp of genius burns quicker than the lamp of life.

The life of great geniuses is nothing but a sublime storm.

The light of genius never sets, but sheds itself upon other faces, in different hues of splendor. Homer glows in the softened beauty of Virgil, and Spenser revives in the decorated learning of Gray.

The logic is backwards. Genius is the result of doing what you love, not a prerequisite for it.

The lucky person passes for a genius.

The man of genius possesses, like everything else, the complete female in himself; but woman herself is only a part of the Universe, and the part can never be the whole; femaleness can never include genius. This lack of genius on the part of woman is inevitable because woman is not a monad, and cannot reflect the Universe.

The male orientation of classical Athens was inseparable from its genius. Athens became great not despite but because of its misogyny.

The mental disease of the present generation is impatience of study, contempt of the great masters of ancient wisdom, and a disposition to rely wholly upon unassisted genius and natural sagacity.

The miracles of genius always rest on profound convictions which refuse to be analyzed.

The moment of recognizing your own lack of talent is a flash of genius.

The most amazing and effective inventions are not those which do most honour to the human genius.

The most exciting thing about women's liberation is that this century will be able to take advantage of talent and potential genius that have been wasted because of taboos.

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

The most tremendous genius raised Mozart above all masters, in all centuries and in all the arts.

The Navy is a master plan designed by geniuses for execution by idiots. If you're not an idiot, but find yourself in the Navy, you can only operate well by pretending to be one.

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 Muse gave the Greeks genius and the art of the well-turned phrase.

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

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 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 persecution of genius fosters its influence.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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 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 no laws by which we can write Iliads.

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

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