Best 2088 quotes in «genius quotes» category

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.

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.

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

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 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

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.

Often-times it's madness, not genius that moves the world forward. Who else but the mad would reach so far, stretching for the impossible and, in so doing, prove the impossible possible!

Of the three prerequisites of genius; the first is soul; the second is soul; and the third is soul.

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.

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

Once you realize that there are no geniuses out there, you can think, "I can do that". One reason I've succeeded is that I have that naïve sense of entitlement.

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!

One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.

[On Einstein:] You cannot analyze him, otherwise you will misjudge him. Such a genius should be irreproachable in every respect. But no, nature doesn't behave like this. Where she gives extravagantly, she takes away extravagantly.

One of my top 10 favorite movies of all time was South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut. Team America is a work of genius to me.

One of the terrible things about George W. Bush Administration is that nobody wants to hear bad news. The neoconservatives are a small circle, and they're all sort of holding hands as they develop their policy, and outsiders aren't allowed. If you agree with the guys on the inside, you're a genius. If you disagree, you're a traitor, a pariah, you're an apostate, and you're not allowed in.

[On Elizabeth Barrett Browning:] Her sweetness of character is even beyond her genius.

One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible.

One of the cheapest commodities in the world is unfulfilled genius. All of us want to be known as a unique individual, the one who broke out of the pack. So, you offer yourself up as a sacrifice and what you’re afraid of is losing and being thrown back into the pack. One question taunts you. Do you want to have, or do you want to be?

...one of the traits of genius is not to drag its thought through the rut worn by vulgar minds.

Originality is genius. If you respect and care for it, it will take you on the ride of your life.

One type of concentration is immediate and complete, as it was with Mozart. The other is plodding and only completed in stages, as with Beethoven. Thus genius works in different ways to achieve its ends.

Only a great fool or a great genius is likely to flout all social grace with impunity, and neither one, doing so, makes the most comfortable companion.

Only a man who has loved a woman of genius can appreciate what happiness there is in loving a fool.

Organizations cannot make a genius out of an incompetent. On the other hand, disorganization can scarcely fail to result in efficiency.

Originality is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe - you can't take a taxi.

Only God and some few rare geniuses can keep forging ahead into novelty.

Only when Genius is married to Science can the highest results be produced.

Originality and creativity are nothing but the result of the wise management of combinations. The creative genius combines more rapidly, and with a greater critical sense of what gets tossed out and what gets saved, the same material that the failed genius has to work with.

Outstanding examples of genius - a Mozart, a Shakespeare, or a Carl Friedrich Gauss - are markers on the path along which our species appears destined to tread.

parents are too apt to mistake inclination for genius.

Part of America's genius has always been its ability to absorb newcomers, to forge a national identity out of the disparate lot that arrived on our shores.

Passion is the genesis of genius.

Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.

People do not respect music anymore... They go by what's hot... If you're hot, you deserve 4 or 5 Grammys... Madonna is a genius and she only has 2 or 3 Grammys... What is that about?

People hate me because I am a multifaceted, talented, wealthy, internationally famous genius.

People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel.

People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.

Persons of genius, and those who are most capable of art, are always most fond of nature: as such are chiefly sensible, that all art consists in the imitation and study of nature.

Persuading the people to vote against their own best interests has been the awesome genius of the American political elite from the beginning.

Peter had a genius for imitation; but he lacked true genius, which is creative and makes all from nothing.