Best 2088 quotes in «genius quotes» category

When leadership rises to genius it has the power of transforming, of transforming experience into power. And that is what experience is for, to be made into power. The great leader creates as well as directs power.

When I wrote 'My Humps,' I said, 'This is the stupidest thing ever,' but in a good way. I always wondered what it must be like to be a girl, always gettin' pulled on. Maybe she's the smartest genius on the planet, but she's rackin' double Ds with a 26-inch waist and a big ol' ass and no one's ever gonna see her like that because that's the way the world is today.

When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.

When the body is assailed by the strong force of time and the limbs weaken from exhausted force, genius breaks down, and mind and speech fail. [Lat., Ubi jam valideis quassatum est viribus aevi Corpus, et obtuseis ceciderunt viribus artus, Claudicat ingenium delirat linguaque mensque.]

When things don't go well, it helps to think of yourself as a genius and the rest of the world as a bunch of idiots.

When [Vladimir] Putin goes out and tells everybody - and you talk about a relationship, but he says Donald Trump is going to win and Donald Trump is a genius, and then I have people saying you should disavow. I said, I'm going to disavow that?

When thou seest an eagle, thou seest a portion of genius; lift up thy head!

When you drink coffee, you become very focused, and in fact, the key to creative genius is to be defocused.

When you realize there are geniuses out there and you'd be a journeyman... that's not good enough. I'd rather be the person helping those who are one in a billion get their vision out.

When you're onstage with Chris Rock, anything can happen. He is one of the greatest comic geniuses we've ever seen.

when you think you've got hold of a genius ... you can't be sure whether it's a spark of the divine fire or a mere flash in the pan.

Where power is absent we may find the robe of genius, but we miss the throne.

Whether it's Dorothy Parker or Oscar Wilde, they're brilliant with genius bon mots. Of course, I find them extraordinary.

Why shouldn't I be introspective? We dont' make sense." "Neither do Chocolate and Peanut Butter, but it somehow works." He says "Somehow the mixture of two things is genius.

While Genius was thus wasting his strength in eccentric flights, I saw a person of a very different appearance, named Application.

Who in the same given time can produce more than others has vigor; who can produce more and better, has talents; who can produce what none else can, has genius.

Why would you try to kill this guy, Kevin? He's a genius. Nuts to your truce.

Will and energy sometimes prove greater than either genius or talent or temperament.

Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence.

With the offspring of genius, the law of parturition is reversed; the throes are in the conception, the pleasure in the birth.

Winston Churchill - fifty per cent genius, fifty per cent bloody fool.

Wit and humor belong to genius alone.

With some songs, I have written narratives or I've tried to carry it through, but generally the things that were more genius, as far as I was concerned, were not that.

With the proper training, I could've been an evil genius.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is the only musician who had as much knowledge asgenius, and as much genius as knowledge.

Wit is the god of moments, but Genius is the god of ages.

With the stones we cast at them, geniuses build new roads with them.

Wit lives in the present, but genius survives the future.

Wit is often a mask. If you tear it you will find either genius irritated or cleverness juggling.

Woman, in short, has an unconscious life, man a conscious life, and the genius the most conscious life.

Wit is absolutely sociable spirit or aphoristic genius.

Women of genius commonly have masculine faces, figures and manners. In transplanting brains to an alien soil God leaves a little of the original earth clinging to the roots.

Woody Allen is a genius. His films are wonderful. He's poetic, but he's also a critic. He artfully steps back from a social setting and criticizes it without - I suspect - without letting himself be vulnerable to it.

Work is honorable. It is good therapy for most problems. It is the antidote for worry. It is the equalizer for deficiency of native endowment. Work makes it possible for the average to approach genius. What we may lack in aptitude, we can make up for in performance. . . .

Would you like to know the great drama of my life? It is that I have put my genius into my life...I have put only my talent into my works.

Writers ... I think ... live on that fine line between insanity and genius.

Yes, I believe sincerely that every man has consummate genius within him. Some appear to have it more than others only because they are aware of it more than others are, and the awareness or unawareness of it is what makes each one of them into masters or holds them down to mediocrity.

You certainly can't tell anything from the microscopic structure of the brain whether the person was an idiot or a genius.

You are a potential genius; there is no problem you cannot solve, and no answer you cannot find somewhere.

You can do something with talent, but nothing with genius.

You cannot create genius. All you can do is nurture it.

You can't have genius without patience.

You don't have to be a genius to recognize one. If you did, Einstein would never have gotten invited to the White House.

Yes, I think I am a genius, but not a rebel.

You are a genius beyond description, so start telling yourself that and become aware of who you really are.

You don't have to be a genius when you're surrounded by morons.

You have read and heard that communist theory-the science of communism created in the main by Marx, this doctrine of Marxism-has ceased to be the work of a single socialist of the nineteenth century, even though he was a genius, and that it has become the doctrine of millions and tens of millions of proletarians all over the world, who are applying it in their struggle against capitalism.

Your brain has a capacity for learning that is virtually limitless, which makes every human a potential genius.

You look around the world at geniuses, and they don't appear randomly, they appear in genius clusters. Athens in 50 BC, Florence 1500, Silicon Valley today. This is not a coincidence.

You must believe you have limitless potential in order to manifest your genius fully. Tell yourself every day, "I am a genius," and believe it.