Best 2088 quotes in «genius quotes» category

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 characteristic of genius to be hopeful and aspiring.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

It requires more than mere genius to be an author.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 was a vicious cycle, though. The more gratification we found in our own geniuses, the more isolated we grew.

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 takes a genius to whine appealingly.

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.

It turns out that our intuition is a greater genius than we are.

It wasn't an excuse. It was a fact. He'd had to make his way alone, and no one - not rock stars, not professional athletes, not software billionaires, and not even geniuses - ever makes it alone.

It will work. I am a marketing genius.

I've never met a genius. A genius to me is someone who does well at something he hates. Anybody can do well at something he loves - it's just a question of finding the subject.

I used to say to my auntie, 'You throw my fu*kin' poetry out, and you'll regret it when I'm famous,' and she threw the bast*rd stuff out. I never forgave her for not treating me like a fu*kin' genius or whatever I was when I was a child.

I've met some real talents that were...real talents and I've met some real talents that were incredible people.People like Al Williamson, Gray Morrow, to a certain extent Jim Steranko, who is an institution all to himself. What a talent. What a genius talent.

I've always been sensible with my money. I can't say I'm a business genius.

I've always said that the word 'genius,' especially in Hollywood, is way overused.

I've seen high and lows. When things go well that doesn't make me feel like some genius. Nor will I allow the next disappointment to make me feel like a complete failure.

I've run into certain geniuses of individualism - they are very few and far between - who live their lives completely on their own terms; they are very powerful and have a great amount of happiness. We all should aspire to that.