Best 2088 quotes in «genius quotes» category

There is no genius free from some tincture of madness

There is no genius where there is not simplicity.

There is no greater consolation for mediocrity than that the genius is not immortal.

There is no element of genius without some form of madness.

There is no genius without a mixture of madness.

There is no genius who hasn't a touch of insanity.

There is no hierarchy of values any more. Real progress is due mainly to human genius, and that's rare, and usually stems from a real elite, from a hierarchy.

There is no limit to the ingenuity of man if it is properly and vigorously applied under conditions of peace and justice.

There is no more dreary or more repulsive creature than the man who has evaded his genius.

There is no more light in a genius than in any other honest man - but he has a particular kind of lens to concentrate this light into a burning point.

There is no so wretched and coarse a soul wherein some particular faculty is not seen to shine.

There is no such thing as unfortunate genius; if a man or woman is fit for work, God appoints the field.

There is nothing new in art except talent.

There is one qualification the manager cannot acquire but must bring to the task. It is not genius; it is character.

There is only one proved method of assisting the advancement of pure science-that of picking men of genius, backing them heavily, and leaving them to direct themselves.

There is sometimes a greater judgement shewn in deviating from the rules of art, than in adhering to them; and'there ismore beauty inthe works of a great genius who is ignorant of all the rules of art, than in the works of a little genius, who not only knows but scrupulously observes them.

There is such a thing as genius, and these are people who do not have a formal disability, DSM-IV-type. They may have liberal eccentricities or quirks in their personality, but they don't rise to the level of a disability.

There is the same difference between talent and genius that there is between a stone mason and a sculptor

There never appear more than five or six men of genius in an age, but if they were united the world could not stand before them.

There's a certain standard in classical music that allows the application of the term "genius," but you're treading on thin ice if you start applying it to rock & rollers.

There's a certain pattern that exists with geniuses - an eccentricity, a lack of social graces and an inability to really communicate with mere mortals.

There's a fine line between genius and insanity, as we all know.

There's a fine line between what would characterize you as a troglodyte and what would characterize you as a brilliant, avant-garde, forward-thinking genius. There's some middle ground.

There's a fine line between eccentrics and geniuses. If you're a little ahead of your time, you're an eccentric, and if you're too late, you're a failure, but if you hit it right on the head, you're a genius.

There's a lot of controversy online, some people say i'm a genius and other say i'm hugely talented.

There's an old saying, "We can mess it up and God cleans it up." I haven't noticed a deity of any sort cleaning up our messes. We're going to have to do it ourselves, particularly since we have created most of these problems just by the genius and creativity that we've expressed and experienced here in this modern period. We've done it, and we've got to straighten it out.

There's a perceived inverse relation between looks and talent. Look at Charlize Theron - she made herself ugly for 'Monster' and suddenly everyone said 'she's a genius.' It shouldn't be like that.

There's a stark difference between the words 'prodigy' and 'genius.' Prodigies can very quickly learn what other people have already figured out; geniuses discover that which no one has ever previously discovered. Prodigies learn; geniuses do.

There's a quote I love, the full version is a bastardisation of quotes from William Hutchison Murray and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, but it's about the importance of starting things - not completing or succeeding - but beginning. It ends: "Anything you dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, magic and power in it. Begin it now!".

There's a really brilliant photographer who's deceased who in my sort of fashion and modelling days, I was fortunate enough to get to work with before he passed away, but Richard Avedon was utterly genius and creatively brilliant.

There's a thin line between genius and insanity - and I always get labelled as being the crazy one.

There seems almost a general wish of descrying the capacity and undervaluing the labour of the novelist, and of slighting the performances which have only genius, wit, and taste to recommend them.

There's nothing wrong with being a genius who can fascinate the young. Rather, there's something wrong with the young who can't be fascinated by a genius.

There's no genius behind it. It's persistence and listening to people.

There's the same percentage of genius happening in both genders, but there's less women writing scripts and out there looking for the job.

There's pressure to come up with something genius every time. I feel like I keep letting myself down with my Twitter posts. I have to start keeping a journal of rough drafts of prophetic ideas about the world.

The rishis, who discovered the law of nonviolence in the midst of violence, were greater geniuses than Newton.

The richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds.

The rust of the mind is the destruction of genius.

The source of genius is imagination alone, the refinement of the senses that sees what others do not see, or sees them differently.

The source of genius is imagination alone.

The seeds of genius are in many blogs, but bloggers lack the interest in or understanding of the difference between blogging and fully-formed literary efforts.

The seventh factor of the basic ingredients of genius, as determined from an extensive analysis of the lives of outstanding men of this nation, is *the habit of going the extra mile.* You will never be a genius unless you make it a habit to do more and better than you are paid to do, every single day of your life.

The so-called materialistic conception of history, with the crude elements of genius of the early form which appeared, for instance, in the Communist Manifesto, still prevails only in the minds of laymen and dilettantes.

The space involving insanity and genius is calculated only by good results.

The stigma of oddness is the price a myopic world always exacts of genius.

The step between genius and insanity is very short.

The straight roads are the roads of progress, the crooked roads are thee roads of genius.

The thing about genius is it will never yield to circumstances. Genius regards what's given as the beginning of its need to find or devise something else.

The study of combinations should enrich the analytical spirit of studious amateurs. Thereafter the most gifted among them will be able to catch some sparks of the genius of masters, and in addition some rays of the glory that is the masters.