Genius Quotations

Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience.

The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities

You can't hang around geniuses forever because they end up taking everything you've got. That's why they're the genius and you're not.

UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity.

When my nephew was 3 and 4, he would say the most genius things. He said, You're hammer macho with FBI dogs. I thought it was just one of those great lines.

It requires genius to make a good pun - some men of bright parts can't reach it.

Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature.

Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy.

The three theater peeps I would love to dine with are Mel Brooks, because he is so funny; Stephen Sondheim, because he is a god-like genius; and Ethel Merman, to compare notes on fabulous belting.

Young men and young women, full of courage, originality, and genius, are everywhere to be met with.

A neurotic can perfectly well be a literary genius, but his greatest danger is always that he will not recognize when he is dull.

I truly miss the genius of the music of John Lennon, as I'm sure everybody does.

All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred.

Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Unless one is a genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible.

And I think it is the genius of actors to be able to escape whatever people are expecting of them. Otherwise you become like a factory worker.

My evil genius Procrastination has whispered me to tarry 'til a more convenient season.

Intelligence recognizes what has happened. Genius recognizes what will happen.

All genius is a conquering of chaos and mystery.

Genius is one of the many forms of insanity.

Historically, the Republicans have been geniuses at throwing away advantages.

Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.

Is it not in the most absolute simplicity that real genius plies its pinions the most wonderfully?

And indeed if you think you're a genius at something, what you achieve is very much according to your expectations; if you think you're no good, you're not going to get anywhere.

I have no physical genius about me. I can't dribble a ball and run at the same time, I can't do lay-ups - I'm not an athlete. But my experience as a kid was, I was made fun of so much that what I did then, is, I wouldn't participate. And I think I cheated myself out of a lot of fun.

Almost all the noblest things that have been achieved in the world, have been achieved by poor men; poor scholars, poor professional men, poor artisans and artists, poor philosophers, poets, and men of genius.

Nothing is so envied as genius, nothing so hopeless of attainment by labor alone. Though labor always accompanies the greatest genius, without the intellectual gift labor alone will do little.

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.

The only genius that's worth anything is the genius for hard work.

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.

Good sense travels on the well-worn paths; genius, never. And that is why the crowd, not altogether without reason, is so ready to treat great men as lunatics.

The history of Rome presents various men of greater genius than Scipio Aemilianus, but none equalling him in moral purity, in the utter absence of political selfishness, in generous love of his country, and none, perhaps, to whom destiny has assigned a more tragic part.

To be complex does not mean to be fragmented. This is the paradox and the genius of our Canadian civilization.

Talent does whatever it wants to do. Genius does only what it can.

Instead of being lionized and admired for her genius, instead of being able to earn a decent living as a writer, Andrea Dworkin was misrepresented and demonized.

Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.

Every man is a potential genius until he does something.

Buddy Rich is one of a kind; he's a genius, and that's all there is to it.

Graham Yost is a genius, and I know that very well because we worked together on Band of Brothers and Boomtown.

I'm all in favor of the democratic principle that one idiot is as good as one genius, but I draw the line when someone takes the next step and concludes that two idiots are better than one genius.

Truly, the bench is a boon to idlers. Whoever first came up with the idea is a genius: free public resting places where you can take time out from the bustle and brouhaha of the city, and simply sit and watch and reflect.

I feel very fortunate to have been associated with people such as Rodgers and Hammerstein. I think they were geniuses of their time.

Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright.

Genius not only diagnoses the situation but supplies the answers.

My favorite types of movies definitely aren't thrillers, but at the same time you can't deny the genius of Hitchcock's films.

Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

A man possesses talent; genius possesses the man.

At home I have a Tibetan terrier. I'm still not sure if he's a genius or very thick. It's a fine line.

Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes.

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.

The genius which runs to madness is no longer genius.

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 genius of the economic machine is in its ability to convert these indulgences into profitability. It converts desire into attention, a grip on our eyeballs and eardrums, which in turn can be marketed to advertisers.

The truth is that our race survived ignorance; it is our scientific genius that will do us in.

Sweet Genius'' viewers will be on the edge of their seats as we continue to push the limits with inspirations and ingredients, while showcasing the talents of some of the best pastry chefs around. As a result, the desserts that the chefs create are truly outrageous.

It is always well to get near to men of genius.

Marriage requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy requires genius.

Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.

Unfortunately, goodness and honor are rather the exception than the rule among exceptional men, not to speak of geniuses

Genius is nothing more than common faculties refined to a greater intensity. There are no astonishing ways of doing astonishing things. All astonishing things are done by ordinary materials.

Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine.

I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring.

There is nothing in the genius of America more precious today than the spirit of religious and political tolerance in its application to our own people.

There are some good teachers out there, but the only one who is a genius at diagnosing my swing is my mom. She took up golf late, when she was 39, but in her younger days, she was an amazing athlete. She never read an instruction book or took lessons, but she has a remarkable eye for motion.

Like many businessmen of genius he learned that free competition was wasteful, monopoly efficient. And so he simply set about achieving that efficient monopoly.

Genius is another word for magic, and the whole point of magic is that it is inexplicable.

Susceptibility to the highest forces is the highest genius.

This homage has been rendered not to me - for the Polish soil is fertile and does not lack better writers than me - but to the Polish achievement, the Polish genius.

Could we teach taste or genius by rules, they would be no longer taste and genius.

Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius.

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

The art music of the West has developed through out its history by means of individual geniuses, and out of the soil supporting them; non-Western musicians were born, and grew like the grasses of the field.

The dread of criticism is the death of genius.

Genius is the talent of a person who is dead.

Pain is definitely a genius in his own right. 'Thr33 Ringz' is definitely one of my top 10 albums. It's one of those albums you listen to front-to-back.

The man who puts life into an idea is acclaimed a genius, because he does the right thing at the right time. Therein lies the difference between the genius and a commonplace man.

No one can arrive from being talented alone, work transforms talent into genius.

The world is not so much in need of new thoughts as that when thought grows old and worn with usage it should, like current coin, be called in, and, from the mint of genius, reissued fresh and new.

Mike Patton is a genius... It is definitely the hardest music I've ever played.

I am a genius who has written poems that will survive with the best of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Keats

If there be anything that can be called genius, it consists chiefly in ability to give that attention to a subject which keeps it steadily in the mind, till we have surveyed it accurately on all sides.

By and large, talent is in such short supply that mediocrity can be taken for brilliance rather more than genius can go undiscovered.

The poets scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death.

Genius is the talent for seeing things straight.

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

Genius, like truth, has a shabby and neglected mien.

When I edit, I'm not from the school of Hello, I'm a genius, so everybody shut up. I'm from the school of Let's play it once in front of an audience, and then I'll tell you where it is going

Popular in our time, unpopular in his. So runs the stereotype of rejected genius.

It's a lucky child that knows that they're a genius, unaimed and all that.

The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.

My mother was an artist, and I was fairly good at art as a child. I was always the best drawer in class, except in second grade when an artistic genius passed through our school!

Taste is the fundamental quality which sums up all the other qualities. It is the nec plus ultra of the intelligence. Through this alone is genius the supreme health and balance of all the faculties.

The first Matrix genius, the second one, what's up with the dancing? I haven't even seen the third one.

I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.

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

Almost all the producers I know and dig, like Quincy Jones or Brian Eno, are really musicians first. I'm a composer, an orchestrator, an arranger and a musician first. I know how to write and rewrite songs, and the genius is really in the rewriting.

Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.

I mean, Scorsese's a genius, and that's one way of shooting.

Commerce changes the fate and genius of nations.

A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius.