Genius Quotations | Page 7

These are times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed. The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues.

the series of checks and balances that exemplify the genius of our founding fathers.

The three-year-old, then, is a grammatical genius - master of most constructions, obeying rules farmore often than flouting them, respecting language universals, erring in sensible, adultlike ways, and avoiding many kinds of errors altogether.

Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln,

Perhaps, if I am very lucky, the feeble efforts of my lifetime will someday be noticed, and maybe, in some small way, they will be acknowledged as the greatest works of genius ever created by Man

Ramp up my genius, be not retrograde; But boldly nominate a spade a spade.

Orson was a beautiful man, he was not only a genius as a director, an actor, a writer but as a person he was bigger than life and I don't mean just in girth. He was a wonderful, wonderful mind and a wonderful disposition.

Theo had a real knack for recognizing genius when he saw it. He tirelessly promoted Gauguin and never gave up hope on Pissarro, even though the paintings didn't sell at all.

Stoops' reputation was reduced from 'pure genius' to 'smarter than Barry Switzer but not nearly as smarmy.'

Special? Now that is a big word, like genius. It should not be thrown around. Special should be reserved for Triple Crown winners and horses like Spectacular Bid. (Brother Derek) is a very nice horse and he has gotten better and better.

The more one studies these scores, the more indisputable one finds their evidences of authentic genius, and the more captivated one remains.

And that's one of the most genius roles ever played. So I think a sense of self-doubt somehow translates into something very interesting.

An entrepreneur is a kind of genius who is born, not made.

Any night we make 11 3s, I look like a genius.

The burning of an author's books, imprisonment for opinion's sake, has always been the tribute that an ignorant age pays to the genius of its time.

They say that genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains, he remarked with a smile. ""It's a very bad definition, but it does apply to detective work.

Although we haven't found talented skaters in China like Ahn and Jin, I believe that from step-by-step training, new genius will come out. Short-track speed skating needs the efforts from generation to generation. We will do further research on the regularity of the sport and try to resume the success for China.

This is what Blizzard always does. They have an innate genius at taking these genres that are considered hard-core geek property and repolishing them so they are accessible to the mainstream. To do that without losing their geek cred is an incredible achievement.

I try to figure this team out, and if I could, I'd be a genius. We're all swinging the bats well at the same time, or we're all not swinging the bats well at the same time.

It's a fine line between genius and insanity. John is the best player who ever walked on a tennis court. He also always walked that line. Sometimes he goes over it.

For four years, we didn't do any 'Halloweens,' ... But I believed in it. It's not a genius creation or anything. But whenever Halloween season comes around audiences want something like this.

It's hard to determine whether the wholesale strategy is a mark of genius or desperation.

It's my guess that those cutting-edge artists who attack tradition secretly believe tradition will survive to enshrine them as the wild and crazy geniuses who destroyed it

Doesn't matter. He will get better. He will finish the season at .300-something. Ichiro is a genius.

Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd.

Edward Teller's genius has produced monumental contributions to physics, ... This professorship constitutes an honor that will, above all else and in perpetuity, remind us of that genius and those contributions.

Ed and John are the Lou Gehrig and Babe Ruth of animation. They both possess the balance that is needed, John being the creative fountain and Ed being not only the technological genius but a managerial one as well.

Everyone knows that when it comes to designing plays, Eddie is a genius. He always comes up with the new move or the new strategy. He's amazing.

Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.

Everyone at Starbucks Hear Music feels a strong emotional connection to Genius Loves Company, ... We truly appreciate the recognition the Recording Academy has given this album and are thrilled by the response the public has shown to this project.

Everybody's a genius, it's just a matter of whether you love yourself enough to admit it to yourself and fly with whatever your area of genius is.

Talent does what it can, and genius does what it must.

It is the program's intent to remove any barriers that would prevent them from getting a job, paying taxes and abstaining from illegal behavior. Before, it didn't take a genius to figure out it wouldn't be long before they'd go back to stealing, selling drugs, whatever it took to make a living.

It was 1 percent genius and 99 percent perspiration.

Shawn was one of those genius, madness people. ... But my fondest memory of him is his laugh. He was a lover of things, not a hater, ... He associated music with happiness. In every other part of his life, there was tragedy.

The last thing I would ever want to do is offend my favorite pop musical genius icon,

The failure of woman to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block the way of all women of talent and ambition for intellectual achievement in a manner that would be amusingly absurd were it n

The 'Chronicles of Narnia' have been favourites of mine since my childhood when I misread 'Aslan' as 'Alsatian' and was struck by the genius of naming a lion after a dog!

I'm delighted. It's a fantastic and beautiful masterpiece of early Renaissance sculpture by the presiding genius of the 15th century.

I'm really excited to have Ms. Hill on the track, ... She's truly a genius. The first time I ever appeared on a major album was when I played piano on 'Everything Is Everything' from 'The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill.' I have been wanting to work with her again ever since. It's great to see that wish finally come true.

I'm not a genius or anything close to it,

I like Morrie a lot. Like him, I'm a teacher and I'm also Jewish. For some in the academic world, sociology is not considered to be a rigorous science. That may be true, but Morrie must have been a very charismatic guy even if he wasn't the deepest of thinkers. The genius of his insights and how he refined the things he learned in life and passed them along are really what this story is all about.

I'm probably the only guy who worked for Stengel before and after he was a genius.

I'm The Genius, full of glory and renown,

Innovators and men of genius have almost always been regarded as fools at the beginning (and very often at the end) of their careers.

I remember one game we played and the team was pressing us and I had him bringing the ball up the court. A fellow coach, a friend of mine called me and said, 'Either you're a genius or you're crazy. How do you have a 6-10 freshman bringing the ball up the court? Don't you realize that every NBA team will see that?

I know it is very hard to rise above the influences of party prejudice. Often, it almost drowns the sentiment of patriotism. Party rancor and party hatred are the last serpents which the genius of patriotism can crush.

I play kind of a genius doctor ? really bright and kind of self-serving, ... I'm bringing in a lot of gadgets.

In the old days one merely gawked at these unfortunates. Donahue's genius is to get them to talk.

I rather like my reputation, actually, that of a spoiled genius from the Welsh gutter, a drunk, a womanizer; it's rather an attractive image.

His genius has been promotion and scheduling. Some of the pieces were in place, but if you don't exploit those pieces and don't schedule them correctly, you could have the best show on television and no one knows and no one sees.

parents are too apt to mistake inclination for genius.

Churchill was fundamentally what the English call unstable - by which they mean anybody who has that touch of genius which is inconvenient in normal times.

All my lovers have been geniuses; it's the one thing that I insist.

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

I intend to work for this dance of the future. I do not know whether I have the necessary qualities; I may have neither genius nor talent nor temperament. But I know that I have a Will; and will and energy sometimes prove greater than either genius or talent or temperament.

He [Castro] is a genius. We spoke about everything.

Geniuses can be scintillating and geniuses can be somber, but it's that inescapable sorrowful depth that shines through-originality.

Genius gives birth, talent delivers.

One genius is about all a house will hold.

No science is speedily learned by the noblest genius without tuition.

Chemical stimulation blunted the edge of Edna's otherwise so carefully cherished genius

He's a master musician. He's a genius on the keyboards and a visionary as far as the ground work he laid with P-Funk.

He's an original genius. He's kind of blazed his own trail.

Genius is the gold in the mine; talent is the miner who works and brings it out.

Genius is only a greater aptitude for patience.

Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than a whole one.

Genius, in truth, means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way

Genius does what it must, and Talent does what it can. (Last words of a Sensitive Second-Rate Poet)

Genius can do much, but even genius falls short of the actuality of a single human life.

Genius and stupidity never stray from their respective paths; talent wanders to and fro, following every light.

Genius ain't nothing more than elegant common sense.

Genius - the ability to produce fantastic amounts of equally fantastic bullshit that all makes perfect sense

Genius sits in a glass house -- but in an unbreakable one --conceiving ideas. After giving birth, it falls into madness. Stretches out its hand through the window toward the first person happening by. The demon's claw rips, the iron fist grips. Before, you were a model, mocks the ironic voice between serrated teeth, for me, you are raw material to work on. I throw you against the glass wall, so that you remain stuck there, projected and stuck. (Then come the lovers of art and contemplate the bleeding work from outside. Then come the photographers. ''New art,'' it says in the newspaper the following day. The learned journals give it a name that ends in ''ism.'')

Genius is a strong aphrodisiac.

A genius. A criminal mastermind. A millionaire. And he is only twelve years old.

Genius inspires resentment. A sad fact of life.

Foaly twitched his tail contentedly. Genius. No point in being humble about it.

Trust me. I'm a genius.

Nothing spoils a good party like a genius.

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.

Beerbohm was a genius of the purest kind. He stands at the summit of his art.

Let a man of genius make use [of photography] as it should be used, and he will raise himself to a height that we do not know.

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 Bible makes it clear that every time that there is a story of faith, it is completely original. God's creative genius is endless.

Southerners have a genius for psychological alchemy...If something intolerable simply cannot be changed, driven away or shot they will not only tolerate it but take pride in it as well.

The genius is making a way out of no way.

have you ever seen a genius out there looking for a job? it's the saddest thing in the world. no one will hire him. there is only one place where he is always welcome- at the bottom.

Latent genius is but a presumption. Everything that can be, is bound to come into being, and what never comes into being is nothing.

To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent.

To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius.

Mandelstam was an artistic genius, the sort that any century produces only a handful of.

If you're speaking of a fantasy player, then it has to be Leo Messi as he's so unpredictable. He's an absolute genius.

Chess may be the deepest, least exhaustible of pastimes, but it is nothing more. As for a chess genius, he is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.

The art of genius is knowing how far out is too far.

We live by action—by acting on desire. Those of us who don't know how to want—whether geniuses or beggars—are related by impotence.

No one can bar me from joyfully proceeding on what the great masters have left us; after all, to rediscover everything again, should be understood to be unfounded. But one should however proceed on merit, and not simply repeat wat was. All genius, sincere, deserves his place, even though maybe later in life.

The concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public.

Take the serious side of Disney, the Confucian side of Disney. It's in having taken an ethoswhere you have the values of courage and tenderness asserted in a way that everybody can understand. You have got an absolute genius there. You have got a greater correlation of nature than you have had since the time of Alexander the Great.