Quotes about genius
genius talent ability
Talent is the ability to say things well, but genius is the ability to, well, say things. Steve Martin
genius obliged
No one is obliged to be a genius, but everyone is obliged to participate. Philippe Starck
genius way hollywood
I've always said that the word 'genius,' especially in Hollywood, is way overused. Ted McGinley
genius trouble cases
Olivier was another case of a genius, who couldn't understand why anybody would have any trouble doing this, because for him it came so easily. James Lipton
genius records proof
The highest wisdom and the highest genius have been invariably accompanied with cheerfulness. We have sufficient proofs on record that Shakespeare and Socrates were the most festive companions. Thomas Love Peacock
genius reach-out
A genius is somebody who seemingly just reaches out of nowhere. Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
genius sparks tire
Genius is fine for the ignition spark, but to get there someone has to see that the radiator doesn't leak and no tire is flat. Rex Stout
genius contemplation form
Society develops wit, but its contemplation alone forms genius. Madame de Stael
genius kind masculinity
Genius declares itself to be a kind of higher masculinity. Otto Weininger
genius may common
Talent is hereditary; it may be the common possession of a whole family (eg, the Bach family); genius is not transmitted; it is never diffused, but is strictly individual.
genius chaos mystery
All genius is a conquering of chaos and mystery.
genius individual cases
In those rare individual cases where women approach genius they also approach masculinity.
genius arrogant scorn
The scorn of genius is the most arrogant and the most boundless of all scorn. Ouida
genius
Ricky Gervais is a genius. Oscar Nunez
genius talent stealing
Talent borrows, genius steals! Oscar Wilde
genius definitions humans
My definition of genius is not being that person the actual human is a genius, but it's a person that just allows God to work through them. Kanye West
genius talent good-things
It's a good thing I'm a professional and could see the pure genius talent behind the raw sexual beauty. Zach Braff
genius kind unusual
Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
genius firsts diligence
It is good sense applied with diligence to what was at first a mere accident, and which by great application grew to be called, by the generality of mankind, a particular genius. Samuel Johnson
genius sparrows lucky
Genius now and then produces a lucky trifle. We still read the Dove of Anacreon, and Sparrow of Catullus; and a writer naturally pleases himself with a performance which owes nothing to the subject.
genius diligence labor
I know no such thing as genius, — genius is nothing but labor and diligence. William Hogarth
genius wells
You don't have to be a genius to invest well Warren Buffett
genius poetic
God is the poetic genius in each of us. William Blake
genius l-ron-hubbard ron-hubbard
I have a lot of respect for L. Ron Hubbard and I consider him to be a genius and perhaps less acknowledged than he ought to be. Werner Erhard
genius too-much allies
Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius... he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much. William Godwin
genius firsts purpose
Genius sees the dynamic purpose first, find reasons afterward. Walter Lippmann
genius most-amazing invention
The most amazing and effective inventions are not those which do most honour to the human genius. Voltaire
genius movement patterns
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. William Irwin Thompson
genius fields six
I know of only six genuine comic geniuses in movie history; Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Groucho Marx & Harpo Marx, Peter Sellers, and W.C. Fields. Woody Allen
genius monkeys expansion
Artistic genius is an expansion of monkey imitativeness. William Winwood Reade
genius fame dread
He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. The dread of censure is the death of genius. William Gilmore Simms
genius neglect circumstances
Seldom can philosophic genius be more usefully employed than in thus rescuing admitted truths from the neglect caused by the very circumstance of their universal admission.
genius madness
Genius has to pass over madness and madness over genius Salvador Dali