Genius Quotes
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The term "genius" gets used far too loosely in rock & roll.
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Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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There are two types of genius; one which above all begets and wants to beget, and another which prefers being fertilized and giving birth.
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Genius is knowing to stay silent as others demonstrate their ignorance.
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There is no element of genius without some form of madness.
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I don't know whether my husband is a genius or not, but he certainly has a dirty mind.
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The persecution of genius fosters its influence.
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The genius thing that we did was, we didn't give up.
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Common sense is a vastly overrated virtue. I myself prefer the spark of genius.
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I think I'm a GENIUS. Point F#*king blank.
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And then I had my greatest stroke of genius since that ham sandwich with pickles that time.
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You don't have to go to Harvard to figure out that the Big East is the best league in the country. You don't have to be a genius. A dummy like me can figure that out. When I look at my coach of the year candidates, Jamie Dixon is in my top five. Jamie has done a fantastic job. He has lost some heartbreakers on the road, but that's because winning on the road in the Big East is so difficult. They've been able to win at home. And that's the key when you play in a tough league. You better win your home games.
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Marvin Gaye is our John Lennon. The longer he's gone, the more young people appreciate his art. 'What's Going On' was a work of genius far ahead of it's time.
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There's no such thing as a genius in politics, or at least I have never met one. There are only human beings, some better than others, who rise or fall on the challenges they meet.
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I am a true soul genius and, unlike certain other singers, 100 per cent man.
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There's a thin line between genius and insanity - and I always get labelled as being the crazy one.
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One of the cheapest commodities in the world is unfulfilled genius. All of us want to be known as a unique individual, the one who broke out of the pack. So, you offer yourself up as a sacrifice and what you’re afraid of is losing and being thrown back into the pack. One question taunts you. Do you want to have, or do you want to be?
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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.
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Artistic genius is an expansion of monkey imitativeness.
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Skill is fine, and genius is splendid, but the right contacts are more valuable than either.
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Who else but the maestro of mathematical creativity, Clifford Pickover, to curate a museum of Strange Brains and write biographies of the scientific geniuses who formerly owned them? I'll never look at a pigeon, a pearl, or a Wheatstone bridge the same way again.
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Alfred Nobel regretted that his invention, dynamite, was converted to degrading use, hence his creation of the Nobel Prize, as the humanist counter to the destructive power of his genius.
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The lucky person passes for a genius.
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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.
