Genius Quotes
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A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.
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Good taste cannot supply the place of genius in literature, for the best proof of taste, when there is no genius, would be, not to write at all.
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It is usually in better taste to praise an isolated action or a production of genius, than a man's character as a whole.
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I'm not a genius. I'm just a hard-working guy.
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Dostoevsky's visible world was a world of sensationalism. He may in the last analysis be a great mystic or a great psychologist; but he almost always reveals his genius on a stage crowded with people who behave like the men and women one reads about in the police news.
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The man of genius whether as artist or thinker requires a mass of accidental variations to select from and a rigidly selective process of attention.
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One good thing about being a woman is we haven't too many examples yet of what a genius looks like. It could be me.
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If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators.
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Let us leave to the brain what belongs to it, and agree that the work of the men of genius is of the superhuman, the offspring of man.
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The coffeehouse is good for genius, and the Viennese coffeehouse is a classic case. Freud had his favorite coffee shop, and so did Gustav Klimt.
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I was painfully shy when I was younger but at some point you've gotta grow up. I think the genius in the man-boy thing is you tap into a woman's motherly instincts.
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Some people think I'm a mythical genius, others think I'm a junkie madman.
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The woman and the genius do not work. Up to now, woman has been mankind's supreme luxury. In all those moments when we do our best, we do not work. Work is merely a means to these moments.
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The genius of America is production; and a large percentage of our productive enterprises are headed by men who have come up from the worker's bench.
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Because you are a great lord, you think you are a great genius! . . . Nobility, wealth ... You went to the trouble of being born—nothing more! For the rest—a very ordinary man!
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The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life, clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his powers. Even genius itself is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose. Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.
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Women have the genius of charity. A man gives but his gold; a woman adds to it her sympathy.
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Skill is fine, and genius is splendid, but the right contacts are more valuable than either.
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I'm interested in genius the way a hungry man is interested in Philadelphia cheesesteaks. I want something. I want a piece of it.
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There's no genius behind it. It's persistence and listening to people.
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With some songs, I have written narratives or I've tried to carry it through, but generally the things that were more genius, as far as I was concerned, were not that.
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My only genius talent is inquisitiveness.
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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 lucky person passes for a genius.
