Genius Quotes
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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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The role of a leader is not to rule over other people, but to hold a space for their own genius.
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Talent jogs to conclusions to which Genius takes giant leaps.
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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.
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A cat knows how to be comfortable, how to get the people around it to serve it. In a tranquil domestic situation, the cat is a veritable manipulative genius. It seeks the soft, it seeks the warm, it prefers the quiet and it loves to be full. It displays, when it gets its own way in these matters, a degree of contentment we would all like to emulate.
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A man of genius is inexhaustible only in proportion as he is always renourishing his genius.
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Genius must ever be imperfect. Life is not long enough nor slow enough for both brain and character to grow side by side to superhuman proportions.
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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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We need creative people working with broadcasters, making smart content to inspire people to be geniuses.
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Genius can only breathe freely in an atmosphere of freedom.
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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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Genius creates from the heart and when the artifact is broken so is the heart.
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Newton was a genius, but not because of the superior computational power of his brain. Newton's genius was, on the contrary, his ability to simplify, idealize, and streamline the world so that it became, in some measure, tractable to the brains of perfectly ordinary men.
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He that seeks popularity in art closes the door on his own genius: as he must needs paint for other minds, and not for his own.
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Genius is eternal patience.
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Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.
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The logic is backwards. Genius is the result of doing what you love, not a prerequisite for it.
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Genius? Nothing! Sticking to it is the genius! Any other bright-minded fellow can accomplish just as much if he will stick like hell and remember nothing that's any good works by itself. You've got to make the damn thing work!...I failed my way to success.
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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.
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To know one's self is wisdom, but to know one's neighbor is genius.
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Men of genius are far more abundant than is supposed. In fact, to appreciate thoroughly the work of what we call genius, is to possess all the genius by which the work was produced.
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I suppose that Paderewski can play superbly, if not quite at his best, while his thoughts wander to the other end of the world, orpossibly busy themselves with a computation of the receipts as he gazes out across the auditorium. I know a great actor, a master technician, can let his thoughts play truant from the scene.
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Don't forget that Mozart worked on commission. He almost always would write something if he knew exactly who was paying for it and where it would be performed. So you can't really separate the creation of genius from the appreciation of it.
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What moves those of genius, what inspires their work is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough.
