Genius Quotes
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Strategy is the most important department of the art of war, and strategical skill is the highest and rarest function of military genius.
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As far as my creative urge is concerned, I do sit down and write my own music...I'll tell you a writer who I think is a genius: Ray Stevens. He comes up with some of the most fantastic novelty ideas. Dolly Parton also writes well. I like a lot of songs, a lot of writers.
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Our genius ain't appreciated around here... let's scram!
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Genius only leaves behind it the monuments of its strength.
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To some extent, we all have quirks or idiosyncrasies, and some geniuses, because of how bright they are and how focused they are, may have liberal eccentricities, but they're not at a disabling level.
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Now that I'm on Broadway, it's like NASA engineering with the costumes. I was very grateful for the slightly more high-tech ones in my show, 'Venus in Fur'; our costume designer Anita Yavich is kind of a genius.
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Boldness has power, magic and genius in it.
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The unconscious self is the real genius. Your breathing goes wrong the moment your conscious self meddles with it.
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Childhood and genius have the same master organ in common - inquisitiveness.
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Talent is the ability to say things well, but genius is the ability to, well, say things.
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Character shows itself apart from genius as a special thing. The first point of measurement of any man is that of quality.
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Do you know how a man makes his way here? By brilliant genius or by skilful corruption. You must either cut your way through these masses of men like a cannon ball, or steal among them like a plague.
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I think Yelena Akhtiorskaya is a genius. What she manages to do, linguistically and emotionally, in the span of a single sentence, is astonishing.
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The truth is that our race survived ignorance; it is our scientific genius that will do us in.
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Talent is full of thoughts, Genius is thought. Talent is a cistern, Genius a fountain.
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Genius is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one, and the man of talent sees two or three, plus the ability to register that multiple perception in the material of his art.
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The genius is making a way out of no way.
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The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities
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Everyone praises Sachin Tendulkar. He may be a genius in his own right but in my book, Rahul Dravid is the artist. Dravid's defence tactics, his strokes, his cuts, his grace are truly amazing. I'd like to meet the chap sometime and take my hat off to him.
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Genius or fool, you don't live in the world alone. You can hide underground or you can build a wall around yourself, but somebody's going to come along and screw up the works.
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The unrecognized genius of our time.
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High original genius is always ridiculed on its first appearance; most of all by those who have won themselves the highest reputation in working on the established lines. Genius only commands recognition when it has created the taste which is to appreciate it.
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Rules and models destroy genius and art.
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Philosophers of genius, children, and the people are equally wise - because they ask equally foolish questions. Foolish to a civilized man who has a well-furnished European apartment with an excellent toilet and a well-furnished dogma.
