Genius Quotes
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I didn't get into rap to be no lyrical genius. I got into rap to feed my family and help the people in need around me, that's it. A lot of people say, 'Man, Waka Flocka ain't go no lyrics,' so I was like, 'Yeah, you right!'
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'Sesame Street's' genius lies in finding gentle ways to talk about hard things - death, divorce, danger - in terms that children understand and accept.
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Affirmative action based on quotas is wrong - wrong because it is antithetical to the genius of the American idea: individual liberty.
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Despite his dodgy politics, Yeats remains an inspiration for his genius and the simple fact that the older he got, the better he wrote.
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The genius which runs to madness is no longer genius.
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This adoration of an artist as a lone genius is quite misled, I think, because they are very much part of their time and their community.
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The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.
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Is it not in the most absolute simplicity that real genius plies its pinions the most wonderfully?
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Madonna is her own Hollywood studio - a popelike mogul and divine superstar in one. She has a laserlike instinct for publicity, aided by her visual genius for still photography (which none of her legion of imitators has). Unfortunately, her public life has dissolved into a series of staged photo ops.
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Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.
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The stigma of oddness is the price a myopic world always exacts of genius.
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You are a potential genius; there is no problem you cannot solve, and no answer you cannot find somewhere.
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Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.
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All genius is a conquering of chaos and mystery.
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Creativity runs across many categories in life, from the arts-and-crafts project a mum or dad does with their kids, to the bestselling author's manuscript, to the designs of the hairdresser, to the creations of the computer programming genius.
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The first method is that of a schemer and leads only to mediocre results; the other method is the path of genius and changes the face of the world.
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I think there are ways to get so caught up in your career and being so heavy and dramatic, and everyone wants to be a tortured genius.
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Should you be so unfortunate as to suppose you are a genius, and that 'things will come to you,' it would be well to undeceive yourself as soon as possible. Make up your mind that industry must be the price of all you obtain, and at once begin to pay down.
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There's a fine line between genius and insanity, as we all know.
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Martin Freeman is a genius, he really is. He gives you every color of the rainbow in every take and it's wonderful just to play off of him and opposite him.
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I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhere.
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Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright.
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Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.
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Every complete man has his genius. True virtue is genius.
