Genius Quotes
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That genius is feeble which cannot hold its own before the masterpieces of the world.
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The source of genius is imagination alone, the refinement of the senses that sees what others do not see, or sees them differently.
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When a man of genius appears in the world, it is immediately recognized by the fact that all the blockheads join forces against him.
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A great composition to me is.. an incarnation of a genius, of all that was ever in him of the slightest consequence.
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Bruce was a genius, conveniently born on Christmas Eve with, according to my mother, Messiah potential.
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One type of concentration is immediate and complete, as it was with Mozart. The other is plodding and only completed in stages, as with Beethoven. Thus genius works in different ways to achieve its ends.
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It is easy to be seen as either a genius or a crank. If you have a Ph.D., at least you somewhat lower the chances that you will be seen as a crank.
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Genius. It is just attention to something specific. That's all it is. Law of Attraction makes it happen, and so anyone who gives attention to any subject for a period of time will evolve in the direction of that understanding.
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After making a mistake or suffering a misfortune, the man of genius always gets back on his feet.
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The unrecognized genius of our time.
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Memory exercised in a particular way is a natural gift of poetic genius. The poet above all else, is a person who never forgets certain sense impressions which he has experienced and which he can relive again as though with all their original freshness.
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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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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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Common sense is only a modification of talent. Genius is an exaltation of it. The difference is, therefore, in degree, not nature.
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I have worked with countless organizations that exhaust energy adapting to the weaknesses of the leader. I had a leader announce to his/her team the other day that he/she was the smartest person in the room. It perhaps was true, but that is where self-regulation should come in. The days of one genius surrounded by a bunch of worker bees are hopefully done. I know Millennials won't buy into such a scenario.
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One cannot explain the existence of genius. It is better to enjoy it.
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Eggs Benedict is genius. It's eggs covered in eggs. I mean, come on, that person should be the president.
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Talent warms-up the given (as they say in cookery) and makes it apparent; genius brings something new. But our time lets talent pass for genius. They want to abolish the genius, deify the genius, and let talent forge ahead.
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Talent is full of thoughts, Genius is thought. Talent is a cistern, Genius a fountain.
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Ray Toro is a very eccentric, crazy genius type guy. I think he's a genius. He just got this thing at the VMA. The way he played, it makes you go 'Jesus!' He's really sweet, really kind of lovable. He's like a cartoon character.
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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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The whole difference between a man of genius and other men, it has been said a thousand times, and most truly, is that the first remains in great part a child, seeing with the large eyes of children, in perpetual wonder, not conscious of much knowledge--conscious, rather of infinite ignorance, and yet infinite power; a fountain of eternal admiration, delight, and creative force within him meeting the ocean of visible and governable things around him.
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Lady stand on line before me, speak English so good, like genius, in America only four years, I ashamed tell twenty-two years; I tell twenty!” To class she went only once. “I don’t go back,” she said emphatically. “Too foolish book, Dick and Jane.” She shrugged disdainfully. “Not Tolstoi!"
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A cretin can kill you just as efficiently as a genius, and usually a whole lot quicker because a cretin has no conscience.
