Genius Quotes

• Genius is a potential that lives within you and every other human being. You have many moments of genius in your lifetime. These are the times when you have a uniquely brilliant idea and implement it even if only you are aware of how fantastic it is.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Moments
  • Genius
  • Potential

• Peter had a genius for imitation; but he lacked true genius, which is creative and makes all from nothing.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • True
  • Creative
  • Nihilism

• No, I don't believe in genius. I believe in freedom. I think anyone can do it. Anyone can be like Rembrandt.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Believe
  • Freedom
  • Genius

• It's a total big difference between a person that got lyrics and a person that can make hit singles. I'm a person that can make some hit singles. I'm not in no booth trying to be a lyrical genius. I'm preparing to make me some singles, and as I develop as a man, then they'll respect my emcee skills.

  

  Waka Flocka Flame
  • Trying
  • Man
  • Respect

• Genius is supposed to be a power of producing excellencies, which are out of the reach of the rules of art.

  

  Joshua Reynolds
  • Art
  • Power
  • Rules

• Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts the book of their deeds, the book of their words, and the book of their art. Not one of these books can be understood unless we read the two others; but of the three, the only quite trustworthy one is the last. The acts of a nation may be triumphant by its good fortune; and its words mighty by the genius of a few of its children: but its art, only by the general gifts and common sympathies of the race.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Children
  • Book
  • Nations

• I have put my talent into writing, my genius I have saved for living.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Writing
  • Talent
  • Living

• Great genius you already have. The super conscious mind is invariably triggered by definition, and by decisiveness.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Great
  • Mind
  • Conscious

• I don't think that genius goes hand in hand with being socially inept or being a sociopath or being a misanthrope, but I do think that it is a mind that can think so differently - so beyond how one is supposed to think.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Mind
  • Think
  • Hand

• All this is rather pretentious and fey to even talk about, but Flannery O'Connor sat down to write stories. The rest of us, some of us, don't have that kind of wit and genius. We don't do that. We sit down and have some accidents.

  

  Padgett Powell
  • Rest
  • Write
  • Down

• Confidence breeds success & success breeds confidence... Confidence applied properly surpasses genius.

  

  Mike Tyson
  • Success
  • Confidence
  • Genius

• Beauty is a form of Genius — is higher, indeed, than Genius, as it needs no explanation. It is one of the great facts of the world, like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in the dark waters of that silver shell we call the moon. It cannot be questioned. It has divine right of sovereignty. It makes princes of those who have it.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • World
  • Beauty
  • Right

• The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Genius
  • Leads
  • Einstein

• Of all the projects I've worked on, I've never worked with another director like Billy Friedkin. I think he's a genius.

  

  Linda Blair
  • Director
  • Project
  • Billy Friedkin

• A genius is simply one who has taken full possession of his own mind and directed it toward objectives of his own choosing, without permitting outside influences to discourage or mislead him.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Mind
  • Taken
  • Discourage

• Isn't it lovely to know that even the great Sherlock Holmes, the quirky and genius Sherlock Holmes, is vulnerable to love as we all are?

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Great
  • Love
  • Vulnerable

• Genius consists not in making great discoveries, but in seeing the connection between small discoveries.

  

  Walker Percy
  • Great
  • Small
  • Connection

• There is only one proved method of assisting the advancement of pure science-that of picking men of genius, backing them heavily, and leaving them to direct themselves.

  

  James Bryant Conant
  • Science
  • Direct
  • Advancement

• If you are a genius, you'll make your own rules, but if not - and the odds are against it - go to your desk no matter what your mood, face the icy challenge of the paper - write.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • Challenge
  • Mood
  • Rules

• A good title is a work of a genius!

  

  E. Haldeman-Julius
  • Good
  • Work
  • Titles

• Anyone can be a genius, if they pick just one specific subject and study it diligently just 15 minutes each day.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Study
  • Subject
  • Specific

• Genius has no country. It blossoms everywhere. Genius is like the light, the air. It is the heritage of all.

  

  Jose Rizal
  • Country
  • Air
  • Heritage

• When I was younger I would have told you it was my genius, but now I don't believe that for a second. Music just comes out of you, it flows through, it's weird. If you think about it intellectually, how does someone come up with two hundred riffs over their life time?

  

  Tracii Guns L.A. Guns
  • Time
  • Genius
  • Flow

• From the point of view of literature Mr. Kipling is a genius who drops his aspirates. From the point of view of life, he is a reporter who knows vulgarity better than any one has ever known it.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Better
  • Knows

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