Quotes about genius
genius neglect circumstances
Seldom can philosophic genius be more usefully employed than in thus rescuing admitted truths from the neglect caused by the very circumstance of their universal admission. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
genius madness
Genius has to pass over madness and madness over genius Salvador Dali
genius idiot constitution
[quoting someone else] the American constitution is a document designed by geniuses to be eventually interpreted by idiots Joseph J. Ellis
genius invisible paint
Genius is the ability to see things invisible, to manipulate things intangible, to paint things that have no features Joseph Joubert
genius sitting debt
We owe to genius always the same debt, of lifting the curtain from the common, and showing us that divinities are sitting disguised in the seeming gang of gypsies and peddlars. Ralph Waldo Emerson
genius may add
Talent may frolic and juggle; genius realizes and adds. Ralph Waldo Emerson
genius ends
Genius is its own end. Ralph Waldo Emerson
genius intellect constructive
Genius is intellect constructive. Ralph Waldo Emerson
genius harm
Genius, even, as it is the greatest good, is he greatest harm. Ralph Waldo Emerson
genius months band
I bought [John Lennon's] 'Plastic Ono Band,' and I listened to it over and over for months. It's a monumental work of genius... Lenny Kravitz
genius way hollywood
I've always said that the word 'genius,' especially in Hollywood, is way overused. Ted McGinley
genius labor deserve
Genius is the power to labor better and more availably. Deserve thy genius: exalt it. Ralph Waldo Emerson
genius persons indebted
The greatest genius is the most indebted person. Ralph Waldo Emerson
genius talent
Genius is power, talent is applicability. Ralph Waldo Emerson
genius plagiarism
Genius Borrows nobly. Ralph Waldo Emerson
genius pity paint
What a genius, that Picasso. It is a pity he doesn't paint. Marc Chagall
genius feels
Everything I do, I feel is genius. Whether it is or it isn't. Rufus Wainwright
genius studios
We allow no geniuses around our Studio. Walt Disney
genius
I signed Jay-Z because he was on fire. I wasn't a genius. The record was great. I put it on The Nutty Professor soundtrack and we signed him. Russell Simmons
genius birth idiot
If the birth of a genius resembles that of an idiot, the end of a Havana Corona resembles that of a 5-cent cigar. Sacha Guitry
genius way sticks
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. Thomas A. Edison
genius becoming impossible
One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible. Simone de Beauvoir
genius technique results
The Alexander Technique transformed my life. it is the result of an acknowledged genius. I would recommend it to anyone. Tony Buzan
genius vastness
Such is the vastness of his genius that he can outwit even himself. Steven Erikson
genius talent ability
Talent is the ability to say things well, but genius is the ability to, well, say things. Steve Martin
genius wells behinds
I don't know yet what I am capable of doing, but, by God, I have genius -- I know it too well to blush behind it. Thomas Wolfe
genius lines littles
There's a fine line between eccentrics and geniuses. If you're a little ahead of your time, you're an eccentric, and if you're too late, you're a failure, but if you hit it right on the head, you're a genius. Thomas Watson, Jr.
genius reach-out
A genius is somebody who seemingly just reaches out of nowhere. Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
genius motion-pictures i-realized
I realized what you could do in motion pictures by surrounding yourself with geniuses. Richard Donner
genius mathematics economy
In some parts of life, like mathematics and science, yeah, I was a genius. I would top all the top scores you could ever measure it by. Steve Wozniak
genius world gains
The world is poised on the cusp of an economic and cultural shift as dramatic as that of the Industrial Revolution. (OK, it doesn't take a genius, or even a politician, to figure out that big changes are afoot when we have a medium that lets someone throw up a virtual storefront on the Web and instantly gain access to the global market.) Steven Levy
genius
Genius has somewhat of the infantine; but of the childish not a touch or taint. Robert Browning
genius mystery potency
By the sense of mystery I understand the experience of certain places and times when one's whole nature seems to be in touch with a presence, a genius loci, a potency. Richard Aldington