Quotes about genius
genius sometimes
Sometimes I stagger even myself with my genius. Jeremy Clarkson
genius way
The genius is making a way out of no way. Henry Louis Gates
genius latent presumption
Latent genius is but a presumption. Everything that can be, is bound to come into being, and what never comes into being is nothing. Henri Frederic Amiel
genius talent mark
To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent. Henri Frederic Amiel
genius impossible talent
To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius. Henri Frederic Amiel
genius fetters
Genius ... is necessarily intolerant of fetters ... George Eliot
genius turns steady
Steady work turns genius to a loom. George Eliot
genius mastermind knows
You know, Leonard Cohen is amazing, just a mastermind, and really one of the great geniuses of our time. Jake Shimabukuro
genius fortune companion
Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius. Isaac Disraeli
genius audience
Genius requires an audience. Jacqueline Carey
genius strangeness
Vance has a genius in evoking the beauty of strangeness, the strangeness of beauty. Jack Vance
genius vices rebellious
Sanctity and genius are as rebellious as vice. George Santayana
genius tasks individual
Mankind must work continually to produce individual great human beings - this and nothing else is the task... for the question is this : How can your life, the individual life, retain the highest value, the deepest significance? Only by living for the good of the rarest and most valuable specimens. Friedrich Nietzsche
genius
My genius is in my nostrils. Friedrich Nietzsche
genius recognition crosses
Never expect any recognition here--the system prohibits it. The cross is not affixed to the genius, no, the genius is affixed to the cross. Franz Grillparzer
genius artistic produce
Mandelstam was an artistic genius, the sort that any century produces only a handful of. Christian Wiman
genius may littles
Chess may be the deepest, least exhaustible of pastimes, but it is nothing more. As for a chess genius, he is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise. George Steiner
genius inferiority madness
The concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public. Ezra Pound
genius talent
I probably have genius. But no talent. Francis Ford Coppola
genius spirit wit
The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs. Francis Bacon
genius
Before I was a genius I was a drudge. Ignacy Jan Paderewski
genius original
He's an original genius. He's kind of blazed his own trail. Martin Short
geniuses gift hard talk themselves work
Geniuses themselves don't talk about the gift of genius, they just talk about hard work and long hours. James Cash Penney
genius sensitive talent words
Genius does what it must, and Talent does what it can. (Last words of a Sensitive Second-Rate Poet)
genius proportion talent
Between genius and talent there is the proportion of the whole to its part
genius hurts lost
We lost a genius and we lost my brother, ... You've lost a cornerstone of good, and that hurts real bad.
genius talent
Talent does what it can, and genius does what it must.
genius talent take-time
Genius is immediate, but talent takes time. Janet Flanner
genius timing mark
A sense of timing is the mark of a genius. Jenny Holzer
genius madness method
Madness in method, that's genius Frank Herbert
genius talent proportion
Intelligence is to genius as the whole is in proportion to its part. [Fr., Entre esprit et talent il y a la proportion du tout a sa partie.] Jean de la Bruyere
genius obvious understood
A genius knows how to make himself easily understood without being obvious about it. Jean Anouilh
genius appreciated
Our genius ain't appreciated around here... let's scram! Moe Howard