Quotes about genius
genius great-men triggers
The true genius of a great manager is his or her ability to individualize. A great manager is one who understands how to trip each person's trigger. Marcus Buckingham
genius doe talent
In Mozart and Salieri we see the contrast between the genius which does what it must and the talent which does what it can. Maurice Baring
genius may energy
Genius is mainly an affair of energy, and poetry is mainly an affair of genius; therefore a nation whose spirit is characterized by energy may well be imminent in poetry - and we have Shakespeare. Matthew Arnold
genius actors needs
Talent I say is what an actor needs. And talent is faith in oneself, one's own powers. Maxim Gorky
genius fields sometimes
Sometimes I feel that I am a natural born genius in a field of human endeavor that hasn't been invented yet Max Beerbohm
genius claims loses
I make no claim to being a business genius. You can make so much money in this business that it loses its value. Nat King Cole
genius superiors seeing
Genius is only a superior power of seeing. John Ruskin
genius equal buffoons
I'm equal part genius, equal part buffoon. Noel Gallagher
genius nurture can-do
You cannot create genius. All you can do is nurture it. Ninette de Valois
genius kind rich
Buddy Rich is one of a kind; he's a genius, and that's all there is to it. Mel Torme
genius knows
Genius knows where the questions are hidden. Mason Cooley
genius talent deck
Talent shuffles the deck. Genius brings a new deck.
genius world firsts
Those who have wrought great changes in the world never succeeded by gaining over chiefs; but always by exciting the multitude. The first is the resource of intrigue and produces only secondary results, the second is the resort of genius and transforms the universe. Martin Van Buren
genius composer
Bernard Herrmann was a genius, a great, great composer. Michel Hazanavicius
genius difficult difficult-days
You can't have genius without patience. Margaret Deland
genius hunger handmaids
Hunger is the handmaid of genius Mark Twain
genius doe expected
I am a genius. Then it amused me to keep saying so, but now it does not. I expected to be happy sometime. Now I know I shall never be. Mary MacLane
genius syphilis claims
WHORES. Necessary in the nineteenth century for the contraction of syphilis, without which no one could claim genius. Julian Barnes
genius young fascinated
There's nothing wrong with being a genius who can fascinate the young. Rather, there's something wrong with the young who can't be fascinated by a genius.
genius talent
Talent does what it can, and genius does what it must.
genius percent
It was 1 percent genius and 99 percent perspiration.
genius guy worked
I'm probably the only guy who worked for Stengel before and after he was a genius. Warren Spahn
genius last love required
The first and last thing required of genius is, love of the truth. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
genius erratic originality
The incompatibility of aquacity with the erratic originality of genius. James Joyce
genius originality human-nature
Human nature has a much greater genius for sameness than for originality. James Russell Lowell
genius grows commonplace
To genius life never grows commonplace.
genius trouble capacity
Genius is a capacity for taking trouble. Leslie Stephen
genius talent
Genius is talent exercised with courage. Ludwig Wittgenstein
genius talent forget
Genius is what makes us forget the master's talent.
genius force highest
Susceptibility to the highest forces is the highest genius. Henry Adams
genius news journalism
The news we hear, for the most part, is not news to our genius. It is the stalest repetition. Henry David Thoreau
genius guy
The guy was a certifiable genius. Not quite. He was a genius.
genius happened happens
Intelligence recognizes what has happened. Genius recognizes what will happen. John Ciardi