Quotes about genius
genius labor
Knowledge without labor is profitless. Knowledge with labor is genius. Gordon B. Hinckley
genius trouble
You have a genius for bringing trouble upon yourself Georgette Heyer
genius host calamity
A host is like a general: calamities often reveal his genius. Horace
genius trash
Genius is full of trash. Herman Melville
genius charity may
I confess that I have hitherto indulged very little in philanthropic enterprises.... While my townsmen and women are devoted in somany ways to the good of their fellows, I trust that one at least may be spared to other and less humane pursuits. You must have a genius for charity as well as for anything else. As for Doing-good, that is one of the professions which are full. Henry David Thoreau
genius divinity
Nature is full of genius, full of divinity. Henry David Thoreau
genius failing hours
Follow your genius closely enough, and it will not fail to show you a fresh prospect every hour. Henry David Thoreau
genius sometimes
Sometimes I stagger even myself with my genius. Jeremy Clarkson
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
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 trust-me
Trust me. I'm a genius. Eoin Colfer
genius sensible i-can
I've always been sensible with my money. I can't say I'm a business genius. Jasper Carrott
genius chance easy
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. Evgeny Morozov
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 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 guy worked
I'm probably the only guy who worked for Stengel before and after he was a genius. Warren Spahn
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 talent
Talent does what it can, and genius does what it must.
genius proportion talent
Between genius and talent there is the proportion of the whole to its part