Quotes about genius
genius originality poetic
Every true poet, I thought, must be original and originality a condition of poetic genius; so that each poet is like a species in nature (not an individuum genericum or specificum ) and can never recur. That nothing shd. be old or borrowed however cannot be. Gerard Manley Hopkins
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. Julian Barnes
geniuses three
There's a movie in that story. Three geniuses having explosions.
genius definitions
AB de Villiers is the definition of a Cricketing Genius Michael Vaughan
genius legends said
I never said I was a genius. I never said I was a cornerstone. I've never said I'm a legend in my own time. You never heard me say nothing like that. Ray Charles
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 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 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 care dinner
Alber Elbaz is just a genius. He'll be in a dinner jacket and he doesn't care what time of day it is: I love that about him. He just marches to the beat of his own drum. Pharrell Williams
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 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. Mason Cooley
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
Everyone is a genius at being themselves Thelonious Monk
genius jazz monk
A genius is the one most like himself. Thelonious Monk
genius crowds fruit
This is the method of genius, to ripen fruit for the crowd by those rays of whose heat they complain. Margaret Fuller
genius absolutes
Jim Henson was an absolute genius. Marcus Brigstocke
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 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 keith doe
Keith, how does it feel to be a genius? Miles Davis
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. James Russell Lowell
genius trouble capacity
Genius is a capacity for taking trouble. Leslie Stephen
genius guy
The guy was a certifiable genius. Not quite. He was a genius.
genius force highest
Susceptibility to the highest forces is the highest genius. Henry Adams