Genius Quotes
Some people come by the name of genius in the same way that certain insects come by the name of centipede -- not because they have a hundred feet, but because most people can't count above 14.
You must believe you have limitless potential in order to manifest your genius fully. Tell yourself every day, "I am a genius," and believe it.
The geniuses who conduct the motion-picture business killed glamour when they decided that what the public wanted was not dream stuff, from which movies used to be made, but realism.
Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam of light on those that are without, while the inhabitant sits in darkness.
He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. The dread of censure is the death of genius.
People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't realize how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world.
Genius is the very eye of intellect and the wing of thought; it is always in advance of its time, and is the pioneer for the generation which it precedes.
Churchill was fundamentally what the English call unstable - by which they mean anybody who has that touch of genius which is inconvenient in normal times.
Genius is play, and man's capacity for achieving genius is infinite, and many may achieve genius only through play.
What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road empirically, following one's nose, taking shortcuts.
The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.
In Spanish, we have a saying that when a genius points at the moon, a fool looks at the finger. I find that happens a lot with bitcoin.
We must have recourse to the rules of music when our genius and our ear seem to deny what we are seeking.
It is the privilege of true genius, And especially genius who opens up a new path, To make great mistakes with impunity
The straight roads are the roads of progress, the crooked roads are thee roads of genius.
A people so individual in its genius, so tenacious in love or hate, so captivating in its nobler moods.
The real wonder is not that one man should be a genius, but that every man should not be.
Men of genius sometimes accomplish most when they work least, for they are thinking out inventions.
Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.
Of all the projects I've worked on, I've never worked with another director like Billy Friedkin. I think he's a genius.
Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there.
A genius is a genius, regardless of the number of morons who belong to the same race - and a moron is a moron, regardless of the number of geniuses who share his racial origin.
If someone can write great music... Paul McCartney is a genius. He's so prolific. All we should do is bow down to Paul McCartney.
a masterpiece doesn't so much transcend its time as perpetuate it; it keeps its moment alive.
The genius does not differ from others in their access to the light within, only in their confident acceptance of its natural outstreaming.
Only a great fool or a great genius is likely to flout all social grace with impunity, and neither one, doing so, makes the most comfortable companion.
We don't train executives, we find them. If a mountain stands up like Everest, you don't have to be a genius to figure out that it's a high mountain.
The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in his ideas.
An average person with average talents and ambition and average education, can outstrip the most brilliant genius in our society, if that person has clear, focused goals.
I hate everything approaching temperamental inspiration,'sacred fire'and all those attributes of genius which serve only as cloaks for untidy minds.
So excited for the Apple Watch. For centuries, we've checked the time by looking at our phones. Having it on your wrist? Genius.
It's not like you get up on stage and you're immediately a genius. It takes a long time. So, don't be discouraged.
The world is not so much in need of new thoughts as that when thought grows old and worn with usage it should, like current coin, be called in, and, from the mint of genius, reissued fresh and new.
One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible.