What Is A Genius Quotes

My father was a management genius. But what I really wanted was a dad.

Your insecurity and neediness is what makes you a big neurotic ball of comedy genius.

Maybe you can make art out of unredeemed pain, but only if you're a genius -- Dostoyevsky perhaps.

The soul of a landscape, the spirits of the elements, the genius of every place will be revealed to a loving view of nature.

I am the farthest thing from a computer genius.

Mediocrity has no greater consolation than in the thought that genius is not immortal.

Genius is immediate, but talent takes time.

The world thinks eccentricity in great things is genius, but in small things, only crazy.

There are two things that kill a genius - a fatal disease and contentment.

Genius sometimes consists of knowing when to stop.

Genius is one of the many forms of insanity.

In the hands of a genius, engineering turns to magic, philosophy becomes poetry, and science pure imagination.

An artist discovers his genius the day he dares not to please.

Genius involves both envy and calumny.

No company should depend on one person no matter how that person is smart or genius, whether it's Apple or News Corp, or Citibank or any other company in the world.

I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring.

Some were brilliant bordering on genius. Others, genius bordering on madness

This art, born of genius and good taste, can become beautiful and varied to an infinite degree.

Execution is the chariot of genius.

No one can resist the idea of a crippled genius.

Genius lasts longer than Beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves.

Genius is only a greater aptitude for patience.

There are some cloudy days for the mind as well as for the world; and the man who has the most genius is twenty times a day in the clouds.

There's a perceived inverse relation between looks and talent. Look at Charlize Theron - she made herself ugly for 'Monster' and suddenly everyone said 'she's a genius.' It shouldn't be like that.

Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

In talking about a genius, you would not say that he lies; he sees realities with different eyes from ours.

Man is a conscious, rational thinker and a supra-conscious creator genius.

He is gifted with genius who knoweth much by natural inspiration.

A man possesses talent; genius possesses the man.

Brilliant thinking is rare, but courage is in even shorter supply than genius.

To understand Europe, you have to be a genius - or French.

You're a star -- and so am I. I'm a genius -- and so are you. Your success encourages my brilliance, and my charisma enhances your power. Your victory doesn't require my defeat, and vice versa.

When things don't go well, it helps to think of yourself as a genius and the rest of the world as a bunch of idiots.

Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.

These are times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed.

Genius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has been pried from its hands and the blood has been cleaned up.

I consider myself to be a genius who happens to play chess.

Mozart. Vivaldi. Van Gogh. Stretched their genius on struggle, stress and survival.

Six months go by very quickly when you're a genius.

The bolder the action, the greater the genius, magic and power that is likely to flow from it.

Genius is not so much a light as it is a constant awareness of the surrounding gloom.

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.

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.

He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. The dread of censure is the death of genius.

Geniuses are like ocean liners: they should never meet.

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.

The concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public.