Genius Quotes
Most people think that intelligence is about brain, where really it's about focus. Genius is just attention to a subject until it becomes specific, specific, specific.
The creative genius may be at once naive and knowledgeable, being at home equally with primitive symbolism and rigorous logic.
A man of genius is unbearable, unless he possesses at least two things besides: gratitude and purity.
There are two types of genius; one which above all begets and wants to beget, and another which prefers being fertilized and giving birth.
To complicate things in new ways, that is really very easy; but to see things in new ways, that is difficult and that is why genius is so rare.
The prophesying business is like writing fugues; it is fatal to every one save the man of absolute genius.
The most exciting thing about women's liberation is that this century will be able to take advantage of talent and potential genius that have been wasted because of taboos.
The secret of science is to ask the right question, and it is the choice of problem more than anything else that marks the man of genius in the scientific world.
Genius is a good deal like the sea ... Nothing can restrain its tide or quicken it.
Every work of Genius is tinctured by the feelings, and often originates in the events of times.
There is no work of genius which has not been the delight of mankind, no word of genius to which the human heart and soul have not sooner or later responded.
You don't find geniuses in street musicians, but that doesn't mean to say you can't be really good.
The term 'genius' is inapplicable to anyone in this game. A genius is Norman Einstein.
The book is what we have come to expect from Marion: challenging, subtle and nuanced analyses, dassling formulations, . . a provocative and original philosophical genius.
Every age has a kind of universal genius, which inclines those that live in it to some particular studies.
The genius of poetry must work out its own salvation in a man; it cannot be matured by law and precept, but by sensation and watchfulness in itself. That which is creative must create itself.
Men of genius are like eagles, they live on what they kill, while men of talents are like crows, they live on what has been killed for them.
The painter of genius will not waste a moment upon those smaller objects which only serve to catch the sense, to divide the attention, and to counteract his great design of speaking to the heart.
When you step back and watch people, you realize that we use every single body part. Movement, dance - I find it genius because it's ultimate expression, really.
Subconsciously the genius is feared as an image breaker; frequently he does not accept the opinions of the mass, or man's opinion of himself.
Now and then genius carries all before it, but not often. We have to climb slowly, with many slips and falls.
The role of a leader is not to rule over other people, but to hold a space for their own genius.
The genius of art finds sanctuary among children and madmen to survive.That is who we are.
Germany is a machine for producing geniuses. Its crowning product was the German Jew which in suitably dramatic style it then tried to destroy.