Genius Quotes
For four years, we didn't do any 'Halloweens,' ... But I believed in it. It's not a genius creation or anything. But whenever Halloween season comes around audiences want something like this.
Many people can reach for and achieve excellence. To do this consistently is what separates masters and geniuses from everyone else.
Contemporary criticism only represents the amount of ignorance genius has to contend with. . . . Time will reverse the judgement of the vulgar.
For me, the world of nature bears spectacular witness to the imaginative genius of our Creator.
Blood is a destiny. One's genius descends in the stream from long lines of ancestry.
When I had to fill in my immigration papers, I gave my age as 19, and my profession as genius; I added that I had nothing to declare except my talent.
A man of genius is privileged only as far as he is genius. His dullness is as insupportable as any other dullness.
Genius is the power to labor better and more availably. Deserve thy genius: exalt it.
Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity, is to genius, the stern friend, the cold, obscure shelter where moult the wings which will bear it farther than suns and stars.
We owe to genius always the same debt, of lifting the curtain from the common, and showing us that divinities are sitting disguised in the seeming gang of gypsies and peddlars.
By the sense of mystery I understand the experience of certain places and times when one's whole nature seems to be in touch with a presence, a genius loci, a potency.
Scott Medlock. Some say he's a genius, some say he's a fool. I say he's the Jim Morrison of sports art, and proud to say, one of my closest friends.
... the genius never makes anything new, but always something that is just different, and the average talents provide him the possibility within which his genius condenses into achievements.
I was obsessed with Eminem when I was younger. When he first came out I was about 12 and fanatical about his 'Slim Shady' CD. I think he's a genius.
He was a genius - that is to say, a man who does superlatively and without obvious effort something that most people cannot do by the uttermost exertion of their abilities.
Every single person in the world could be a genius at something, if they practiced it daily for at least ten years (as confirmed by the research of Anders Ericsson and others).
It is quite possible for the vulgar to be funny, but to succeed, it must rise to a certain genius.
Englishmen have a genius for looking uncomfortable. Their feelings are terribly mixed up with their personal appearance.
We will have a new Taylor album in October. The record is genius. I can't wait for the fans to hear it.
Try to begin things you feel you can do. To begin is enough-there is a boldness in beginning. And in boldness lies genius and magic.
A product is usually created to improve people's lives; otherwise, why buy it? I'm no genius, but I am an American, and gosh-darnit, I consume, so I know what I'm talking about.
There have only been two authentic geniuses in the world, Willie Mays and Willie Shakespeare and I think you'd better put Shakespeare first, darling.
No woman has ever been an authentic genius of the stature of men, but that does not enrage me
Genius is subject to the same laws which regulate the production of cotton and molasses.
The all importance of clothes has sprung up in the intellect of the dandy without effort, like an instinct of genius; he is inspired with clothes, a poet of clothes.
There have been countless changes in the long history of art. The most significant have been brought about by the genius of a single artist.
The critic does his utmost to blight genius in its infancy; that which rises in spite of him he will not see; and then he complains of the decline of literature.
Those same forces that drive a genius to create the things or ideas that entertain or enlighten us often gobble so much of his personality that he has none left for the social graces.
Could it be we stifle our children's genius by languaging them too quickly away from their hearts and into the straight and narrow confines of linear thinking?
The deserving are not always blest. That peculiar attribute known as personality is as potent a factor as genius.
Having scored 298 and still hitting a six is something unimaginable and you need to be a genius for that.
