Genius Quotes

We always tend to distrust geniuses about genius, as if what they say didn't arouse much empathy in us, or as if we were waiting till some more reliable source of information came along...

There are only one or two geniuses every century.

You don't have to be a genius to find the hidden potential deep in your mind.

You dont have to be a political genius to sniff the smell of blood in the water.

Many now born, by the time they are voters will compose part of a nation with a genius nowhere equaled, and with a vast territory upon which those energies and that genius can operate.

It's not my fault so much as my genius.

Adrian, you're a genius.

Genius does not excuse evil.

Any media-brainwashed automaton can summon the insipid courage to peer into the horrifying abyss. But it takes a freaking genius with a fearless imagination to peer into the maw of happiness.

Genius is nourished from within and without.

Action, so to speak, is the genius of nature.

Someday a political genius will come along and make the Senate work.

The Genius Pattern = Thy will be done with my talents with my circles of influence with the opportunities that are laid out in front of me to bless the world.

It is hard to overstate the debt we owe to the men and women of genius.

The combined wisdom and genius of all mankind cannot possibly conceive of an argument against liberty of thought.

It is perseverance, and not genius that takes a man to the top. Rome is full of unrecognized geniuses. Only perseverance enables you to move forward in the world.

I quite liked Sharkey and George and then there was a cartoon with rapper MC Hammer in it - Hammertime - I loved that cartoon, it was genius! They don't make cartoons like that anymore.

Now, inventiveness and empathy, those qualities, if they're together in the same person, you've got an entrepreneurial genius. But they do tend to be slightly separate.

Stanley Kubrick is one of the geniuses of this century.

What makes success is not your genius idea, but the execution and follow-through around it

No kid is unsmart. Every kid's a genius at something. Our job is to find it. And then encourage it.

All of the great geniuses of the world were inspired and driven by their desire to enrich the lives of others.

As we each express our natural genius, we all elevate our world.

Buffett’s genius was largely a genius of character—of patience, discipline, and rationality.

Make your service systems so strong that everyone looks like a genius.

I guess a certain amount of temperament is expected of Chess geniuses

The purpose of America is to unleash the full talent and genius of every individual.

I'd rather have a genius like Donald Trump running America than someone like Hillary Clinton.

Everything I do, I feel is genius. Whether it is or it isn't.

I signed Jay-Z because he was on fire. I wasn't a genius. The record was great. I put it on The Nutty Professor soundtrack and we signed him.

She was a genius, my mother.

The daily life of a genius, his sleep, his digestion, he ecstasies, his nails, his colds, his blood, his life and death are essentially different from the rest of mankind.

Genius now and then produces a lucky trifle. We still read the Dove of Anacreon, and Sparrow of Catullus; and a writer naturally pleases himself with a performance which owes nothing to the subject.

No estimate is more in danger of erroneous calculations than those by which a man computes the force of his own genius.

As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius - the power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination.

The genius of Coleridge is like a sunken treasure ship, and Coleridge a diver too timid and lazy to bring its riches to the surface.

Finally, good sense is the body of poetic genius, fancy its drapery, motion its life, and imagination the soul that is everywhere and in each; and forms all into one graceful and intelligent whole.

Seldom can philosophic genius be more usefully employed than in thus rescuing admitted truths from the neglect caused by the very circumstance of their universal admission.

Dryden 's genius was of that sort which catches fire by its own motion; his chariot wheels get hot by driving fast.

It is remarkable what fine hands men of genius write, even when they are as awkward in all other uses of the hand as a cow with a musket.

... actors of the first water are not more plentiful than playwrights of genius.

Oh, wondrous power! how little understood, Entrusted to the mother's mind alone, To fashion genius, form the soul for good, Inspire a West, or train a Washington.

I really got into 'The Walking Dead.' That was genius. And I have to say, my husband is on 'Shameless,' and I think it's a brilliant show.

Stand aside, and try not to catch fire if I shed sparks of genius.

The greatest form of genius is that which isn’t noticed.

Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.

Artists are people with a genius for finding a new answer, a new connection, or a new way of getting things done.

I believe we are all geniuses-each in our own unique way.

Someone please tell me that we’re not seriously having a friggin’ debate over the genius of ‘Karma Chameleon’ at seven o’clock in the morning? (Xypher)

I feel very fortunate to have been associated with people such as Rodgers and Hammerstein. I think they were geniuses of their time.