What Is A Genius Quotes

It generally happens that assurance keeps an even pace with ability.

Skill is fine, and genius is splendid, but the right contacts are more valuable than either.

We wish genius and morality where affectionate companions, but it is a fact that they are often bitter enemies. They don't necessarily coalesce any more than oil and water do.

Blessed be, the genius who never knew good fortune! Genius in itself already means so much; what meaning does luck still hold for him?

The genius' behind the new Rocky movie decided to call it Rocky Balboa so that we'll probably forget that it's number six. Or Rocky Balboa can't count past five.

But I don't think I have any particular talent for prediction, because when you have three or four elements in hand, you don't have to be a genius to reach certain conclusions.

Once genius is submerged by bureaucracy, a nation is doomed to mediocrity.

Against attempts on my life, I trust in my luck, my good genius, and my guards.

Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.

The source of genius is imagination alone, the refinement of the senses that sees what others do not see, or sees them differently.

Trust me. I'm a genius.

Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such, We scarcely can praise it or blame it too much; Who, born for the Universe, narrowed his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind.

The source of genius is imagination alone.

It is personality with a penny's worth of talent. Error which chances to rise above the commonplace.

The stigma of oddness is the price a myopic world always exacts of genius.

Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.

You know, Leonard Cohen is amazing, just a mastermind, and really one of the great geniuses of our time.

I think if you steal well, you're a genius. If you copy badly, you're a hack.

To be complex does not mean to be fragmented. This is the paradox and the genius of our Canadian civilization.

Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds

The most amazing and effective inventions are not those which do most honour to the human genius.

To run over better waters the little vessel of my genius now hoists her sails, as she leaves behind her a sea so cruel.

To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men that is genius.

There is no such thing as unfortunate genius; if a man or woman is fit for work, God appoints the field.

When I edit, I'm not from the school of Hello, I'm a genius, so everybody shut up. I'm from the school of Let's play it once in front of an audience, and then I'll tell you where it is going

Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius.

The word genius was whispered into my ear, the first thing I ever heard, while I was still mewling in my crib. So it never occurred to me that I wasn't until middle age.

No reporter of my generation, whatever his genius, ever really rated spats and a walking stick until he had covered both a lynching and a revolution.

Genius: the ability to prolong one's childhood.

Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.

Bob has never written a bad song. Bob Dylan is a genius.

Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them.

Not gifted with genius but honestly holding his experiences deep in his heart, he kept his simplicity and humanity.

I have had the great good fortune of working with a true genius of yoga, Karuna Erickson, in developing a new system called Heart Yoga.

Men of genius are far more abundant than is supposed. In fact, to appreciate thoroughly the work of what we call genius, is to possess all the genius by which the work was produced.

Common sense is as rare as genius.

What has happened by chance is often difficult to repeat when it is sought deliberately. Chance is a genius.

Rising genius always shoots forth its rays from among clouds and vapours, but these will gradually roll away and disappear, as it ascends to its steady and meridian lustre.

Genius is becoming something you were all along.

The problem with Ireland is that it's a country full of genius, but with absolutely no talent.

Envy depreciates the genius of the great Homer.

I have met with but one or two persons in the course of my life who have understood the art of Walking, that is, of taking walks,-who had a genius, so to speak, for sauntering.

Everyone is born a genius.

Apple has lost a visionary and creative genius, and the world has lost an amazing human being.

[Dmitry Bilozerchev] is a genius of gymnastics.

Sticking to it is the genius.

Genius. It's a word. What does it really mean? If I win I'm a genius. If I don't, I'm not.

The richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds.

Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.

Geniuses are not always pleasant people.