What Is A Genius Quotes

Genius points the way, talent takes it.

I don't know yet what I am capable of doing, but, by God, I have genius -- I know it too well to blush behind it.

Genius, like gold and precious stones, is chiefly prized because of its rarity.

You're called a genius by people, and then your whole life you become the part.

I truly miss the genius of the music of John Lennon, as I'm sure everybody does.

What is genius? It is the power to be a boy again at will.

Intelligence is not creative; judgment is not creative. If a sculptor is nothing but skill and mind, his hands will be without genius.

Men of genius are meteors destined to burn themselves out in lighting up their age.

Genius still means to me, in my Russian fastidiousness and pride of phrase, a unique dazzling gift. The gift of James Joyce, and not the talent of Henry James.

Genius is a will-o'-the-wisp if it lacks a solid foundation of perseverence and fanatical tenacity. This is the most important thing in all of human life.

We measure genius by quality, not by quantity.

I strongly urge students to learn to take risks, to be bold, to let their genius convert that fear into power and brilliance.

Isnt it lovely to know that even the great Sherlock Holmes, the quirky and genius Sherlock Holmes, is vulnerable to love as we all are?

Genius never desires what does not exist.

This homage has been rendered not to me - for the Polish soil is fertile and does not lack better writers than me - but to the Polish achievement, the Polish genius.

The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.

I'm equal part genius, equal part buffoon.

The secret to genius is not genetics but daily practice married with relentless perseverance.

Inventors and geniuses have almost always been looked on as no better than fools at the beginning of their career, and very frequently at the end of it also.

Andy Warhol is the only genius I've ever known with an IQ of 60.

Genius, all over the world, stands hand in hand, and one shock of recognition runs the whole circle round.

Great minds tend toward banality. It is the noblest effort of individualism. But it implies a sort of modesty, which is so rare that it is scarcely found except in the greatest, or in beggars.

Art Tatum -- he was a genius. And Einstein, not me.

A wise reader reads the book of genius not with his heart, not so much with his brain, but with his spine. It is there that occurs the telltale tingle.

A good woman would rather be the mother of a genius than the wife of a hero

You may have genius. The contrary is, of course, probable.

A talent for drama is not a talent for writing, but is ability to articulate human relationships.

There is one qualification the manager cannot acquire but must bring to the task. It is not genius; it is character.

Adversity is wont to reveal genius, prosperity to hide it.

Every thought which genius and piety throw into the world alters the world.

Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius.

When thou seest an eagle, thou seest a portion of genius; lift up thy head!

A genius is somebody who seemingly just reaches out of nowhere.

Critics are notoriously liberal with their use of the term 'genius'.

No science is speedily learned by the noblest genius without tuition.

The creative urge matters. Stories matter. Images matter. It matters that you were born with a genius, a guiding spirit, a daimon that may know more about your destiny than you do.

One of the joys of cinema is that, given the right circumstances, and the genius director, an incredibly wonderfully actor can become the embodiment of his character.

All my lovers have been geniuses; it's the one thing that I insist.

True genius doesn't fulfill expectations, it shatters them.

It's too bad I'm not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because the world could use a few people like that.

What happens whenever we convert a writer into a symbol is that we lose the writer himself in all his indefeasible singularity, his particular inimitable genius.

Genius only leaves behind it the monuments of its strength.

Made a sketch later on the cabin verandah, but it was impossible to keep up with the changes. Oh the difficulties of mountain art for too little genius.

I never said I was a genius. I never said I was a cornerstone. I've never said I'm a legend in my own time. You never heard me say nothing like that.

True understanding is the spur of genius

Common sense is genius in homespun.

Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy.

If beauty isn't genius it usually signals at least a high level of animal cunning.

One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.

The first method is that of a schemer and leads only to mediocre results; the other method is the path of genius and changes the face of the world.