What Is A Genius Quotes

Genius is nothing but a mastery of the subject at hand

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much, doing nothing, really doing nothing.

As complicated as life is, Its also very simple, Once we can find a balance, the world becomes ours, Till then, the hard work is to make things that are sooo complicated look sooo simple

There's a thin line between genius and bottom-barrel stupidness. I hover delicately on a tightrope between the two, wondering where I'll land if I'll ever fall.

Some people today are wandering generalities instead of meaningful specifics because they have failed to discover and mine the wealth of potentials in them.

Genius is 10% talent and 90% hard work

It is impossible for a star to shine and not get noticed, even in the dark.

Use your mind’s talents diligently, your heart’s powers incredibly, and your soul’s genius profitably.

Just because you consider yourself a genius does not mean you are smart

I don't trust anybody who isn't a little bit neurotic

I am a habitual rule-breaker

I take it as a compliment when somebody calls me crazy. I would be offended if I was one of the sheeple, one of the sleepwalkers in the matrix or part of the collective hallucination we call 'normal

If you wish success in life, make perseverance you bosom friend, experience your wise councellor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

Brilliance of the brain must be admired more than beauty of the body.

A genius is usually born on the way to relentless perfection with tireless persistence.

Rocket shipsare excitingbut so are roseson a birthday.

This man has talent, that man geniusAnd here's the strange and cruel difference:Talent gives pence and his reward is gold, Genius gives gold and gets no more than pence.

It might be said of Miss [Djuna] Barnes, ” [T.S. Eliot] wrote, “who is incontestably one of the most original writers of our time, that never has so much genius been combined with so little talent.

One night I was layin' down, I heard Papa talkin' to Mama, I heard Papa say to let that boy boogie-woogie.'Cause it's in him and it's got to come out.

The turmoil and dislocations confronting present-day society will not be solved until both the scientific and religious genius of the human race are fully utilized.

One who knows what he or she knows as well as what he or she does not know is a genius.

God’s genius is as wide as the cosmos, while by comparison our intelligence can find room on the head of a pin.

Textbook intelligence is not true intelligence. It only marks a man good at memorization.

If there were a master of stupidity in this world, I would really love to listen to his success story.

The path of genius is free, and its own

Perform your task and I shall know you. Perform your task and your genius shall befriend the more.

this was business.

I'm realizing that some of my greatest (or at least most determined) genius lies in my ability to procrastinate.

We're all a genius, but If you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.

In my view, ideas and other intellectual productions are more interesting, more indicative of intelligence, and more productively debated than IQ alone.

Create. Not for the money. Not for the fame. Not for the recognition. But for the pure joy of creating something and sharing it.

It is good people who make good places.

I wondered: if I was so hell-bent on chaos, why would I adopt a military rank? Perhaps there was a part of me that needed rules, needed regulations and order.

Marketing is so powerful that it can make even an extremely untalented musician a one-hundred-hits wonder.

You can be a genius, but you won't get far in life without balance.

Genius is in you, but like a seed, you determine whether it dies or grows.

Don’t try to silence other people’s genius because you’re too deaf to hear your own.

Skill gives you legs to jog, talent gives you legs to run, brilliance gives you legs to sprint, but genius gives you wings to fly.

Your mind has the intellect to lift the world, your heart has the wisdom to better the world, and your soul has the genius to elevate the world.

Stir the world with your skills, shake the world with your talents, move the world with your brilliance, change the world with your genius.

Skill follows the rules, talent breaks the rules, mastery shatters the rules, but genius makes its own rules.

One who thinks for himself is a threat to his enemies, a refuge to his acquaintances, a prize to his friends, and a gift to the world.

In a world full of daisies dare to be a rose.

God hides treasure in dirt, so that only those humble enough to dig through it find it.

It is true love that can activate the beauty and power of true genius.

Fate and destiny are close woven within us and near them can be found the true genius of our lives.

Simple is clever. Complicated just means you haven’t been clever enough to reduce ‘it’ to its essence.

Anyone can put paint on a canvas, but only a true master can bring the painting to life. Anyone can kill, but only a genius can make murder an art.