Jim Carrey, a comic genius, has a harder time overcoming the public's desire for him to be funny simply because he's so… — Ben Stiller Copy Share Image
“A native genius or talent is something that people do, not only exceptionally well, but absolutely naturally. They do it easily (without… — Liz Wiseman Copy Share Image
Chance... in the accommodation peculiar to sensorimotor intelligence, plays the same role as in scientific discovery. It is only useful to the… — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
The genius of democracies is seen not only in the great number of new words introduced but even more in the new… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
The genius-in work and in deed-is necessarily a squanderer: the fact that he spends himself constitutes his greatness. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Genius seems to consist merely in trueness of sight, in using such words as show that the man was an eye-witness, and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If the birth of a genius resembles that of an idiot, the end of a Havana Corona resembles that of a 5-cent… — Sacha Guitry Copy Share Image
This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists,… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Michael Jackson fundamentally altered the terms of the debate about African American music. Remember, he was a chocolate, cherubic-faced genius with an… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
That’s what I thought. When I looked that human in the face. I figured he was either a genius or crazy.” Artemis’s… — Eoin Colfer Copy Share Image
My dad [Johnny Cash] went to the [Richard] Nixon White House and refused to sing "Welfare Cadillac" (instead performing the anti-war songs… — Rosanne Cash Copy Share Image
I must have just dreamed that about Liverpool playing 3-4-3. What do people think that was, a bit of luck? A British… — Brendan Rodgers Copy Share Image
Right now I think I'm the smartest I've ever been. I'm doing everything great now and everything perfect. Like with this taxes… — Kendra Wilkinson Copy Share Image
For I think it is the case with genius that it is not when quiescent so very much above mediocrity as the… — Gerard Manley Hopkins Copy Share Image
When I was younger I would have told you it was my genius, but now I don't believe that for a second.… — Tracii Guns Copy Share Image
I intend to work for this dance of the future. I do not know whether I have the necessary qualities; I may… — Isadora Duncan Copy Share Image
Force always attracts men of low morality, and I believe it to be an invariable rule that tyrants of genius are succeeded… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
To express himself well, the artist should be hidden. The trouble is that if an artist knows he has genius, he's done… — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in the dark… — Billy Wilder Copy Share Image
The coffeehouse is good for genius, and the Viennese coffeehouse is a classic case. Freud had his favorite coffee shop, and so… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
My love of Green Day is on so many levels. It's their genius for songwriting, the fact that they write about very… — Tom Kitt Copy Share Image
“Everybody is a genius but if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will spend its whole… — Babatunde Kolawole Copy Share Image
The genius of anyone can be questioned if considered alongside the right other someone. Consider Thomas Edison and Bill Gates. — Cellan Slarcas Copy Share Image
I am not good. I am not virtuous. I am not sympathetic. I am not generous. I am merely and above all… — Mary MacLane Copy Share Image
“My one friend is a screwup—a genius blessed with the most beautiful girl in the world, and he doesn’t even know it.” — Ned Vizzini Copy Share Image
“A great person or thing does not gain even a fraction of a single degree of greatness, when complimented; or lose it,… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“It’s no coincidence that geniuses not only dare to dream of the impossible for their work, but do the same for their… — Sean Patrick Copy Share Image
We wish genius and morality where affectionate companions, but it is a fact that they are often bitter enemies. They don't necessarily… — Artemas Ward Copy Share Image
Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but, less by assimilation than by friction. — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
An ordinary mistake is one that leads to a dead end, while a profound mistake is one that leads to progress. Anyone… — Frank Wilczek Copy Share Image
Ronnie O'Sullivan, the greatest snooker player ever, will tell you that he doesn't practise. I'm not having that. I call him Roger,… — Jimmy White Copy Share Image
“Imagination is the life force of the genius code. This force amplifies and colors every other piece of the code, and unlocks… — Sean Patrick Copy Share Image
I was taught Shakespeare brilliantly by an eccentric genius at Harrow named Jeremy Lemmon who made me want to be a writer. — Simon Sebag Montefiore Copy Share Image
Luckily for us, now that steam has narrowed the Atlantic to a strait, the nervous, rocky West is intruding a new and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Artistic judgments are silly if expressed as dogmas, at least until we get an "artometer" which can measure objectively how many micro-michelangelos… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect, either physical or spiritual, for… — Max Beerbohm Copy Share Image
The genius of the Spanish people is exquisitely subtle, without being at all acute; hence there is so much humour and so… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Calvin: I'm a genius. I can't believe how smart I am. ...I've got more brains than I know what to do with.… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
So a military force has no constant formation, water has no constant shape: the ability to gain victory by changing and adapting… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
Silence Of A Genius Is More Dangerous Than Weapons With Great Noise. Patience Of A Good Person Is Powerful Than Anger Of… — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image