Don't bother about genius. Don't worry about being clever. Trust hard work, perseverance and determination. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I believe 'Sonchiriya' is a film that will be recalled with much pride and respect for many years from now. We all… — Bhumi Pednekar Copy Share Image
Consolation for those moments when you can't tell whether you're the divinest genius or the greatest fool in the world. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The function of genius is not to give new answers, but to pose new questions - which time and mediocrity can solve. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
By and large, talent is in such short supply that mediocrity can be taken for brilliance rather more than genius can go… — Charles Saatchi Copy Share Image
“We begin to become divine by learning to love like the divine loves. And how does the divine love? It loves everyone-including… — Carolyn Elliott Copy Share Image
I bought [John Lennon's] 'Plastic Ono Band,' and I listened to it over and over for months. It's a monumental work of… — Lenny Kravitz Copy Share Image
Those same forces that drive a genius to create the things or ideas that entertain or enlighten us often gobble so much… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
I just want people to recognize my father as an artist who was way ahead of his time. He was a genius.… — Freddie Prinze, Jr Copy Share Image
I've made money, and I've been ripped off. I've had creative freedom, and I've been pressured to make hits. I have dealt… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
Beauty and art pervade all the business of life like a kindly genius, brightly adorning our surroundings whether interior or exterior, mitigating… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
Postal inspectors have been given advanced warning that Publishers Clearinghouse is sending packets of laundry detergent that could be mistaken for anthrax.… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
I admire Russell Simmons. He is a successful dude that has done a little bit of everything. He keeps it moving, and… — J. B. Smoove Copy Share Image
Richard Feynman was fond of giving the following advice on how to be a genius. You have to keep a dozen of… — Gian-Carlo Rota Copy Share Image
Nowadays people talk about PayPal's founders as prescient geniuses who would inevitably change the world. It was, however, not so obvious that… — Eric Ries Copy Share Image
“Kindness is strength. Good-nature is often mistaken for virtue, and good health sometimes passes for genius. Anger blows out the lamp of… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Everyone is a genius. But if you judge a fish on its ability to climb a tree, it will live its life… — Lee Jameson Copy Share Image
The genius of any slave system is found in the dynamics which isolate slaves from each other, obscure the reality of a… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
“The genius of the American system is that we have created extraordinary results from plain old people.” — Phil Gramm Copy Share Image
Southerners have a genius for psychological alchemy...If something intolerable simply cannot be changed, driven away or shot they will not only tolerate… — Florence King Copy Share Image
I was painfully shy when I was younger but at some point you've gotta grow up. I think the genius in the… — Bill Burr Copy Share Image
It was a vicious cycle, though. The more gratification we found in our own geniuses, the more isolated we grew. — Alison Bechdel Copy Share Image
The genius' behind the new Rocky movie decided to call it Rocky Balboa so that we'll probably forget that it's number six.… — Doug Benson Copy Share Image
The definition of genius is that it acts unconsciously, and those who have produced immortal works have done so without knowing how… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Genius is expansive, irresistible, and irresistibly expansive. If it is in you, no cords can confine it. — Mary Abigail Dodge Copy Share Image
“Genius was being born in her, filling the empty spaces in her bed, her heart, her womb. She needed no-one but herself.” — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
But I just know from experience that accent wise, even if you're an accent genius, crossing the Atlantic is the hardest thing… — Hugh Grant Copy Share Image
Mike gets to play four roles this time, if we ever did it again, he will play my role as well. He… — Michael York Copy Share Image
I'm a massive fan of Brit Art in general and Damien Hirst in particular. I think he's an absolute genius and should… — David Morrissey Copy Share Image
It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
There is nothing that human imagination can figure brilliant and enviable that human genius and skill do not aspire to realize. — William Godwin Copy Share Image
Genius does not care much for a set of explicit regulations, but that does not mean that genius is lawless. — Charles Henry Parkhurst Copy Share Image
It wasn't an excuse. It was a fact. He'd had to make his way alone, and no one—not rock stars, not professional… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
I would like to attribute my range of interests to being an independent intellectual, but although I'm independent, I'm not sure I… — Anne Fadiman Copy Share Image
There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet. — Novalis Copy Share Image
All the truly deep people have at the core of their being the genius to be simple or to know how to… — Martin E. Marty Copy Share Image
An art form requires genius. People of genius are always troublemakers, meaning they start from scratch, demolish accepted norms, and rebuild a… — Henri Langlois Copy Share Image
I would predicate that in all great works of genius masculine and feminine elements in the personality find expression, whether this androgynous… — May Sarton Copy Share Image