“Talent isn't genius, and no amount of energy can make it so. I want to be great, or nothing.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
If I had an idea for a genius app, don't you think I would be getting it made immediately? — Amanda Crew Copy Share Image
The term 'genius' is inapplicable to anyone in this game. A genius is Norman Einstein. — Joe Theismann Copy Share Image
Genius is the gold in the mine, talent is the miner who works and brings it out. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The world is not so much in need of new thoughts as that when thought grows old and worn with usage it… — Alexander Smith Copy Share Image
Anyone is capable of anything (will plus belief is ability) if they themselves create the opportune moment and incentive. Heaven gives no… — Austin Osman Spare Copy Share Image
This adoration of an artist as a lone genius is quite misled, I think, because they are very much part of their… — Hannah Gadsby Copy Share Image
The US patent system adds the fuel of interest to the fire of genius in the discovery and production of new and… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
People generally treat me like I'm very intelligent and really, I'm much less intelligent than she is. Scully is insanely intelligent. — Gillian Anderson Copy Share Image
Genius inspires this thirst for fame: there is no blessing undesired by those to whom Heaven gave the means of winning it. — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
I don't buy into the phrase 'comedy genius.' It's like football; you can have the talent, but 90 per cent is hard… — Josh Widdicombe Copy Share Image
There is no hierarchy of values any more. Real progress is due mainly to human genius, and that's rare, and usually stems… — Vivienne Westwood Copy Share Image
Realism should only be the means of expression of religious genius... or, at the other extreme, the artistic expressions of monkeys which… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Carlyle's genius was many-sided. He touched and ennobled the national life at all points. He lifted a whole generation of young men… — Hector Carsewell Macpherson Copy Share Image
Scientists like myself merely use their gifts to show up that which already exists, and we look small compared to the artists… — Max Perutz Copy Share Image
The peril of every fine faculty is the delight of playing with it for pride. Talent is commonly developed at the expense… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I say that the genius of the marketing strategy that we've had in every company that I've ever been in, is that… — John J. Legere Copy Share Image
The guy, Magic Johnson, built a business empire and you don't do that just because you have a pretty smile. The guy… — Mychal Thompson Copy Share Image
While the world may feel entitled and have the power to pronounce an individual crazy, are there times when the innocent genius,… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
The architects who benefit us most maybe those generous enough to lay aside their claims to genius in order to devote themselves… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
There is no greater consolation for mediocrity than that the genius is not immortal. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The genius of life is friendly to the noble, and, in the dark, brings them friends from far. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Even the people who have it do not definitely know what genius is. — Mary Hunter Austin Copy Share Image
It doesn't take a military genius to see we'll all be crispy critters after World War III. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is not genius, nor glory, nor love that reflects the greatness of the human soul; it is kindness. — Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire Copy Share Image
Joss Whedon who created 'Buffy The Vampire Slayer,' 'Angel,' and all that... he is a genius. — Christian Kane Copy Share Image
The first thing the world does to a genius is to make him lose all his youth. — Clarence Day Copy Share Image
A sniper is like a genius - it’s not enough to be one, you have to be one at something. — Steve Aylett Copy Share Image
Why do people criticise his intelligence when he can do something as miraculous as that? — Shania Twain Copy Share Image
