Genius Quotes · Page 60

Nabokov quote: "I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child."

— Nick Laird

Inventive genius requires pleasurable mental activity as a condition for its vigorous exercise

— Alfred North Whitehead

And yes, again, that was it exactly. A retyper and not a writer. A prodigy and not a genius.

— John Green

Sometimes you can learn more from watching an idiot than you can from listening to a genius

— Sarah Moores

Genius is a word too often tossed around in musical circles.

— Stanley Jordan

Messi always makes the right decision, whether it's a pass or a finish. He's a little genius.

— Gary Lineker

There is no genius in life like the genius of energy and industry.

— Donald G. Mitchell

“Exercise your genius so often that you live in a perpetual state of runners high.”

— Curtis Tyrone Jones

... the genius never makes anything new, but always something that is just different, and the average talents provide him the possibility…

— Robert Musil

Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.

— Alexander Pope

For four years, we didn't do any 'Halloweens,' ... But I believed in it. It's not a genius creation or anything. But…

— Moustapha Akkad

Every genius is a great child; he gazes out at the world as something strange, a spectacle, and therefore with purely objective…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

I started a funny book from the 1930s called The Code of the Woosters by P. G. Wodehouse. Wodehouse is a comic…

— William Gurstelle

Indians take great pleasure in celebrating a genius, and then go into mindless criticism once the celebrity starts doing well.

— Chinmayi

I’m the archetype of a disabled genius, or should I say a physically challenged genius, to be politically correct. At least I’m…

— Stephen Hawking

The host of men who stand between a great thinker and the average man are not automatic transmitters. They work on the…

— Walter Lippmann

I remember I was really into this British band, The Vapors, with that song "Turning Japanese." I thought that they were really…

— Craig Finn

I can't spell or do grammar, but I'm smarter and more serious than people think. I'm no featherweight when it comes to…

— Cher

Even as a young man, Vito Corleone became known as a "man of reasonableness." He never uttered a threat. He always used…

— Mario Puzo

Criticism is above all a gift, an intuition, a matter of tact and flair; it cannot be taught or demonstrated--it is an…

— Henri Frederic Amiel

Will is the measure of power. To a great genius there must be a great will. If the thought is not a…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are two very different types of artists: those I call Old Masters, who work by trial and error and tend to…

— David Galenson

To be bound by traditional martial art style or styles is the way of the mindless, enslaved martial artist. But to be…

— Bruce Lee

That's what I am, Frank thought, an ordinary genius. He had unlocked the secret of radio. The sport of the ordinary! Brillliant…

— Garrison Keillor

No one is obliged to be a genius, but everyone is obliged to participate.

— Philippe Starck

“You’re a genius,” she said. “Hardly,” he said. “I just show up and pay attention.”

— Stephen Hunter

His dad said even the cavemen had geniuses among them. Somebody had thought up the wheel.

— Suzanne Collins

Berlusconi is a genius in communication. Otherwise, he would never have become so rich.

— Umberto Eco

Indulge, and to thy genius freely give, For not to live at ease is not to live.

— Aulus Persius Flaccus

Women, in general, are not attracted to art at all, nor knowledge, and not at all to genius.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The greatest geniuses sometimes accomplish more when they work less.

— Leonardo da Vinci

The stigma of oddness is the price a myopic world always exacts of genius.

— Amy Lowell

“I have an uncompromising principle against the use of AI in literature.”

— Abhijit Naskar

Blood is a destiny. One's genius descends in the stream from long lines of ancestry.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

The prevailing view is that geniuses are largely built, not born.

— David Brooks

Genius disregards the boundaries of propriety. Genius is permitted to shout if shouting is productive.

— Lois Lowry

“Genius is a thing that happens, not a kind of person.”

— Jordan Ellenberg

Why does it so often take a genius to see the obvious?

— Ashleigh Brilliant

Truly great madness can not be achieved without significant intelligence.

— Henrik Tikkanen

A man of genius is unbearable, unless he possesses at least two things besides: gratitude and purity.

— Friedrich Nietzsche