Genius Quotes · Page 90

Genius and sunshine have this in common that they are the two most precious gifts of heaven to earth, and are dispensed…

— Anna Brownell Jameson

The thing about genius is it will never yield to circumstances. Genius regards what's given as the beginning of its need to…

— June Jordan

Genius is to other gifts what the carbuncle is to the precious stones. It sends forth its own light, whereas other stones…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

I was obsessed with Eminem when I was younger. When he first came out I was about 12 and fanatical about his…

— Robert Pattinson

I've seen high and lows. When things go well that doesn't make me feel like some genius. Nor will I allow the…

— Ben Affleck

If you criticize a fine genius, the odds are that you are out of your reckoning, and, instead of the poet, are…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

'AVP' is not trying to be 'Alien' or 'Aliens,' and it's not trying to be 'Predator.' Those are genius movies.

— Paul W. S. Anderson

When you deal with Alan Ball, you're dealing with a person who is a genius in terms of how art imitates life.

— Nelsan Ellis

I worship nothing. Not a good lie nor a dark one. If nature is proof of God's amazing creation then I have…

— Gary Numan

James Gandolfini was a genius. Anyone who saw him even in the smallest of his performances knows that. He is one of…

— David Chase

Professor Hawking is heralded as 'the genius of Britain,' yet he believes in the scientific impossibility that nothing created everything and that…

— Kirk Cameron

The idea of Jonathan Rhys Meyers as Dracula, all I could think of was, why haven't they done this with him before?…

— Victoria Smurfit

I started playing bass in my friend's band for some reason. It was just something I did because, well, he asked me…

— Jens Lekman

I really cannot know whether I am or am not the Genius you are pleased to call me, but I am very…

— Lord Byron

I always wondered, you know I watch "Cops" all the time - why doesn't a drug dealer design a trap door under…

— Kellan Lutz

A Heart So White is simply one of the best novels I know. I'm also thrilled by Javier Marías sentences, by how…

— Garth Greenwell

“Finding someone’s native genius is a key that unlocks discretionary effort. It propels people to go beyond what is required and to…

— Liz Wiseman

Life is not about discovering our talents; it is about pushing our talents to the limit and discovering our genius.

— Robert Breault

In Spanish, we have a saying that when a genius points at the moon, a fool looks at the finger. I find…

— Wences Casares

The combined wisdom and genius of all mankind cannot possibly conceive of an argument against liberty of thought.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Rising genius always shoots forth its rays from among clouds and vapours, but these will gradually roll away and disappear, as it…

— Washington Irving

There are lots of cycles to markets - boom and bust - and also in perceptions of people. The conventional wisdom of…

— Steve Case

There is one qualification the manager cannot acquire but must bring to the task. It is not genius; it is character.

— Peter Drucker

...That genius is a rare exception (:) It's not true. Talent and genius have been wasted on enormous scale throughout our history;…

— Eric Hoffer

Whatever happened to Trump Airlines? How about Trump University? And then there's Trump Magazine and Trump Vodka and Trump Steaks, and Trump…

— Mitt Romney

President Obama's view of a free economy is to send your money to his friends. My vision for a free enterprise economy…

— Mitt Romney

Yesterday I was thinking about the whole idea of genius and creative people, and the notion that if you create some magical…

— Bell Hooks

Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius. The best things in life come in threes;…

— Punkinhead Abhishek

Men of great genius and large heart sow the seeds of a new degree of progress in the world, but they bear…

— Giuseppe Mazzini

I know quite a few fellow members of the news analysis and commentary business, and I have it from the highest-placed sources,…

— P. J. O'Rourke

There are probably brilliant people, geniuses, alive today who don't even know how to say, "Hello, how do you do?" because their…

— Beth Henley

It is all very well to talk about being the captain of your soul. It is hard, and only a few heroes,…

— Walter Lippmann

There's something exceptional about watching a video and simultaneously thinking 'That was genius!' and 'I could have done that!'

— Hank Green

Obey thy genius, for a minister it is unto the throne of fate. Draw to thy soul, and centralize the rays which…

— Philip James Bailey

Nature is mythical and mystical always, and works with the license and extravagance of genius. She has her luxurious and florid style…

— Henry David Thoreau

“We are all genius in our own way. Never stop trying to find your inner know-it-all because it's in all of us.”

— Jazmin Bois

Both wit and understanding are trifles without integrity. The ignorant peasant without fault is greater than the philosopher with many. What is…

— Oliver Goldsmith

There is no such thing as unfortunate genius; if a man or woman is fit for work, God appoints the field.

— Adah Isaacs Menken

Genius is no respecter of time, trouble, money or persons, the four things around which human affairs turn most persistently.

— Samuel Butler

I've seen the player who will inherit my place in Argentinian football and his name is Messi... He's a leader and is…

— Diego Maradona