Genius Quotes · Page 42

Genius doesn't work on an assembly line basis. You can't simply say, 'Today I will be brilliant.'

— Anonymous

I put my talent in my work, I save my Genius for my life.

— Oscar Wilde

As is the inventor of murder, and the father of art, Cain must have been a man of first-rate genius.

— Thomas de Quincey

“We don't punish the ones who fail. They just-don't go on,”

— Orson Scott Card

No kid is unsmart. Every kid's a genius at something. Our job is to find it. And then encourage it.

— Robin Sharma

…because talent isn't genius, and no amount of energy can make it so. I want to be great, or nothing.

— Louisa May Alcott

Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.

— Victor Hugo

“There is no great genius without tincture of madness.”

— Seneca

I feel very fortunate to have been associated with people such as Rodgers and Hammerstein. I think they were geniuses of their…

— Shirley Jones

“You see Miss Gertrude is a genius. And a genius is a genius. So what if no one understands a word she…

— Jonah Winter

“Where there’s madness, there’s genius. Where there is genius, there’s creativity. We all have it somewhere within us; that hint of madness,…

— Melody Lee

Those rare individuals society labels geniuses are almost always freaks of nature and are naturally gifted rather than being diligent students who…

— James Morcan

“There's a fine line between stuff, and if you stare at it long enough it'll drive you insane or to genius”

— Josh Stern

While Genius was thus wasting his strength in eccentric flights, I saw a person of a very different appearance, named Application.

— Anna Letitia Barbauld

The particulars of life do not matter to the artist; they merely provide him with the opportunity to lay bare his genius.

— Marcel Proust

I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the variety of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius…

— Igor Stravinsky

All the greatest men are maniacs. They are possessed by a mania which drives them forward towards thier goal. The great scientists,…

— Ian Fleming

“[On Chopin's Preludes :] "His genius was filled with the mysterious sounds of nature, but transformed into sublime equivalents in musical thought,…

— George Sand

The slightest force, when it is applied to assist and guide the natural descent of its object, operates with irresistible weight; and…

— Edward Gibbon

There's a really brilliant photographer who's deceased who in my sort of fashion and modelling days, I was fortunate enough to get…

— Gabriel Mann

I consider Otto Rank to be one of the great spiritual giants of the twentieth century, a genius as a psychologist and…

— Matthew Fox

The genius of capitalism consists precisely in its lack of morality. Unless he is rich enough to hire his own choir, a…

— Lewis H. Lapham

Ronald Reagan knew audiences. It was a key element of his political genius. One of the things at which brilliant politicians are…

— Rick Perlstein

“It is good to recall that three centuries ago, around the year 1660, two of the greatest monuments of modern history were…

— Abdus Salam

Labeled fools to the world are geniuses to the cosmos.

— Criss Jami

They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates.

— D. H. Lawrence

Creative genius is a divinely bestowed gift which is the coronation of the few.

— Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

Some people think I'm a mythical genius, others think I'm a junkie madman.

— Keith Richards

Robert Rodriguez is a genius, and I'm a huge fan of his.

— Jeremy Piven

Fischer is the greatest genius to descend from the chess heavens.

— Mikhail Tal

I've always been sensible with my money. I can't say I'm a business genius.

— Jasper Carrott

The young man reveres men of genius, because, to speak truly, they are more himself than he is.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it

— Horace

“We owe most of our great inventions and most of the achievements of genius to idleness.”

— Agatha Christie

“No tricks, no tools, but talent makes a task truly top class.”

— Amit Kalantri

I believe that mediocrity is self-inflicted and that genius is self-bestowed.

— Walter Russell

There is a genius in every man and woman, waiting to be brought forth.

— Wallace D. Wattles

“For the first time, Ender had found a living mind he could admire.”

— Orson Scott Card

excessive fear and self-doubt that were the greatest detractors of personal genius.

— Anonymous

That adage about genius being 5 percent inspiration and 95 perspiration - it's true.

— Yanni