You don't find geniuses in street musicians, but that doesn't mean to say you can't be really good. — Jimmy Page Copy Share Image
“Genius will only take you to 'good.' Practice will take you to 'Master.” — Mercedes Lackey Copy Share Image
You don't have to be a political genius to sniff the smell of blood in the water. — Rich Galen Copy Share Image
Common sense is a vastly overrated virtue. I myself prefer the spark of genius. — Margaret Millar Copy Share Image
Greatness is the reward for genius... only a few can be great, the rest are plain good. — Siddharth Katragadda Copy Share Image
All children paint like geniuses. What do we do to them that so quickly dulls this ability? — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
The highest wisdom and the highest genius have been invariably accompanied with cheerfulness. We have sufficient proofs on record that Shakespeare and… — Thomas Love Peacock Copy Share Image
Any man's greatness is a tribute to the nobility of all mankind, so when we celebrate the genius of [Leo] Tolstoy, we… — Mel Brooks Copy Share Image
To beat Federer 3 times does not mean anything he is a genius whose hair does not even move when he plays. — Guillermo Canas 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
Talk not of genius baffled. Genius is master of man. Genius does what it must, and Talent does what it can. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton 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
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
“the public will only stand genius in infintesimal doses,sprinkled with mannerisms and fashionable literature...A fashionable genius!Doesn't that make you laugh?..what a waste… — Romain Rolland Copy Share Image
If you win a Super Bowl before you're fired, you're a genius, and everyone listens to you. But a coach is just… — John Madden Copy Share Image
Poor, unhappy Erik! Shall we pity him? Shall we curse him? He asked only to be 'some one,' like everybody else. But… — Gaston Leroux Copy Share Image
I do feel very strongly that this is one of the things which people need encouragement to sort out, because I have… — Diana Wynne Jones Copy Share Image
Object to merit and distinction, and you're setting your face against quality, independence, originality, genius against all the richness and variety of… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
“Misunderstood! It is a right fool's word. Is it so bad then to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There's something very funny about giving a menial task to a genius and watching him find so much complexity and overanalyse it… — Simon Helberg Copy Share Image
People bought bitcoin because they thought it would be worth more tomorrow. And a lot of people got lucky. But we're not… — Taavet Hinrikus Copy Share Image
As actors, we deal with rejection so much more than any other business. So I don't care how much of a genius… — Ryan Kwanten Copy Share Image