Genius Quotes · Page 53

“It’s not the genius of an idea that makes it great. Rather, it’s the courage to pursue it.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

It's easy to be a genius in your twenties. In your forties, it's difficult.

— Robbie Robertson

Modest expression is a beautiful setting to the diamond of talent and genius.

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

“Emang, batas antara genius dan gila cuma setipis kertas!”

— Windhy Puspitadewi

Genius can only breathe freely in an atmosphere of freedom.

— John Stuart Mill

Talent is that which is in a man's power; genius is that in whose power a man is.

— James Russell Lowell

“The secret to genius is not genetics but daily ritual married with perseverance.”

— Sravani Saha Nakhro

I truly miss the genius of the music of John Lennon, as I'm sure everybody does.

— Peter Fonda

The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature.…

— Henry David Thoreau

To me there's a fine line between genius and crazy and sometimes you don't know which way it will steer you.

— Al B. Sure

“Men of genius themselves were great only by bringing all their power to bear on the point on which they had decided…

— Cal Newport

Many a profound genius, I suppose, who fills the world with fame of his exploding renowned errors, is yet everyday posed and…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category.

— Adolf Hitler

Being the most striking manifestation of the art of metal structures by which our engineers have shown in Europe, it [the Eiffel…

— Gustave Eiffel

Often-times it's madness, not genius that moves the world forward. Who else but the mad would reach so far, stretching for the…

— James Rollins

“If genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration, then as a culture we tend to lionize the one percent.”

— Susan Cain

There are no rules. You can write a story, if you wish, with no conflict, no suspense, no beginning, middle or end.…

— Fredric Brown

I sought for the greatness and genius of America in her commodious harbors and her ample rivers, and it was not there;…

— W. Cleon Skousen

He [Jesus] was the greatest human being who has ever lived. He was a moral genius. His ethical sense was unique. He…

— Charles Templeton

“All people have regrets. Warriors are no exceptions. One would hope it was possible to distinguish between events caused by one's carelessness…

— Timothy Zahn

When I wrote 'My Humps,' I said, 'This is the stupidest thing ever,' but in a good way. I always wondered what…

— will.i.am

One of the marks of true genius is a quality of abundance. A rich, rollicking abundance, enough to give indigestion to ordinary…

— Catherine Drinker Bowen

Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius, throwing the reader of a book, or the…

— Isaac D'Israeli

...but then the general trouble with ignorance is always that the ignorant person has no idea that that's what they are. You…

— Louis de Bernieres

Genius, by its very intensity, decrees a special path of fire for its vivid power.

— Phillips Brooks

I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.

— Oscar Wilde

Apple has lost a visionary and creative genius, and the world has lost an amazing human being.

— Tim Cook

Genius is not dependent on playing safe or by the book, but by moving around your imagination hook.

— Tasneem Hameed

“For a super-genius, you can be pretty stupid sometimes.”

— Emily Bentz

Spare functional furniture, in my opinion, is the genius of 20th-century design.

— Luca Guadagnino

The collision of a great man with a great idea strikes fire in dry flax.

— Austin O'Malley

“Don't kill the Genius in you by doubting your abilities to create impact in the world.”

— Jeekeshen Chinnappen

From haunted spring and dale Edg'd with poplar pale The parting genius is with sighing sent.

— John Milton

The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

— Oscar Wilde

“I maybe uneducated and unworldly, but I'm not stupid or unread.”

— Charlaine Harris

AB de Villiers is the definition of a Cricketing Genius

— Michael Vaughan

I am so smart, I am so smart, S M R T, I mean S M A R T.

— Nikhil Saluja

“A genius in the wrong position could look like a fool.”

— Idowu Koyenikan

Any idiot can be complicated. It takes a genius to be simple.

— Pete Seeger

I wish I was this dark genius artist - like Richard Pryor or something.

— Artie Lange