Genius Quotes

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Homer is one of the men of genius who solve that fine problem of art - the finest of all, perhaps - truly to depict… — Victor Hugo
A man writes because he is tormented, because he doubts. He needs to constantly prove to himself and the others that he’s worth something. And… — Andrei Tarkovsky
Clearly the hardest thing for the working artist is to create his own conception and follow it, unafraid of the strictures it imposes, however rigid… — Andrei Tarkovsky
Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark. — William James
The art of leadership . . . consists in consolidating the attention of the people against a single adversary and taking care that nothing will… — Adolf Hitler
I believe it is no wrong Observation, that Persons of Genius, and those who are most capable of Art, are always fond of Nature, as… — Alexander Pope
The American people...have a stake in non-conformity. For they know that the American genius is non-conformist. — Henry Steele Commager
Adlai Stevenson has a genius for saying the right thing, at the right time, to the wrong people. — Joe E. Lewis
In Spain in the meantime, Aristotelian scholar Juan Gines de Sepulveda was putting the impolitic moralizing of Las Casas into proper perspective for posterity: "Compare… — Juan Gines de Sepulveda
Geniuses are like thunderstorms. They go against the wind, terrify people, cleanse the air. — Soren Kierkegaard
Regarding The Music Man, Jay Nordlinger wrote: The Music Man (for which Willson also wrote the lyrics) is an astonishing creation. It came in a… — Meredith Willson
The best genius is that which absorbs and assimilates everything without doing the least violence to its fundamental destiny. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A genius is the man in whom you are least likely to find the power of attending to anything insipid or distasteful in itself. He… — William James
Genius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering pot and the pruning knife. — Margaret Fuller
The only folk I can judge are people like Woody Allen who I think is a genius, largely because I think he has beaten the… — Nigel Kneale
Intelligence and genius — Albert Einstein
When you step back and watch people, you realize that we use every single body part. Movement, dance - I find it genius because it's… — Jude Law
I used to say to my auntie, 'You throw my fu*kin' poetry out, and you'll regret it when I'm famous,' and she threw the bast*rd… — John Lennon
The best CEOs in our research display tremendous ambition for their company combined with the stoic will to do whatever it takes, no matter how… — James C. Collins
Wifehood and motherhood... are a bigger handicap than the average male genius would... essay to carry to success. — Unknown Author
Philosophy becomes poetry, and science imagination, in the enthusiasm of genius. — Isaac D'Israeli
Mir Bahadur Ali is, as we have seen, incapable of evading the most vulgar of art's temptations: that of being a genius. — Jorge Luis Borges
Genius points the way, talent takes it. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
The golden hour of invention must terminate like other hours, and when the man of genius returns to the cares, the duties, the vexations, and… — Isaac D'Israeli
For four years, we didn't do any 'Halloweens,' ... But I believed in it. It's not a genius creation or anything. But whenever Halloween season… — Moustapha Akkad

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