Genius Quotes
2455 Genius quotes by 1428 unique authors
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You need others. Too often people think that being unique means being isolated, and being a great artist means coming up with genius ideas out…
— John Lasseter
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In Spanish, we have a saying that when a genius points at the moon, a fool looks at the finger. I find that happens a…
— Wences Casares
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What is a genius? A person who demands little to nothing from others, but is often found extremely difficult to have around.
— Criss Jami
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I think Yelena Akhtiorskaya is a genius. What she manages to do, linguistically and emotionally, in the span of a single sentence, is astonishing.
— Keith Gessen
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People actually ask me why I bring in projects on budget and on time. It seems I am not living up to the fashionable genius…
— Curtis W. Fentress
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You can't hang around geniuses forever because they end up taking everything you've got. That's why they're the genius and you're not.
— Bob Colacello
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A man who is morally clean, other things being equal, has in every instance, greater agility, greater capacity, and greater endurance by far than the…
— Christian D. Larson
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When I think of musical geniuses, I think of Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, Michael Jackson and Prince. That's who comes to mind.
— R. Kelly
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Artistic genius is an expansion of monkey imitativeness.
— William Winwood Reade
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Martin Freeman is a genius, he really is. He gives you every color of the rainbow in every take and it's wonderful just to play…
— Lara Pulver
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When you're onstage with Chris Rock, anything can happen. He is one of the greatest comic geniuses we've ever seen.
— Yul Vazquez
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Humble birth did not retard his genius, nor high place corrupt his soul.
— Cass Gilbert
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I realized what you could do in motion pictures by surrounding yourself with geniuses.
— Richard Donner
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My favorite types of movies definitely aren't thrillers, but at the same time you can't deny the genius of Hitchcock's films.
— Aaron Yoo
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The true secret to genius is in creativity, not in technical mechanics.
— Al Seckel
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Talent is full of thoughts, Genius is thought. Talent is a cistern, Genius a fountain.
— Edwin Percy Whipple
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Wit is often a mask. If you tear it you will find either genius irritated or cleverness juggling.
— Khalil Gibran
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It is necessary for the welfare of society that genius should be privileged to utter sedition, to blaspheme, to outrage good taste, to corrupt the…
— George Bernard Shaw
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Genius does not need a special language; it uses newly whatever tongue it finds.
— Edmund Clarence Stedman
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Talent jogs to conclusions to which Genius takes giant leaps.
— Edwin Percy Whipple
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Extemporaneous and oral harangues will always have this advantage over those that are read from a in manuscript: every burst of eloquence or spark of…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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Supreme art is a traditional statement of certain heroic and religious truth, passed on from age to age, modified by individual genius, but never abandoned.
— William Butler Yeats
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Some people have a perfect genius for doing nothing, and doing it assiduously.
— Thomas Chandler Haliburton
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Genius is by definition a style of consciousness characterized by the ability to access high energy attractor patterns. It is not a personality characteristic. It…
— David R. Hawkins
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No man can exactly calculate the capacity of human genius and stupidity, nor the incapacity of will.
— B. H. Liddell Hart
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