Connections Quote by Christopher Ricks

A genius is somebody who seemingly just reaches out of nowhere.

— Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person.

— Immanuel Kant

Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Geniuses are people who dash off weird, wild, incomprehensible poems with astonishing facility, & then go & get booming drunk & sleep in the…

— Mark Twain

A genius is someone who can tolerate the discomfort of uncertainty while generating as many ideas as possible.

— Marty Neumeier

The term 'genius' is inapplicable to anyone in this game. A genius is Norman Einstein.

— Joe Theismann

Genius is an intellect that has become unfaithful to its destiny.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

A genius is a man who does unique things of which nobody would expect him to be capable.

— E. V. Lucas

The definition of genius, really, should be that that person can do what the rest of us have to learn how to do.

— James Lipton

... Geniuses have a little extra something. There's that little something that you know is a little different.

— Billy Eckstine

Genius is an overused word. The world has known only about a half dozen geniuses. I got only fairly near.

— Fritz Kreisler

Geniuses are those who have the intelligence, enthusiasm, and endurance to acquire the needed expertise in a broadly valued domain of achievement and who…

— Dean Keith Simonton