Genius Quote by Margot Fonteyn Download Open image “Genius is another word for magic.” — Margot Fonteyn ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Genius Inexplicable Intelligence Language Magic Talent and genius
Genius is another word for magic, and the whole point of magic is that it is inexplicable. — Margot Fonteyn Copy Share Image
For a long time I found myself calling so many things "genius." Sometimes you mean it literally and sometimes it's the opposite, but either… — Nir Hod Copy Share Image
Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it. — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
Genius is an overused word. The world has known only about a half dozen geniuses. I got only fairly near. — Fritz Kreisler Copy Share Image
Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The term 'genius' is inapplicable to anyone in this game. A genius is Norman Einstein. — Joe Theismann Copy Share Image
Genius is an intellect that has become unfaithful to its destiny. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
We reserve the term 'genius' for people who are creative, who are innovators, who think in ways that are entirely new. In the Middle… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
Genius - to know without having learned; to draw just conclusions from unknown premises; to discern the soul of things. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Genius still means to me, in my Russian fastidiousness and pride of phrase, a unique dazzling gift. The gift of James Joyce, and not… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
... when I left the stage door and sought my orientation among real people I was in a wilderness of unpredictables in an unchoreographed world. — Margot Fonteyn Copy Share Image
Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life… — Margot Fonteyn Copy Share Image
...wherever one is, some part of oneself remains on another continent. — Margot Fonteyn Copy Share Image
Life forms illogical patterns. It is haphazard and full of beauties which I try to catch as they fly by, for who knows whether… — Margot Fonteyn Copy Share Image
“People who live in big cities are deprieved, consciously or unconsciously, of those almost indefinable things on which our human sensitivity feeds, like the… — Margot Fonteyn Copy Share Image
The world of dance is a natural world from which civilization has divorced many of us by making it appear remote - something reserved… — Margot Fonteyn Copy Share Image
Life offstage has sometimes been a wilderness of unpredictables in an unchoreographed world. — Margot Fonteyn Copy Share Image
Dancing was something to be taken very seriously when engaged in and otherwise put out of mind. — Margot Fonteyn Copy Share Image
I have never wanted to live to be old, so old I'd run out of friends or money. — Margot Fonteyn Copy Share Image
Minor things can become moments of great revelation when encountered for the first time — Margot Fonteyn Copy Share Image
“If people fully understand you, they will think of you as a normal, if they half understand you, will think of you as a… — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
Woman, in short, has an unconscious life, man a conscious life, and the genius the most conscious life. — Otto Weininger Copy Share Image
Next came the Patent laws. These began in England in 1624; and, in this country, with the adoption of our constitution. Before then [these?],… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The truth is I've just never had any kind of plan at all for my career, which is probably not a very flattering thing… — Ty Burrell Copy Share Image
What we shall need is not geniuses, or cynics, or misanthropes, or clever tacticians, but plain, honest, straghtforward men. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
I have no physical genius about me. I can't dribble a ball and run at the same time, I can't do lay-ups - I'm… — Rich Mullins Copy Share Image
I have known many chess players, but among them there has been only one genius - Capablanca! — Emanuel Lasker Copy Share Image
A time will come when the science of destruction shall bend before the arts of peace; when the genius which multiplies our powers, which… — Francois Arago Copy Share Image
One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Treason implies responsibility for something, control over something, influence upon something, knowledge of something. Treason in our time is a proof of genius. Why,… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image