Genius Quotes - Page 17

One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible.

Geniuses must never die, the progress of mankind depends on us

Genius has to pass over madness and madness over genius

I'm going to live forever. Geniuses don't die.

The straight roads are the roads of progress, the crooked roads are thee roads of genius.

Artistic judgments are silly if expressed as dogmas, at least until we get an "artometer" which can measure objectively how many micro-michelangelos or kilo-homers of genius a given artifact has in it.

Be a good craftsman; it won't stop you from being a genius.

It will work. I am a marketing genius.

Universality is the distinguishing mark of genius. There is no such thing as a special genius, a genius for mathematics, or for music, or even for chess, but only a universal genius. The genius is a man who knows everything without having learned it.

A true calling is aimed at the genius qualities already set within each person.

Take back the beauty and wit you bestow upon me; leave me my own mediocrity of agreeableness and genius, but leave me also my sincerity, my constancy, and my plain dealing; 'Tis all I have to recommend me to the esteem either of others or myself.

The real wonder is not that one man should be a genius, but that every man should not be.

Of all the projects I've worked on, I've never worked with another director like Billy Friedkin. I think he's a genius.

I would say Steven Spielberg is family to me. He's a genius. We survived a hurricane together. I ran from half-puppet,half-nothing creatures. It was months of our life as family. It was the wildest film, Jurassic Park, I'd ever worked on that way.

We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in color and fire.

Genius must be born, and never can be taught.

We must have recourse to the rules of music when our genius and our ear seem to deny what we are seeking.

There's no such thing as a genius in politics, or at least I have never met one. There are only human beings, some better than others, who rise or fall on the challenges they meet.

What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road empirically, following one's nose, taking shortcuts.

Will and energy sometimes prove greater than either genius or talent or temperament.

If men of genius only knew what love their works inspire!

If someone can write great music... Paul McCartney is a genius. He's so prolific. All we should do is bow down to Paul McCartney.

Jennifer Aniston is a genius.

Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there.

We are all geniuses when we dream.