Genius Quotes - Page 20

I loved Stephen Wright, and I loved Mitch Hedberg, but they seemed like geniuses you could never emulate. You'd just be ripping them off.

Unless one is a genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible.

The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.

God, conquered, will become Satan; Satan, conquering, will become God. May the fates spare me this terrible lot; I love the Hell which formed my genius. I love the Earth where I have done some good, if it be possible to do any good in this fearful world where beings live but by rapine.

Every writer, big or small, needs to say or write that the genius is always hissed at by his contemporaries. Naturally, this is not true, it happens only occasionally and often by chance. But this need within the writer is enlightening.

Each man's soul is his genius.

Genius, like humanity, rusts for want of use.

An environment of carping and criticism is dangerous to your mental health, whereas those who support and encourage you bring out your true potential and spark your genius.

The fact that Hitler was a political genius unmasks the nature of politics in general as no other fact can.

Genius? Nothing! Sticking to it is the genius! Any other bright-minded fellow can accomplish just as much if he will stick like hell and remember nothing that's any good works by itself. You've got to make the damn thing work!...I failed my way to success.

[Allegory] is a flight by which the human wit attempts at one and the same time to investigate two objects, and consequently is fitted only to the most exalted geniuses.

As a bull market continues, almost anything you buy goes up. It makes you feel that investing in stocks is a very easy and safe and that you're a financial genius.

It could appear that I'm some kind of natural genius, but it's just a million small lessons I've picked up over the years.

We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates.

Common sense is as rare as genius.

Life's fulfillment finds constant obstacles in its path; but those are necessary for the sake of its advance. The stream is saved from the sluggishness of its current by the perpetual opposition of the soil through which it must cut its way. The spirit of fight belongs to the genius of life.

As Meander says, "For our mind is God;" and as Heraclitus, "Man's genius is a deity."

To express himself well, the artist should be hidden. The trouble is that if an artist knows he has genius, he's done for. The only salvation is to work like a labourer, and not have delusions of grandeur.

Talent without genius isn't much, but genius without talent is nothing whatsoever.

Obsessive devotion to creating can spark that which is called 'genius.' Smarter or more gifted? The 'madness' is the insatiable drive to discover, achieve and create. Monomania can develop into 'genius,' as the individual delves deeper into the process leaving normal parameters behind.

I have put my talent into writing, my genius I have saved for living.

Exile as a mode of genius no longer exists; in place of Joyce we have the fragments of work appearing in Index on Censorship.

Your brain has a capacity for learning that is virtually limitless, which makes every human a potential genius.

The beginning of genius is being scared shitless.

A worker without genius is better than a genius who won't work.