Genius Quotes - Page 25

I think Stephen Sondheim is a - and I hardly ever use this word - but this is as close as it gets to a genius.

Genius is simply childhood, rediscovered by an act of will.

The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities

Bob has never written a bad song. Bob Dylan is a genius.

Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one's training.

No enemy is indeed so terrible as a man of genius.

The difference between talent and genius is this: while the former usually develops some special branch of our faculties, the latter commands them all. When the former is combined with tact, it is often more than a match for the latter.

Jim Carrey, a comic genius, has a harder time overcoming the public's desire for him to be funny simply because he's so good at it.

The genius must have his freedom and his independence.

The belly is the giver of genius.

Talent works for money and fame; the motive which moves genius to productivity is, on the other hand, less easy to determine.

I have had the great good fortune of working with a true genius of yoga, Karuna Erickson, in developing a new system called Heart Yoga.

Great minds tend toward banality. It is the noblest effort of individualism. But it implies a sort of modesty, which is so rare that it is scarcely found except in the greatest, or in beggars.

We are a people. A people do not throw their geniuses away. If they do, it is our duty as witnesses for the future to collect them again for the sake of our children. If necessary, bone by bone.

I am certainly of opinion that genius can be acquired, or, in the alternative, that it is an almost universal possession.

The gut-feel of the 55-year old trader is more important than the mathematical elegance of the 25-year old genius.

I wouldn't say jamie is an evil genius. I'm not sure he's evil and I'm not sure he's a genius.

There is no such thing as unfortunate genius; if a man or woman is fit for work, God appoints the field.

Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.

Everyone is an artist and a genius, I think. If we don't choose to limit ourselves then we are totally accomplished.

Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.

Talent is the capacity of doing anything that depends on application and industry and it is a voluntary power, while genius is involuntary.

Genius only leaves behind it the monuments of its strength.

When thou seest an eagle, thou seest a portion of genius; lift up thy head!

We measure genius by quality, not by quantity.