Genius Quotes - Page 27

I truly miss the genius of the music of John Lennon, as I'm sure everybody does.

There is one qualification the manager cannot acquire but must bring to the task. It is not genius; it is character.

Aquarius[es] are social butterflies, humanitarians, geniuses: Einstein was one.

Genius learns from nature, its own nature. Talent learns from art.

A person of genius should marry a person of character.

Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet.

I'm equal part genius, equal part buffoon.

Almost all the producers I know and dig, like Quincy Jones or Brian Eno, are really musicians first. I'm a composer, an orchestrator, an arranger and a musician first. I know how to write and rewrite songs, and the genius is really in the rewriting.

Isnt it lovely to know that even the great Sherlock Holmes, the quirky and genius Sherlock Holmes, is vulnerable to love as we all are?

The seventh factor of the basic ingredients of genius, as determined from an extensive analysis of the lives of outstanding men of this nation, is *the habit of going the extra mile.* You will never be a genius unless you make it a habit to do more and better than you are paid to do, every single day of your life.

Don't forget that compared to a grownup person every baby is a genius. Think of the capacity to learn! The freshness, the temperament, the will of a baby a few months old!

Sometimes I feel that I am a natural born genius in a field of human endeavor that hasn't been invented yet

In Mozart and Salieri we see the contrast between the genius which does what it must and the talent which does what it can.

I figured if the plane goes down, I'll go with a great genius and will always have my name connected with his.

I think all writers have a bit of genius in them, and a bit of talent. Genius retreats but talent improves.

Genius points the way, talent takes it.

Common sense is a vastly overrated virtue. I myself prefer the spark of genius.

This is the method of genius, to ripen fruit for the crowd by those rays of whose heat they complain.

One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.

Good taste cannot supply the place of genius in literature, for the best proof of taste, when there is no genius, would be, not to write at all.

There's a fine line between genius and insanity, as we all know.

It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for the rich fertility of American political invention.

…because talent isn't genius, and no amount of energy can make it so. I want to be great, or nothing.

One of the cheapest commodities in the world is unfulfilled genius. All of us want to be known as a unique individual, the one who broke out of the pack. So, you offer yourself up as a sacrifice and what you’re afraid of is losing and being thrown back into the pack. One question taunts you. Do you want to have, or do you want to be?

Reason is mechanical, wit chemical, and genius organic spirit.