Genius Quotes - Page 29

Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy.

A talent for drama is not a talent for writing, but is ability to articulate human relationships.

Andy Warhol is the only genius I've ever known with an IQ of 60.

The life of great geniuses is nothing but a sublime storm.

Genius is rarely able to give any account of its own processes.

A man of genius is not a man who sees more than other men do. On the contrary, it is very often found that he is absentminded andobserves much less than other people.... Why is it that the public have such an exaggerated respect for him--after he is dead? The reason is that the man of genius understands the importance of the few things he sees.

Genius always looks forward, and not only sees what is, but what necessarily will be.

What is Genius?- To aspire to a lofty aim and to will the means to that aim.

I probably have genius. But no talent.

One cannot explain the existence of genius. It is better to enjoy it.

Everybody wants to rule the world.

Since when was genius found respectable?

Genius is the capacity of avoiding hard work.

The inborn geniality of some people amounts to genius.

Talent jogs to conclusions to which Genius takes giant leaps.

A man of genius is inexhaustible only in proportion as he is always renourishing his genius.

Some have the temperament and tastes of genius, without its creative power. They feel acutely, but express tamely.

There's an old saying, "We can mess it up and God cleans it up." I haven't noticed a deity of any sort cleaning up our messes. We're going to have to do it ourselves, particularly since we have created most of these problems just by the genius and creativity that we've expressed and experienced here in this modern period. We've done it, and we've got to straighten it out.

When [Vladimir] Putin goes out and tells everybody - and you talk about a relationship, but he says Donald Trump is going to win and Donald Trump is a genius, and then I have people saying you should disavow. I said, I'm going to disavow that?

I've never met a genius. A genius to me is someone who does well at something he hates. Anybody can do well at something he loves - it's just a question of finding the subject.

Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.

A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius.

Never imitate the eccentricities of genius, but toil after it in its truer flights. They are not so easy to follow, but they lead to higher regions.

I met a genius on the train today about 6 years old, he sat beside me and as the train ran down along the coast we came to the ocean and then he looked at me and said, it’s not pretty.

You're called a genius by people, and then your whole life you become the part.