Genius Quotes - Page 3

If we stand for change, we can spark a popular movement with power, influence, magic and genius.

Put your talent into your work, but your genius into your life.

Genius creates, and taste preserves.

Conceit spoils the finest genius.

Having things organized is for small-minded people. Genius controls chaos.

A genius is simply one who has taken full possession of his own mind and directed it toward objectives of his own choosing, without permitting outside influences to discourage or mislead him.

There's a stark difference between the words 'prodigy' and 'genius.' Prodigies can very quickly learn what other people have already figured out; geniuses discover that which no one has ever previously discovered. Prodigies learn; geniuses do.

And I think it is the genius of actors to be able to escape whatever people are expecting of them. Otherwise you become like a factory worker.

I have nothing to declare but my genius, and this four-kilo bag of cocaine.

Conceit spoils the finest genius?and the great charm of all power is modesty.

Originality is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe - you can't take a taxi.

All children are born geniuses; 9,999 out of every 10,000 are swiftly, inadvertently degeniusized by grownups.

Oh! how near are genius and madness! Men imprison them and chain them, or raise statues to them.

Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.

Now I am a genius; before that I was a drudge.

[On Einstein:] You cannot analyze him, otherwise you will misjudge him. Such a genius should be irreproachable in every respect. But no, nature doesn't behave like this. Where she gives extravagantly, she takes away extravagantly.

Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.

The cult of individuality and personality, which promotes painters and poets only to promote itself, is really a business. The greater the 'genius' of the personage, the greater the profit.

The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as 'Soho' poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of a genius and no talent.

Great men grow tired of contentedness.

Genius sees the answer before the question.

"Genius is divine perseverance." Divine patience I believe he originally used, perseverance is better in my opinion. Genius I cannot claim nor even extra brightness but perseverance all can have.

If genius has any common denominator, I would propose breadth of interest and the ability to construct fruitful analogies between fields.

I know of no genius but the genius of hard work.

Dandyism is a species of genius.