Genius Quotes - Page 33

Genius declares itself to be a kind of higher masculinity.

When I had to fill in my immigration papers, I gave my age as 19, and my profession as genius; I added that I had nothing to declare except my talent.

I put my talent in my work, I save my Genius for my life.

Genius lasts longer than beauty

Everybody denies I am a genius - but nobody ever called me one!

Fine taste is an aspect of genius itself, and is the faculty of delicate appreciation, which makes the best effects of art our own.

Genius, indeed, melts many ages into one, and thus effects something permanent, yet still with a similarity of office to that of the more ephemeral writer. A work of genius is but the newspaper of a century, or perchance of a hundred centuries.

I make no claim to being a business genius. You can make so much money in this business that it loses its value.

The gifts of genius are far greater than the givers themselves venture to suppose.

I didn't want to be a genius! That ain't cool.

Oh, I'm not a true genius. I'm a near genius. I would say I'm a short genius. I'd rather be tall and normal than a short genius.

I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect, either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him.

Genius is mainly an affair of energy, and poetry is mainly an affair of genius; therefore a nation whose spirit is characterized by energy may well be imminent in poetry - and we have Shakespeare.

When leadership rises to genius it has the power of transforming, of transforming experience into power. And that is what experience is for, to be made into power. The great leader creates as well as directs power.

A genius who does not know that he is a genius is no genius.

Even the people who have it do not definitely know what genius is.

Genius is expansive, irresistible, and irresistibly expansive. If it is in you, no cords can confine it.

The truth is mightier than eloquence, the Spirit greater than genius, faith more than education.

One genius has made many clever artists.

It matters only that you manifest your genius; it doesn’t matter when. It’s never too late or too early.

Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring. When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I'm already better than them anyways.

Genius is another word for magic.

It is not because the touch of genius has roused genius to production, but because the admiration of genius has made talent ambitious, that the harvest is still so abundant.

Truth is the nursing mother of genius.

To be endowed with strength by nature, to be actuated by the powers of the mind, and to have a certain spirit almost divine infused into you.