Genius Quotes - Page 34

Some of you may be perfectly happy with mediocrity. Some of you will get nothing but heartbreak. Some of you will be heralded as geniuses and become huge. Of course, all of you think that one describes you...hence the delusion necessary to push on.

During this earlier period of his activity Voltaire seems to have been trying - half unconsciously, perhaps - to discover and to express the fundamental quality of his genius.

To understand Mozart's contradictory qualities would indeed be to understand genius.

The egalitarian doctrine is manifestly contrary to all the facts established by biology and by history. Only fanatical partisans of this theory can contend that what distinguishes the genius from the dullard is entirely the effect of postnatal influences.

The first thing a genius needs is to breath free air.

Despair and Genius are too oft connected

Charlie Chaplin's genius was in comedy. He has no sense of humor, particularly about himself.

Boldness in itself is genius.

I'm supposed to be this musical genius and everything, but I can't really work the car seat that well.

We can all be geniuses because one definition of genius is the infinite capacity for taking pains.

Every complete man has his genius. True virtue is genius.

The iPod is genius. I have 300.

I'm a creative genius and there's no other way to word it.

Poverty is the step-mother of genius.

Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.

Better beware of notions like genius and inspiration; they are a sort of magic wand and should be used sparingly by anybody who wants to see things clearly.

When a real genius appeares in this world, you'll know him by the fact that all the fools have allied against him.

Music looks very formidable to people outside of it and it looks like it's this realm of spooky genius.

When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influences and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and his dying a cold horror.

There are no laws by which we can write Iliads.

Governmental aid is a drawback rather than an assistance, as, although it may facilitate in the routine of artistic production, it is an impediment to the development of true artistic genius.

I think without a doubt, that what is called "financial genius" is merely a rising market.

I say that the genius of the marketing strategy that we've had in every company that I've ever been in, is that if you ask your customers what they want and you give it to them, you shouldn't be shocked if they love it.

I remember one afternoon when we were out on a golf course somewhere, and Lauren Bacall, James Garner, and Jack Lemmon were sitting there in deck chairs when I went off to do another scene. And I said something like, "Hey, where have you guys been?" And they said, "Oh, we were down at the clubhouse. We saw your scene!" And Jack Lemmon looked at James Garner, and James Garner looked back at me, and then they both looked back at me and said in unison, "You bet your ass it is!" So I've been up there with the greats. I've had my fleeting moments with theatrical genius.

And yes, again, that was it exactly. A retyper and not a writer. A prodigy and not a genius.