Genius Quotes - Page 35

That's the great thing about being in the third grade. If you've got one polysyllabic adjective, everyone thinks you're a genius.

The future will erase everything--there's no level of fame or genius that allows you to transcend oblivion. The infinite future makes that kind of mattering impossible.

Who in the same given time can produce more than others has vigor; who can produce more and better, has talents; who can produce what none else can, has genius.

The proportion of genius to the vulgar is like one to a million.

Adlai Stevenson has a genius for saying the right thing, at the right time, to the wrong people.

I'm not a girl. I'm a genius.

The term "genius" gets used far too loosely in rock & roll.

Todd Rundgren is a genius, and I don't use that word a lot.

A sense of timing is the mark of a genius.

Women, in general, are not attracted to art at all, nor knowledge, and not at all to genius.

When we are calling forth the depth and genius of the other, then we grow.

Wit is the god of moments, but Genius is the god of ages.

Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Only engage, and then the mind grows heated. Begin, and then the work will be completed.

An average idea enthusiastically embraced will go farther than a genius idea no one gets.

Genius is a talent only for living, those who possess it have little gift for dying.

There seems almost a general wish of descrying the capacity and undervaluing the labour of the novelist, and of slighting the performances which have only genius, wit, and taste to recommend them.

It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place, as it does for the rest of us.

Taste is the next gift to genius.

Olivier was another case of a genius, who couldn't understand why anybody would have any trouble doing this, because for him it came so easily.

Geniuses always think it's easier than we make it out to be.

There is only one proved method of assisting the advancement of pure science-that of picking men of genius, backing them heavily, and leaving them to direct themselves.

Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature.

There are plenty of clever young writers. But there is too much genius, not enough talent.

Genius is inconsiderate, self-relying, and, like unconscious beauty, without any intention to please.

The golden hour of invention must terminate like other hours, and when the man of genius returns to the cares, the duties, the vexations, and the amusements of life, his companions behold him as one of themselves - the creature of habits and infirmities.