Genius Quotes - Page 39

Genius--the free and harmonious play of all the faculties of a human being.

Genius is nothing more nor less than doing well what anyone can do badly.

Genius - to know without having learned; to draw just conclusions from unknown premises; to discern the soul of things.

My own experience is that a certain kind of genius among students is best brought out in bed.

It was a vicious cycle, though. The more gratification we found in our own geniuses, the more isolated we grew.

Consult the genius of the place, that paints as you plant, and as you work.

The genius of our institutions is democratic - baseball is a democratic game.

I'm not a genius. I'm just passionately curious.

The step between genius and insanity is very short.

Some Italians are geniuses, but you have to find a balance.

The demon of intemperance ever seems to have delighted in sucking the blood of genius and of generosity.

Towering genius disdains a beaten path ... It scorns to tread in the footsteps of any predecessor, however illustrious. It thirsts for distinction.

Genius is clairvoyant.

Genius is always more suggestive than expressive.

A few weeks later, I’m in a fluorescent-lit classroom in Chelsea awaiting the start of the official Mensa test. I’m sitting next to a guy who’s doing a series of elaborate neck stretches, like we’re about to engage in a vigorous rugby match. He’s neatly laid out four types of gum on his Formica desk: Juicy Fruit, Wrigley Spearmint, Big Red, and Eclipse. I hate this guy. I hope to God he’s not a genius.

In politics, as in fishing, you don't have to be a genius. You just have to be smarter than the fish.

A lot of chefs are traditional and do it very well. But the ones who are the most successful are the ones who change things. That is why someone like Heston Blumenthal is a genius.

Preparation is - if not the key to genius - then at least the key to sounding like a genius.

The genius of America is production; and a large percentage of our productive enterprises are headed by men who have come up from the worker's bench.

Don't be a genius, my son, it isn't good for anybody.

Geniuses are commonly believed to excel other men in their power of sustained attention . . . But it is their genius making them attentive, not their attention making geniuses of them.

It is always well to get near to men of genius.

God is the poetic genius in each of us.

Having scored 298 and still hitting a six is something unimaginable and you need to be a genius for that.

The deserving are not always blest. That peculiar attribute known as personality is as potent a factor as genius.