Genius Quotes - Page 42

The genius of art finds sanctuary among children and madmen to survive.That is who we are.

You can't have genius without patience.

Let us then blend everything: love, religion, genius, with sunshine, perfume, music, and poetry.

Now and then genius carries all before it, but not often. We have to climb slowly, with many slips and falls.

Subconsciously the genius is feared as an image breaker; frequently he does not accept the opinions of the mass, or man's opinion of himself.

The power of applying attention, steady and undissipated, to a single object, is the sure mark of superior genius.

There is no genius where there is not simplicity.

I have never been an innovator, a creative genius.

Professor Hawking is heralded as 'the genius of Britain,' yet he believes in the scientific impossibility that nothing created everything and that life sprang from non-life. Why should anyone believe Mr. Hawking's writings if he cannot provide evidence for his unscientific belief that out of nothing, everything came?

Geniuses are justifiably contemptuous of the opinions of their inferiors.

Early genius, like early cabbage, does not head well.

Genius begins beautiful works, but only labor finishes them.

I believe that we have the first genius of the 21st century, Leo Messi.

I thought it was a stroke of genius that Hans Selye used the word stress, because it's true that if you don't know how to be in wise relationship to life, certain health consequences are bound to happen. If you stand up 12 hours a day on an assembly line, or constantly tell yourself life is not worth living, the body will respond in certain somewhat predictable ways.

Every age has a kind of universal genius, which inclines those that live in it to some particular studies.

Genius is sorrow's child.

The term 'genius' is inapplicable to anyone in this game. A genius is Norman Einstein.

Robert Burns enriched Scottish song with his genius and is mainly responsible for the rich treasure house of song that we enjoy today. He collected folk songs, retained the melodic line, kept what words were usable and rewrote the rest. He didn't claim ownership.

You don't find geniuses in street musicians, but that doesn't mean to say you can't be really good.

We have barely begun to tap into the genius of our humanity.

The art of genius is knowing how far out is too far.

Genius is childhood recaptured.

There is no work of genius which has not been the delight of mankind, no word of genius to which the human heart and soul have not sooner or later responded.

Genius flames and dies, but amiable competence can live forever.

All of a sudden, those few pages of script that he had shown me with the weird images I could visualize all of that in my brain, and I knew that there was this mad little genius at work here and I really wanted to do the film.