Genius Quotes - Page 46

Since that day, when people have spoken to me of "genius", I have felt the inside pocket to make sure my wallet's still there.

The genius of a folk melody or story is not the feeling that it's original but quite the opposite - the feeling that it has existed all along.

Such is the vastness of his genius that he can outwit even himself.

Bob Dylan is one of the very few people in the history of popular music who you can unquestionably apply that word [genius] to.

Talent warms-up the given (as they say in cookery) and makes it apparent; genius brings something new. But our time lets talent pass for genius. They want to abolish the genius, deify the genius, and let talent forge ahead.

There is no genius without a mixture of madness.

Stand aside, and try not to catch fire if I shed sparks of genius.

Genius now and then produces a lucky trifle. We still read the Dove of Anacreon, and Sparrow of Catullus; and a writer naturally pleases himself with a performance which owes nothing to the subject.

What makes success is not your genius idea, but the execution and follow-through around it

The Genius Pattern = Thy will be done with my talents with my circles of influence with the opportunities that are laid out in front of me to bless the world.

Geniuses and supergeniuses always make their own rules about sex as on everything else; they do not accept the monkey customs of their lessers.

Which reminded me...I still owed the gods a debt. "You're a genius," I (Percy) told Annabeth.

The most tremendous genius raised Mozart above all masters, in all centuries and in all the arts.

There is no such thing as genius, some children are just less damaged than others.

Out of necessity comes genius.

Talent is hereditary; it may be the common possession of a whole family (eg, the Bach family); genius is not transmitted; it is never diffused, but is strictly individual.

Genius is born-not paid

Writers ... I think ... live on that fine line between insanity and genius.

Geniuses never pay attention.

My God, I'd love to smash into the casket of Dostoyevsky, grab that bony hand and scream at the remains, 'Well done, you god-damn genius.'

Talent shuffles the deck. Genius brings a new deck.

Genius knows where the questions are hidden.

Blessed the geniuses who know / that egomania is not a duty.

You can do something with talent, but nothing with genius.

The critic is beneath the maker, but is his needed friend. The critic is not a base caviler, but the younger brother of genius. Next to invention is the power of interpreting invention; next to beauty the power of appreciating beauty. And of making others appreciate it.