Genius Quotes - Page 52

The purpose of America is to unleash the full talent and genius of every individual.

I guess a certain amount of temperament is expected of Chess geniuses

Make your service systems so strong that everyone looks like a genius.

Buffett’s genius was largely a genius of character—of patience, discipline, and rationality.

No kid is unsmart. Every kid's a genius at something. Our job is to find it. And then encourage it.

As we each express our natural genius, we all elevate our world.

All of the great geniuses of the world were inspired and driven by their desire to enrich the lives of others.

Stanley Kubrick is one of the geniuses of this century.

The combined wisdom and genius of all mankind cannot possibly conceive of an argument against liberty of thought.

It is hard to overstate the debt we owe to the men and women of genius.

Someday a political genius will come along and make the Senate work.

Action, so to speak, is the genius of nature.

Genius is nourished from within and without.

Genius does not excuse evil.

Adrian, you're a genius.

Because there is no greater evil than ignorance and the destruction of genius. Ignorance has been responsible for more death, more bigotry, and more sin than any other force. It is the destroyer of mankind.

It's not my fault so much as my genius.

I'm not saying that I'm the grand genius that came in on a float and made it happen, but they liked my pitch. I was on my way to a camping trip with my daughter when my agent called and said, "This thing came up and it's really wild and crazy, do you want to read it?" And, I said, "Yeah, why don't you just send it to me? But, I'm going on this camping trip, so I probably won't be able to read it until I get back."

John Lennon was a musical genius. All I have to do is think of some of his songs and even the titles make me feel good... and I'm not the only one. His music has crossed cultures and even generations.

There are only one or two geniuses every century.

We always tend to distrust geniuses about genius, as if what they say didn't arouse much empathy in us, or as if we were waiting till some more reliable source of information came along...

The enthusiast always finds the master, the masters, whom he seeks. Always genius seeks genius, desires nothing so much as to be a pupil and to find those who can lend it aid to perfect itself.

We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates. We read the quotation with his eyes, andfind a new and fervent sense; as a passage from one of the poets, well recited, borrows new interest from the rendering. As the journals say, "the italics are ours.

The difference between talent and genius is in the direction of the current: in genius, it is from within outward; in talent from without inward.

There is a genius of a nation, which is not to be found in the numerical citizens, but which characterizes the society.