Genius Quotes - Page 56

Yes, I think I am a genius, but not a rebel.

We're often afraid to do anything unless we know we can do it extremely well. But we get to Carnegie Hall by practicing. I remember how freeing it was several years ago to read in an interview with Joan Baez that some of Bob Dylan's early songs weren't so wonderful. We have this image of genius springing fully grown out of Zeus' forehead.

The infirmities of genius are often mistaken for its privileges.

Wit lives in the present, but genius survives the future.

It is useless to deny that, unless one has a genius for imparting knowledge, teaching is a drudgery.

Aristoteles quidem ait: 'Omnes ingeniosos melancholicos esse.' Aristotle says that all men of genius are melancholy.

Jim Henson was an absolute genius.

The particulars of life do not matter to the artist; they merely provide him with the opportunity to lay bare his genius.

I was never a prodigy. I was never a child genius.

Sometimes [genius] is just the thing that emerges after twenty years of working at your kitchen table.

My Swaraj is to keep intact the genius of our civilization.

The rishis, who discovered the law of nonviolence in the midst of violence, were greater geniuses than Newton.

In sheer genius Pascal ranks among the very greatest writers who have lived upon this earth. And his genius was not simply artistic; it displayed itself no less in his character and in the quality of his thought.

Steve McQueen is a genius. And I think that word is overused, but I think with Steve it's rightly used. He's a genius.

Genius is talent in which character makes itself heard.

As she walked along she dramatized the night. There was about it a wild, lawless charm that appealed to a certain wild, lawless strain hidden deep in Emily’s nature—the strain of the gypsy and the poet, the genius and the fool.

Blaze Foley was a genius and a beautiful loser.

I really cannot know whether I am or am not the Genius you are pleased to call me, but I am very willing to put up with the mistake, if it be one.

Talent may be in time forgiven, but genius never

Genius disregards the boundaries of propriety. Genius is permitted to shout if shouting is productive.

I think the combination of genius and celebrity, in the case of Bobby Fischer, was a dangerous cocktail.

I do not consider myself a literal genius.

They misspelled 'party.' How evil genius can they be?

Nature alone is the master of true genius.

There is a genius on one side of every trade and a dolt on the other, but which is which does not become clear until much later.