Genius Quotes - Page 58

The extraordinary genius of John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie 100 years ago was their recognition that the great wealth they had amassed could be put to public good and used to solve the complex problems for which there were no other sources of capital.

One man's insanity is another man's genius; someday the world will recognize the genius in my insanity.

Let us learn to accept ourselves-accept the truth that we are capable in some directions and limited in others, that genius is rare, that mediocrity is a portion of almost all of us, but that we can contribute from the storehouse of our skills to the enrichment of our common life.

I'm a genius. I'm like Prince.

It made him proud that 29 months in the service had not blunted his genius for ineptitude.

If geniuses can sometimes make mistakes, cannot the rest of us on occasion be geniuses?

Good sense is at the bottom of everything: virtue, genius, wit, talent and taste.

Mir Bahadur Ali is, as we have seen, incapable of evading the most vulgar of art's temptations: that of being a genius.

When a man of genius appears in the world, it is immediately recognized by the fact that all the blockheads join forces against him.

Ah, a German and a genius ! A prodigy, admit him !

For a few minutes of every day, every man becomes a genius. This is the tragedy of life.

The inconsistency of genius is a consistent theme of creativity.

If you go with that spirit, good things will come for you. If you go into it with an assumption that you're a genius and that you're entitled to something, it's a little tougher.

A guy like Scott [Robinson] plays the whole history of music on every instrument you've ever heard of. He's just kind of an unparalleled genius.

He's a tremendous guy. And what's more, he's virtually a genius in the field of management.

From haunted spring and dale Edg'd with poplar pale The parting genius is with sighing sent.

Am I crazy or am I a genius? I don't think I'm either.

I used to say to my auntie, 'You throw my fu*kin' poetry out, and you'll regret it when I'm famous,' and she threw the bast*rd stuff out. I never forgave her for not treating me like a fu*kin' genius or whatever I was when I was a child.

THE GENIUS of the industrial system lies in its organized use of capital and technology. This is made possible, as we have duly seen, by extensively replacing the market with planning.

Genius is a rising stock market.

Genius must be born, it can't be taught.

We love and understand talent; we wish it be within us. The truly gifted, those exceptional few, must wait for the world to catch up.

Nor ought a genius less than his that writ attempt translation.

...genius is no proof against shooting one's own foot.

I am a genius, I am brilliant, I am outstanding and I can achieve whatever I choose to achieve with a ... given by my Creator." That is how I am helping people.