Genius Quotes - Page 60

Expect a most agreeable letter; for not being overburdened with subject (having nothing at all to say) I shall have no check to my Genius from beginning to end.

I think that what was genius about the politics of Trump's campaign is that he focused on workers and he focused on jobs. It wasn't about the wealthy entrepreneur with a private jet. It wasn't about a government handout. It was about the folks in the middle.

To genius life never grows commonplace.

To make the common marvelous is the test of genius.

A profound common sense is the best genius for statesmanship.

Attention is the stuff that memory is made of, and memory is accumulated genius.

Those rare individuals society labels geniuses are almost always freaks of nature and are naturally gifted rather than being diligent students who became geniuses because of their education.

The incompatibility of aquacity with the erratic originality of genius.

The history of creation is but a succession of battles between amateurs of genius-inspired heretics- and orthodox professionals.

Genius requires an audience.

We have to set our own agenda, we have to set our own standards, we have to be very strong about what we want, we have to be very strong about our passion and if it's not right for you, you shouldn't do it just because you're advised by so-called geniuses.

Geniuses can be scintillating and geniuses can be somber, but it's that inescapable sorrowful depth that shines through-originality.

One genius is about all a house will hold.

Education, however indispensable in a cultivated age, produces nothing on the side of genius. When education ends, genius often begins.

Solitude is the nurse of enthusiasm, enthusiasm is the true part of genius.

[Addressed to Berlusconi who wanted to impose himself on the editorial style of "Il Giornale"] In the art of entrepeneurship, you are certainly a genius, and I an asshole. But in the art of argument the genius is me, and you the asshole.

Mediocrity borrows, genius steals.

At home I have a Tibetan terrier. I'm still not sure if he's a genius or very thick. It's a fine line.

Taste consists in the power of judging; genius in the power of executing.

That strange premature genius Chatterton has couched in one line the quintessence of what Voltaire has said in many pages: "Reason, a thorn in Revelation's side.

One of the greatest geniuses that ever existed, Shakespeare, undoubtedly wanted taste.

Shakespeare had no tutors but nature and genius. He caught his faults from the bad taste of his contemporaries. In an age still less civilized Shakespeare might have been wilder, but would not have been vulgar.

Common sense is better than genius, and hence its bestowment is more universal.

Boldness is a crucial element of genius.

The Muse gave the Greeks genius and the art of the well-turned phrase.