Genius Quotes - Page 66

Genius in one grand particular is like life. We know nothing of either but by their effects.

When a man has displayed talent in some particular path, and left all competitors behind him in it, the world are too apt to give him credit for universality of genius, and to anticipate for him success in all that he undertakes.

A prince or general can best demonstrate his genius by managing a campaign exactly to suit his objectives and his resources, doing neither too much nor too little.

Not nature, but the "genius of mankind," has knotted the hangman's noose with which it can execute itself at any moment.

I love reality shows. The folks who dream up some of these concepts are either geniuses, or totally stoned.

Sappho and Emily Dickinson are the only woman geniuses in poetic history.

Madonna is her own Hollywood studio - a popelike mogul and divine superstar in one. She has a laserlike instinct for publicity, aided by her visual genius for still photography (which none of her legion of imitators has). Unfortunately, her public life has dissolved into a series of staged photo ops.

There are no female geniuses because there are no female Jack-the-Rippers.

When an artist is in the strict sense working, he of course takes into account the existing tastes, interests and capacity of his audience. These no less than the language , the marble, the paint, are part of his aw material.; to be used, tamed, sublimated, not ignored or defied. Haughty indifference to them is not genius, it is laziness and incompetence.

If you can be kind to people, you will be a genius in this world.

I know how to turn it on [computer]. I know where the disc goes: in that little slot but I can't always get it out. And I have three genius-level computer savvy kids who save my ass all the time. I'll tell you what I don't do. I don't watch the news on TV anymore. I get my news online. And like all of you, I Google whoever I want.

I'm wired with a little bit of self-loathing, not that kind of self-loathing that paralyzes me, but it's there. The things I'm most loved for are sometimes the things that annoy me, not my favorite stuff, but those flashes of genius moments, they're called, I rarely see them as a one eureka light bulb idea.

I, for example, am a pompous asshole, but my comics are genius!

Anything imagined can be made real ... given sufficient genius.

Genius is individual, scenius is communal.

And what fun is it being a genius if no one appreciates you?

You can't hang around geniuses forever because they end up taking everything you've got. That's why they're the genius and you're not.

... Geniuses have a little extra something. There's that little something that you know is a little different.

I'm a misunderstood genius.

We don't genuinely need more literary geniuses. One can only read so many books in a lifetime.

Irony can elude the genius among us, sometimes.

Genius in poverty is never feared, because nature, though liberal in her gifts in one instance, is forgetful in another.

Here's Kanye, the great musical genius of his generation in hip hop, but, like, society really can't even deal with him because he's always saying something that people go, 'Oh, I can't believe Kanye said that. I can't believe he did that.'

I've seen high and lows. When things go well that doesn't make me feel like some genius. Nor will I allow the next disappointment to make me feel like a complete failure.

Originality is genius. If you respect and care for it, it will take you on the ride of your life.