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My job is to pay attention to my children‘s genius and allow those leanings to lead them to their future.
Every true genius is bound to be naive.
It’s a total big difference between a person that got lyrics and a person that can make hit singles. I’m a person that can make some hit singles. I’m not in no booth trying to be a lyrical genius. I’m preparing to make me some singles, and as I develop as a man, then they’ll respect my emcee skills.
What’s genius about ‘Gravity‘ is that you are close upon the actors, but 3D works best when you have foreground, middle ground and background.
If a professional musician in a symphony orchestra is playing Beethoven. But this particular orchestra have played this particular chestnut so many times, they can play it in their sleep. Does the genius remain present in the music or not?
It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work.
When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
Quentin Tarantino is a genius. I want to do every single film with him.
To copy Nature? A boy with a camera can do that. To get the spirit of Nature? A woodman or a shepherd can follow the trail of the whistling wind to hoarded sunshine in distant wolds. But to interpret Nature and inform it with a human personality that rises above it, invokes the divine in it, is the work of genius.
One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.
Governmental aid is a drawback rather than an assistance, as, although it may facilitate in the routine of artistic production, it is an impediment to the development of true artistic genius.
It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one’s own advantage and to that of one’s craft that a large part of genius consists.
Susceptibility to the highest forces is the highest genius.
I imagine if you’re one of those genius people working on AI, the desire to find out what’s possible is presumably the driving factor, but I hope there are just as many people who are thinking about what we actually want. Just because something’s possible it doesn’t mean it’s going to be good to us.
The London Olympic Opening Ceremony was excellent. The mixture of old and new, of classic and contemporary was a beautiful reflection of Great Britain. Danny Boyle is a genius.
The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in his ideas.
I think it gets overused and tossed around in ways that aren’t true. Every impressive achievement is not genius.
A man possesses talent; genius possesses the man.
Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.
The launch of iPhone is very possibly bigger than the launch of the first Apple II or the first Mac. Steve Jobs’s genius is his ability to use technology to create products that define fundamental cultural shifts.
The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make the rest of us wonder at the possibility that we might be missing something.
The grim reality is that most start-ups fail. Most new products are not successful. Yet the story of perseverance, creative genius, and hard work persists.
I don’t want to compare myself to him – I don’t want people to see me as this great genius – but when I see Charlie Chaplin‘s movies there is a combination of drama, naivety and social meaning that I can see in myself, at a different level.
I didn’t want to be a genius! That ain’t cool.
Pete Docter’s a genius isn’t he?
Steve Jobs is considered an amazing genius and made billions of dollars. Sure, we overlook that he didn’t pay his share of taxes and didn’t believe in charity. But other than these occasional rumblings of dissent, he is pretty much held in high esteem.
Jesse Eisenberg, this little nebbishy guy, as Lex Luthor? For me, that’s a genius move.
The genius of our institutions is democratic – baseball is a democratic game.
Honestly, I feel like I spent the last 10 years just trying to work, just get my hands on the best material I could. I’d like to say that it was quite calculated and genius, my ability to take one step forward and two steps back.
Genius is not perfected, it is deepened. It does not so much interpret the world as fertilize itself with it.
You know, it doesn’t take a genius in the private sector to know that you can save literally hundreds of billions of dollars in federal spending if you can make it more responsive. That’s the main job.
I think you’re all mad. But that’s part and parcel of being an artistic genius, isn’t it?
I think that we see Steve Jobs as the genius speaker in the mock black turtleneck with the round glasses, sort of beautifully delivering his new product, and I think that for people to understand that he started in a garage.
I’m just drawn to the odd guy, the man who is full of it, the guy who has limited talent but is pretending he’s a genius.
People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel.
If you are delusional, sometimes the reality catches up with your delusion, and then all of a sudden you are a genius.
Even though Da Vinci was a genius, it’s important to remember he was just a man.
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’s a band in the U.K. called Elbow. They’re not that big in the U.S., but I think they’re genius.
Our society is very, very good at developing certain types of skills and certain types of genius. We are fantastically good at identifying and developing athletic skills – better than we are, really, at almost anything else. We are quite good at developing and rewarding inventiveness.
There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.
I was taught Shakespeare brilliantly by an eccentric genius at Harrow named Jeremy Lemmon who made me want to be a writer.
First, make yourself a reputation for being a creative genius. Second, surround yourself with partners who are better than you are. Third, leave them to go get on with it.
As a little girl, I didn’t dream of being a ballet dancer; I dreamt of being a movie star like Ginger Rogers and dancing with Fred Astaire. I used to watch the Sunday double-bills on TV and Iong to be part of what seemed a perfect Disneyland world. Astaire was a genius.
Kendrick is phenomenal. I’ve never tried and practiced a song that was as hard as when I practiced Kendrick’s verse on ‘Control.’ He’s a genius. I think that people do recognize it.
What does genius mean? God has put us here specifically… every person has a job or journey to do. It’s just a matter of finding what we’re here to fulfill or execute. That’s genius to me.
In real estate, you make 10% of your money because you’re a genius and 90% because you catch a great wave.
Genius worship is the inevitable sign of an uncreative age.
Oh, I think Janie Bryant is a genius. I mean, I think she changed menswear almost single-handedly with what she did on ‘Mad Men.’
The people who live lives that are the most dangerous don’t usually come in twirling a mustache rubbing their hands menacingly saying ‘I’m an evil genius.’ They’re people who are charismatic, charming and appealing, who speak to some part of us that makes us want to follow them, that makes us attracted to them.
There were some great clinicians in the 20th century – great men. Freud was a genius; Jung was a genius, Carl Rogers was a genius – there’s a half-dozen psychologists of the 1950s and humanists of the 1960s.
The difference between being able to understand something and inventing it in the first place… is called genius.
If you go back and look, a completely underrated film is ‘Quest for Fire.’ That was one of the most genius, simplistic but incredibly sophisticated notion of what it was. The evolution of that was just fantastic.
Donna Tartt is a genius.
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
Yachty is a genius.
Is it not in the most absolute simplicity that real genius plies its pinions the most wonderfully?
I’d love to work with David Lynch. I’m such a big fan. He’s a genius.
Taste is the fundamental quality which sums up all the other qualities. It is the nec plus ultra of the intelligence. Through this alone is genius the supreme health and balance of all the faculties.
Donna Summer was such a genius.
There’s a fine line between what would characterize you as a troglodyte and what would characterize you as a brilliant, avant-garde, forward-thinking genius. There’s some middle ground.
I think Stephen Sondheim is a – and I hardly ever use this word – but this is as close as it gets to a genius.
One of my top 10 favorite movies of all time was ‘South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut.’ ‘Team America’ is a work of genius to me.
When you work in the United States Senate, and you are around people of all different ideas and beliefs, you realize that what our Founding Fathers did that was so genius, is that they made the Senate the place where compromises are supposed to happen because of the makeup of the Senate.
Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.
I’m not going to say that I’m some musical genius, but I’ve always loved music.
Creativity runs across many categories in life, from the arts-and-crafts project a mum or dad does with their kids, to the bestselling author’s manuscript, to the designs of the hairdresser, to the creations of the computer programming genius.
Jared Kushner is Ivanka Trump husband. Jared was instrumental in being kind of an overlay in kind of bringing Trump’s genius down to the all the different parts of leadership.
I know it is very hard to rise above the influences of party prejudice. Often, it almost drowns the sentiment of patriotism. Party rancor and party hatred are the last serpents which the genius of patriotism can crush.
My encouragement: delete the energy vampires from your life, clean out all complexity, build a team around you that frees you to fly, remove anything toxic, and cherish simplicity. Because that’s where genius lives.
I love David Fincher and I think he’s a genius.
I’ve always known I was a genius. But I never thought I was a star.
John Waters is a genius.
Well, you cannot think of cinema now, and you cannot think of cinema in the UK and not place Chaplin in the most extraordinary elevated context, if there can be such a thing, in that he was a genius, he was unique.
There’s a line between being egotistical and being genius or great.
It is the union of independence and dependence of these branches – legislative, executive and judicial – and of the governmental functions possessed by each of them, that constitutes the marvellous genius of this unrivalled document.
Men of genius sometimes accomplish most when they work the least, for they are thinking out inventions and forming in their minds the perfect idea that they subsequently express with their hands.
‘Sweet Genius’ viewers will be on the edge of their seats as we continue to push the limits with inspirations and ingredients, while showcasing the talents of some of the best pastry chefs around. As a result, the desserts that the chefs create are truly outrageous.
Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.
Mark Zuckerberg is a genius. Not in the Asperger’s, autistic way depicted in the very fictional movie ‘The Social’ Network, the cognitive genius of exceptional ability. That’s a modern definition that reduces the original meaning.
As actors, we deal with rejection so much more than any other business. So I don’t care how much of a genius you are, if you don’t have the propensity to be able to get back up every time you get knocked down, then you’re not going to survive.
It should be quite clear that it is possible for unpleasant people who are small in various ways other than in their artistic genius to produce great art. Art and morality have no necessary connection.
A photographic memory, to me, is kind of like brainiac, genius type. I don’t think I have that.
While Napoleon believed his fortunes to be governed by destiny, his real genius lay in self-control and martial daring coupled with an indomitable will to power.
Time, place, and action may with pains be wrought, but genius must be born; and never can be taught.
I think the first ‘Hellraiser’ is a work of genius.
To understand Europe, you have to be a genius – or French.
There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what he himself is who does not know his fellow men, especially the most prominent one of the community, the master’s master, the genius of the age.
I’m the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don’t have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhere.
I’m a musical genius.
One thing I’ve been doing at Baidu is running a workshop on the strategy of innovation. The idea is that innovation is not these random unpredictable acts of genius but that, instead, one can be very systematic in creating things that have never been created before.
The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.
Like many businessmen of genius he learned that free competition was wasteful, monopoly efficient. And so he simply set about achieving that efficient monopoly.
The Wonderstar collection is a fantastic fusion of Hollywood glamour and Wonderbra’s technical genius.
I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child.
Genius is sorrow‘s child.
Unless one is a genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible.
I’m not a genius. I need other people to get the perfect information. When we have this, we will decide to sign or sell a player.
What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality?
What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again, from zero.
Picasso, Michelangelo, possibly, might be verging on genius, but I don’t think a painter like Rembrandt is a genius.
The true genius of a great manager is his or her ability to individualize. A great manager is one who understands how to trip each person’s trigger.
It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.
UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity.
Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius.
The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius.
Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.
Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.
I think the Reagan people are superb marketers. Their whole approach to polling, to television, to the symbolism and the rest approaches genius.
I actually think that I’m a genius; not to toot my own horn or anything, but I think I’m a musical genius.
Many people think I am an idiot. I think I am a genius.
The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.
Jim Henson was an absolute genius.
Genius does what it must, and talent does what it can.
I became a genius on ‘Ed,’ though I’m not sure it was very convincing.
David Chase is a genius.
There’s the same percentage of genius happening in both genders, but there’s less women writing scripts and out there looking for the job.
The writer Richard Curtis is a genius.
I want people to think I’m a creative genius.
There are so many remarkable playwrights working right now, that I see everything I can. Annie Baker is a genius, I’ll see anything she writes. The same for Lynn Nottage, Cynthia Hopkins, and Lisa D’Amour. Anything they’ve got going on, I’ll go see.
This island is made mainly of coal and surrounded by fish. Only an organizing genius could produce a shortage of coal and fish at the same time.
Andy Warhol is the only genius I’ve ever known with an I.Q. of 60.
I’m a devotee of Stephen Sondheim. I think he’s a genius.
Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.
People either think I’m this totally savage, idiot-savant genius guy who’s lucked out or they think I’m a super-manipulative crafty businessman, this kind of MBA guy who’s spotted a gap in the market and knows how to create a product for it. It’s flattering, but I’ve not got that much of a gameplan.
I’m a huge fan of R. Kelly‘s. He’s a musical genius and probably the most prolific artist of the generation before mine.
You see the genius that Whitney Houston has as an interpreter of material, and you realize why genius can be applied to only a few interpretive performers. She finds meaning and depth and soulfulness in a song that often the writer and composer never really knew was there.
I can’t say I’m not grateful to have journalists writing about me as a genius. But I know it’s not true. I’m not confused. I understand that success comes through a lot of failure and a lot of very embarrassing failure. People want to create the next Facebook, but they are too afraid to create the next Facemash.
Isco is a genius. He is a natural and a huge talent.
Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.
Genius is never understood in its own time.
Taste is the common sense of genius.
It is quite possible for the vulgar to be funny, but to succeed, it must rise to a certain genius.
I was more independent than any farmer in Concord, for I was not anchored to a house or farm, but could follow the bent of my genius, which is a very crooked one, every moment.
Genius is of no country.
Genius… is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
The most common thing over the years is, ‘What’s it like to work with David Lynch?’ That’s absolutely the fascination, whether it’s people that are in the industry or it’s just diehard fans. Because he’s our modern-day master. We’re lucky enough to be alive at the time that an absolute master and genius is working.
I think ‘Pan’s Labyrinth‘ is genius.
I think Mike Nichols is brilliant, but I think Jerry Robbins was a genius.
Shakespeare was very political, but he was also a fabulous entertainer. That’s where his genius comes in as a playwright.
There is no genius in life like the genius of energy and industry.
I am not worthy to be on a Mariah Carey record. She’s a true artist, so I just step back and watch the genius occur.
Genius is eternal patience.
I have nothing to declare except my genius.
You go to college not only for the latest knowledge but also to meet people from different backgrounds. That’s the genius of the American higher-education system compared with the Europeans‘. We don’t simply skim the elite.
Every decade of my life I attempted to write a novel. But I had nothing to say. I was far too self-absorbed, and now I realize I was writing for others, so that they’d applaud me, see my genius, tell me how wonderful I am, or be jealous of my success.
People bought bitcoin because they thought it would be worth more tomorrow. And a lot of people got lucky. But we’re not seeing real people use bitcoin. And we don’t know what problem it solves. Now, blockchain, I think, is a genius advancement in technology.
The true genius shudders at incompleteness – and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.
Genius is the talent of a person who is dead.
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.
The genius of the Spanish people is exquisitely subtle, without being at all acute; hence there is so much humour and so little wit in their literature.
I buy everything India Arie, just because she’s such a positive person, and I just love her music. Her music’s so soulful… I think Kanye West is a genius musically.
People call me a genius. I don’t know much about geniuses. But I do believe that what I achieved was not just because of the ability that I was born with but also because I worked hard.
I think David Hewlett is a comedic genius. I think he’s great.
There is the myth that writing books for children is easier than writing books for grownups, whereas we know that truly great books for children are works of genius, whether it’s ‘Alice in Wonderland‘ or the ‘Gruffalo’ or ‘Northern Lights.’ When it’s a great book, it’s a great book, whether it’s for children or not.
Amy Poehler, Amy Sedaris – they’re both genius.
I think there are very few people that I would give the title of genius to, really, but Beethoven unquestionably is one of them.
It is high time we found out about this man Cummings. Let us give him every opportunity to show us at once whether he is a genius, a charlatan, or a congenital defective – and get him off our minds.
But I don’t think I have any particular talent for prediction, because when you have three or four elements in hand, you don’t have to be a genius to reach certain conclusions.
Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.
Adlai Stevenson has a genius for saying the right thing, at the right time, to the wrong people.
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex… It takes a touch of genius – and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.
One of my greatest inspirations for stand-up was Jonathan Winters. He was a genius. One thing about him, and also Lenny Bruce, is that they were in the tradition of the one-man show. That’s why Richard Pryor was so great, and George Carlin, too. They prowled the stage, they used voices, they were really talents.
Voltaire made up his mind to destroy the superstition of his time. He fought with every weapon that genius could devise or use. He was the greatest of all caricaturists, and he used this wonderful gift without mercy.
Tracey Cunningham is my colorist, and she is genius! We match my color from when I was a kid.
The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
Isn’t it lovely to know that even the great Sherlock Holmes, the quirky and genius Sherlock Holmes, is vulnerable to love as we all are?
One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.
Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
The genius of the American Founders was to create an intricate system of balanced powers both within the state and between state and society – a system that has fostered unprecedented political, social, and intellectual freedom.
Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.
T Bone is genius. The way they’ve recorded my voice and the instrumentation to these songs is really quite extraordinary.
Jerome Robbins, to me, is the genius of a lifetime.
It’s very important that when you have a designer like Marc Jacobs, who is a genius, you give him complete freedom.
Ronald Isley is a musical genius.
When you’re young you believe it when people tell you how good you are. And that’s the danger, you inhale. Everyone will tell you you’re a genius, which you are not, and if you understand that, you win.
You don’t disrupt genius at work.
Fullscreen is doing some really interesting work. They are taking these YouTube stars and people who have made entire careers out of social media and bringing them into an even bigger limelight on a new entrepreneur platform – and that’s fascinating! That’s genius to me.
I’m no genius, sure, but I’m no dum-dum.
The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people.
President Obama‘s view of a free economy is to send your money to his friends. My vision for a free enterprise economy is to return entrepreneurship and genius and creativity to the American people!
There is great work to be done, and the women will lead us. So I say, Astonish us with your genius. Inspire us with your creation. Work with one another. Endure the tribulations.
Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
I’m really into ‘Veep.’ I think that the showrunner Armando Iannucci is a genius.
To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent. To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius.
My dad is very down to earth, and I view him as a creative genius, and I am very proud of that.
Genius is childhood recalled at will.
Todd Rundgren is a genius, and I don’t use that word a lot.
I think Berry Gordy is a genius, I really do, and it’s not a word I throw around lightly. But with all that comes the idiosyncratic behavior of a self-made, talented, creative person, and that’s not easy to come up against.
Everyone around me says, You’re a genius! You’re great! That’s your voice! But I’m not sure if they’re right.
Every complete man has his genius. True virtue is genius.
Queen Victoria was a woman of peerless common sense; her common sense, which is a rare gift at any time, amounted to genius. She had been brought up by her mother with the utmost simplicity, and she retained it to the end, and conducted her public and private life alike by that infallible guide.
Industry is a better horse to ride than genius.
I think that my interpretation of Italian was a lot more southern than what my husband cooks. You know, I grew up in Queens and in Brooklyn, and we – really, it’s more southern. It’s Naples and Sicily. It’s heavier. It’s over-spiced. And like most Americans, I thought spaghetti and meatballs was genius.
Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.
Robert Burns enriched Scottish song with his genius and is mainly responsible for the rich treasure house of song that we enjoy today. He collected folk songs, retained the melodic line, kept what words were usable and rewrote the rest. He didn’t claim ownership.
Rainer Maria Rilke was admittedly not a Dockers tagger, but a sort of European equivalent: a German poet – in many respects, a charlatan masquerading as a genius who turned out to be a genius.
My favorite types of movies definitely aren’t thrillers, but at the same time you can’t deny the genius of Hitchcock‘s films.
To be complex does not mean to be fragmented. This is the paradox and the genius of our Canadian civilization.
People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long; even if it is, the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one, and the great charm of all power is modesty.
There are so many songs in me that haven’t been born yet. So I can’t call myself a genius, but I never turn away a compliment, and I feel like I’m on my way to that mountain.
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
I think ‘genius’ is an overused word.
I don’t think I’m a genius. Not yet.
I also think if you’re an actor and you can improvise, when you go on an audition and you can improvise you’re just a genius. If you can, you know, take a Tide commercial and you can just say one funny line that’s not in the commercial they think you’re a genius.
The free sharing and teaching of open source is incompatible with the notion of the solitary genius.
God gives talent. Work transforms talent into genius.
The guy that I worked on ‘Thriller ‘ was a genius and he was 20 years old, but it was like working with a gifted 10-year-old. The guy who I worked on with ‘Black Or White‘ was crazy. Michael had gone mad.
While the world may feel entitled and have the power to pronounce an individual crazy, are there times when the innocent genius, the insightful individual or just the old grandmother may reasonably declare the world to be mad? Probably, but what hope or happiness would such an individual have?
It’s a weird thing where, especially in jazz, you have to totally mention cutting sessions and people one-upping each other and people being super, super tough on each other. And out of it emerge these genius musicians.
However old-fashioned and right-wing this may sound, the American genius for language lies in understatement, in saying things simply, pointedly and quickly, and in making new and clean and swift what otherwise might be ponderous, round and slow.
Young men and young women, full of courage, originality, and genius, are everywhere to be met with.
Jesus of Nazareth was a poet, no less than a prophet, of pre-eminent genius.
I don’t want anyone to fail, so if you can make money off music even though you can’t sing or dance, that’s genius.
My own experience is that a certain kind of genius among students is best brought out in bed.
Berlusconi is a genius in communication. Otherwise, he would never have become so rich.
A host is like a general: calamities often reveal his genius.
I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him.
Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
I don’t think that genius goes hand in hand with being socially inept or being a sociopath or being a misanthrope, but I do think that it is a mind that can think so differently – so beyond how one is supposed to think.
I don’t know what ‘genius’ even means. It’s just a matter of keeping your eye on the ball.
When ‘Watchmen‘ was published in 1986, the vast majority of comics readers deemed it a watershed in comics history. The 12-part serial comic book was widely acclaimed as a genius subversion of the superhero genre, and it did much to popularize comics to adults.
Every one of you is a super genius if you just focus your common sense.
She was a genius, my mother.
The men who miss success have two general alibis: ‘I’m not a genius’ is one; the other, ‘There aren’t the opportunities today there used to be.’ Neither excuse holds. The first is beside the point; the second is altogether wrong.
It will work. I am a marketing genius.
I think Joss Whedon is a genius.
Could we teach taste or genius by rules, they would be no longer taste and genius.
It’s a lucky child that knows that they’re a genius, unaimed and all that.
Common sense is genius in homespun.
I truly miss the genius of the music of John Lennon, as I’m sure everybody does.
Genius is a word too often tossed around in musical circles.
What most readers do not realize is that it takes a particular genius to write funny, to satirize.
Unless you are a genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible.
There are very few men of genius in advertising agencies. But we need all we can find. Almost without exception they are disagreeable. Don’t destroy them. They lay golden eggs.
No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.
Creative genius is a divinely bestowed gift which is the coronation of the few.
When you’re in a play, 50 percent is the genius of the actor, 50 percent is the genius of the author. When a mime is not perfect, you see nothing.
What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road empirically, following one’s nose, taking shortcuts.
Genius, when young, is divine.
Genius is one of the many forms of insanity.
David Fincher is a genius.
I like the idea of taking a true classic written by a true genius and destroying it essentially! I like the idea of bringing it down to earth a bit – and even a bit lower than that.
Pain is definitely a genius in his own right. ‘Thr33 Ringz’ is definitely one of my top 10 albums. It’s one of those albums you listen to front-to-back.
My wife determined that my genius should prevail, and that my final success as an ornithologist should be triumphant.
There are not many people that I respect more than rappers. I’m a huge fan of hip hop. It’s incredible, one of the most influential things to me. It takes real genius to be able to do well. It’s a very deep art form.
I think ‘Game Of Thrones‘ has been genius, and I really don’t want it to end. Every episode is huge. It’s totally immense, and the actors are all fantastic in it. It has totally drawn me in.
Be known as a great resource. Are you an Excel genius? An expert on local restaurants? Fabulous at proofreading? Go beyond your job description by being an open resource for others in the company who could benefit from your talents. I believe that paying it forward will serve you well one way or another in the future.
Music looks very formidable to people outside of it and it looks like it’s this realm of spooky genius.
The genius of our country is improvisation, and jazz reflects that. It’s our great contribution to the arts.
Sometimes miraculous films come into being, made by people you’ve never heard of, starring unknown faces, blindsiding you with creative genius.
Genius, like humanity, rusts for want of use.
The most genius thing about the way I create is to create with other geniuses.
Neatness begets order; but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship.
The popular mythology of creative genius depends on beloved stereotypes of the artist in youth and old age: the misunderstood upstart who forces us to see the world afresh; and the revered sage who shows us depths of insight attainable only through a lifetime of hard-won experience.
I probably have genius. But no talent.
A lot of writers dream of feature films, but television – by way of TNT, CBS, Lifetime, and Hallmark Hall of Fame – has always called my name. And after seeing ‘True Detective,’ can there be any doubt that the storytelling on TV is as genius as it gets?
Working off one genius sketch is not the way great architecture should be made.
When you deal with Alan Ball, you’re dealing with a person who is a genius in terms of how art imitates life.
In school, I was a genius of the year preceding the year I was in, every year.
People think that I’m some kind of genius who’s got these statements to say, and… I’m not really.
How are men to be secured in any rights without instruction; how to be secured in the equal exercise of those rights without equality of instruction? By instruction understand me to mean knowledge – just knowledge; not talent, not genius, not inventive mental powers.
By and large, talent is in such short supply that mediocrity can be taken for brilliance rather more than genius can go undiscovered.
Almost no one wants to admit the genius of Jeff Bezos and Amazon. Apparently, many have failed to see that Amazon has become the world’s biggest retail company.
I would sing around the house, and I would always play on things just because instruments were always there, but I didn’t show any genius as a child. I wasn’t a prodigy or anything like that.
You have to be a little bit cautious when the market gets quite strong because there’s a tendency to anoint a genius artist every other day. That would be a word of advice for the collectors out there.
I’m pretty handy in the kitchen. But my wife’s the real genius.
I talked a bunch of crap for years and then went out and worked hard. That’s the extent of it. There’s no magical genius to it, as much as I’d like to think there is. I’m just a guy who works hard – and I hope guys are challenged by that.
Dandyism is a variety of genius.
The ordinary man casts a shadow in a way we do not quite understand. The man of genius casts light.
Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.
George Saunders is a complete genius.
I’m doing what all modern artists do now, which is nothing – just sit around and dream about things. I’ll do what they call ‘the stroke of genius.’
Talent does whatever it wants to do. Genius does only what it can.
Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.
What seems like a crazy idea today eventually grows. It’s a ‘with hindsight‘ thing. One day, someone will turn around and say, ‘That was genius.’
If I were a liberal Democrat, people would say I’m the super genius of all time. The super genius of all time. If you’re a conservative Republican, you’ve got to fight for your life. It’s really an amazing thing.
I think that there are all these amazing figures in our history – the Bowies, the Tina Turners, the Chers, the people who are, in many ways, genderless or represent ‘the other’ – and I want pop music, and other queer artists – Kehlani, Perfume Genius – these people are bringing queer narratives into people’s minds.
I met David Bowie when I was 14, and he became a hero to me – because he was an artist, and because he was a genius who had the time to be kind. I’d never met such an extraordinary artist before, and I haven’t since – the world will be a greyer place without him.
Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature.
Two actors who have different motivations and skill sets can work together and be magic. Charles Grodin and Robert DeNiro technically couldn’t work more differently, and yet they made ‘Midnight Run,’ which is a genius comedy.
The jury is still out on whether I’m a genius or not.
There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.
Ricky Gervais is a genius.
Every true genius is bound to be naive.
The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.
There is in the DNA of the Italians a bit of madness, which in the overwhelming majority of cases is positive. It is genius. It is talent. It’s the masterpieces of art. It’s the food, fashion, everything that makes Italy great in the world.
Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
Mike is a genius guitar player and keyboard player. I realized that, with this group, I just joined Mike Keneally’s band!
When you hear the party that glorified Occupy Wall Street blast success; when you hear them minimize the genius of the men and women who make jobs out of nothing, is that what you teach your children about work?
I am not a genius. But I am nerdy.
The genius of impeachment lay in the fact that it could punish the man without punishing the office.
To be called a genius at 17 or 18 years old can sometimes cause arrested development.
Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius.
I’m a genius. I’m like Prince.
Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.
I think I always have Woody Allen in mind whenever I’m creating anything. He’s such a genius, and I think ‘Annie Hall’ is one of the greatest movies ever written.
If you’re a man and you ask questions, you’re a genius; if you’re a woman, you’re difficult.
Miyazaki is a genius. He is the legend.
The genius of ‘Game of Thrones’ is that in this rich imagining of a world redolent of the medieval, the rules of a Middle Ages morality play have been so thoroughly discarded.
Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into beauty like a reed.
Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
Dali is like a man who hesitates between talent and genius, or, as one might once have said, between vice and virtue.
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.
Buddy Rich is one of a kind; he’s a genius, and that’s all there is to it.
I mean, you’re gonna be left behind if you don’t appreciate the genius that is Meredith Vieira.
To think, and to feel, constitute the two grand divisions of men of genius – the men of reasoning and the men of imagination.
The genius of the American system is that through freedom we have created extraordinary results from plain old ordinary people.
Genius is a grace. The true man of genius acts by movement or by impulsion.
There’s a gap somehow between empathy and activism. Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. spoke of ‘soul force’ – something that emanates from a deep truth inside of us and empowers us to act. Once you identify your inner genius, you will be able to take action, whether it’s writing a check or digging a well.
Nothing is so envied as genius, nothing so hopeless of attainment by labor alone. Though labor always accompanies the greatest genius, without the intellectual gift labor alone will do little.
It is Proust’s implacable honesty, his reluctance to cut corners or to articulate what might have been good enough or credible enough in any other writer that make him the introspective genius he is.
Many men of genius must arise before a particular man of genius can appear.
The problem with Ireland is that it’s a country full of genius, but with absolutely no talent.
There are so many cliches associated with mental health – such as the ‘fine line between lunacy and genius’ – which are, on the whole, a load of rubbish.
Jon Chu is an absolute genius with his story-weaving.
Hendrix was a natural genius who played many beautiful styles. Talent as great as his doesn’t come through life very frequently. Hendrix was one in a billion.
Genius is patience.
I’d love to work with Kanye West. He’s gone through a lot of stuff in the public eye, but his music is genius. He always takes risks.
