Genius Quotes
Brilliance, and what it takes to keep it.
This page treats genius as something both rare and slightly absurd, a reminder that even a cultivated mind stays subject to ordinary conditions, and a wry claim that monogamy demands more talent than acting does, close to Intelligence quotes.
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.
In Mozart and Salieri we see the contrast between the genius which does what it must and the talent which does what it can.
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I figured if the plane goes down, I'll go with a great genius and will always have my name connected with his.
Depression is an illness. It is not a ticket to genius. It is not an interesting personality quirk. It is horrible and all-consuming and really hurts.
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.'
I think that's the genius part of what the Patriots do: They go above and beyond in identifying the issue and doing whatever they can to make sure it doesn't wreck the offensive plan.
I'm not exactly a maths genius - I'm really good at maths, maths was my favorite subject in school, but I wasn't a genius.
My evil genius Procrastination has whispered me to tarry 'til a more convenient season.
As well as being a creative genius, Vidal Sassoon was a formative figure of the Sixties. Along with the Pill and the mini-skirt, his influence was truly liberating.
The iPhone will forever be associated with the inventive genius of Steve Jobs and Silicon Valley. But the roots of innovation can be traced back - from one genius to another, at least - back to the genius who put...
If you're a man and you ask questions, you're a genius; if you're a woman, you're difficult.
In its heyday, the car was an expression of technical flair and design genius: the original Mini, the Beetle, the 2CV, and the Fiat 500 were all, in their various ways, inspired incarnations of functionality.
But mathematics is the sister, as well as the servant, of the arts and is touched by the same madness and genius.
The genius of the Marx Brothers is for parody. They never are themselves. They exist too abundantly to be content with being that - they must go on, by the rapidest of transitions, to being something else. Groucho, in my...
No one turns down a film with Woody; it's something everyone wants in their career as an important moment. He's such a comedic genius, without question, so I was thrilled.
I look at bands like the Beach Boys, Hall & Oates and Blur, and those are the bands I want to be in company with because their songwriting is intelligent, and yet you don't need to be a musical genius...
Like many businessmen of genius he learned that free competition was wasteful, monopoly efficient. And so he simply set about achieving that efficient monopoly.
Genius is another word for magic, and the whole point of magic is that it is inexplicable.
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One line pictures genius shooting rays through clouds before it fully emerges, while another ties business success to tapping a team's collective genius. Related pages: Creativity and Mind.
