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.
The basic idea of 'The Venture Brothers' was taking the world of 'Jonny Quest' and jumping back into 30 years later, seeing how someone who grew up like Jonny - with that kind of space race enthusiasm and disregard for...
I think Stephen Sondheim is a - and I hardly ever use this word - but this is as close as it gets to a genius.
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Joss Whedon who created 'Buffy The Vampire Slayer,' 'Angel,' and all that... he is a genius.
The 'Chronicles of Narnia' have been favourites of mine since my childhood when I misread 'Aslan' as 'Alsatian' and was struck by the genius of naming a lion after a dog!
People think that I'm some kind of genius who's got these statements to say, and... I'm not really.
Indians take great pleasure in celebrating a genius, and then go into mindless criticism once the celebrity starts doing well.
And we owe science to the combined energies of individual men of genius, rather than to any tendency to progress inherent in civilization.
Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.
By and large, talent is in such short supply that mediocrity can be taken for brilliance rather more than genius can go undiscovered.
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.
A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius.
I think you're all mad. But that's part and parcel of being an artistic genius, isn't it?
The drafts which true genius draws upon posterity, although they may not always be honored so soon as they are due, are sure to be paid with compound interest in the end.
Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance.
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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.
