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.
I’m a bordering genius.
When you step back and watch people, you realize that we use every single body part. Movement, dance – I find it genius because it’s ultimate expression, really.
Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.
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?
The only way you can get good, unless you’re a genius, is to copy. That’s the best thing. Just steal.
I’ve always known I was a genius. But I never thought I was a star.
When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
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.
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.
The three theater peeps I would love to dine with are Mel Brooks, because he is so funny; Stephen Sondheim, because he is a god-like genius; and Ethel Merman, to compare notes on fabulous belting.
I really got into ‘The Walking Dead.’ That was genius. And I have to say, my husband is on ‘Shameless,’ and I think it’s a brilliant show.
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 to pick it up.
Donna Tartt is a genius.
‘Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?’ is, to my mind, a work of perfect genius.
Genius – to know without having learned; to draw just conclusions from unknown premises; to discern the soul of things.
I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child.
Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.
Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.
It is always well to get near to men of genius.
Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance.
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.
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.
Indians take great pleasure in celebrating a genius, and then go into mindless criticism once the celebrity starts doing well.
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.
Almost all the noblest things that have been achieved in the world, have been achieved by poor men; poor scholars, poor professional men, poor artisans and artists, poor philosophers, poets, and men of genius.
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.
The genius of Kate Middleton is that she hasn’t gone too far. She’s still dressing in a way that people can relate to.
I think ‘genius’ is an overused word.
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 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 think there are ways to get so caught up in your career and being so heavy and dramatic, and everyone wants to be a tortured 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.
No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.
Working off one genius sketch is not the way great architecture should be made.
Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.
Many African people are smarter than me – kids who could have been better. I have no claim for genius.
Gene Roddenberry was a genius.
I never said I was a genius.
Of course, I consider myself a feminist, but I wouldn’t say I’m a feminist genius or anything.
The iambic pentameter owes its pre-eminence in English poetry to its genius for variation. Good blank verse does not sound like a series of identically measured lines. It sounds like a series of subtle variations on the same theme.
I’ve never met Lena Dunham, but I’m such a huge fan – I think she’s a crazy genius.
The one thing that Hendrix had that is unique among extraordinary guitar players is he had songs that were on the radio. His guitar genius was exposed to the masses by ‘Foxy Lady.’
If I had an idea for a genius app, don’t you think I would be getting it made immediately?
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.
I love cooking. My Italian mother is a genius cook, and I picked that up from her. I make my own sauce, which takes four hours, from a recipe that’s been refined over many years. I won’t tell anybody what it is.
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.
The world is not so much in need of new thoughts as that when thought grows old and worn with usage it should, like current coin, be called in, and, from the mint of genius, reissued fresh and new.
When I was at Cambridge in the early fifties, there was a school nearby for training Army officers in Russian, and some imaginative genius came up with the idea of putting on Russian plays with the students to improve their language skills.
Since when was genius found respectable?
The ordinary man casts a shadow in a way we do not quite understand. The man of genius casts light.
Having a million-dollar net worth doesn’t make you a genius, and having less than a million-dollar net worth doesn’t make you a fool.
Many people think I am an idiot. I think I am a genius.
If you are delusional, sometimes the reality catches up with your delusion, and then all of a sudden you are a genius.
Talent works, genius creates.
A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius.
I’m a sport fan. So, I have always watched everything, and I used to watch racing. Formula One was always on. The genius about it is that it’s on at lunchtime on a Sunday.
A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
I mean, Scorsese’s a genius, and that’s one way of shooting.
I do feel very strongly that this is one of the things which people need encouragement to sort out, because I have this very strong feeling that everybody is probably a genius at something, it’s just a question of finding this.
T Bone is genius. The way they’ve recorded my voice and the instrumentation to these songs is really quite extraordinary.
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.
Our nation was not founded because we all looked alike, or prayed alike, or descended from the same family tree. But our founders, in their genius, in this, the oldest constitutional democracy, put forth on this earth the idea that all are created equal; that we all have inalienable rights.
Mike is a genius guitar player and keyboard player. I realized that, with this group, I just joined Mike Keneally’s band!
My evil genius Procrastination has whispered me to tarry ’til a more convenient season.
I always thought what made ‘Beetlejuice’ look so great was because it looked like some genius kid made it in his basement.
One good thing about being a woman is we haven’t too many examples yet of what a genius looks like.
When I edit, I’m not from the school of Hello, I’m a genius, so everybody shut up. I’m from the school of Let’s play it once in front of an audience, and then I’ll tell you where it is going.
