Everybody denies I am a genius – but nobody ever called me one!
As an actor, I really like Philip Seymour Hoffman. I think he’s a genius.
The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in his ideas.
Doorman – a genius who can open the door of your car with one hand, help you in with the other, and still have one left for the tip.
The genius of any slave system is found in the dynamics which isolate slaves from each other, obscure the reality of a common condition, and make united rebellion against the oppressor inconceivable.
Einstein was very attracted to Mozart. There’s a mathematical, classical structure to the music, and I think he identified with that very strongly. I think there also is a connection between being a genius and a polymath.
Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.
Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.
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.
And we owe science to the combined energies of individual men of genius, rather than to any tendency to progress inherent in civilization.
The sheer genius of talk radio and Townhall.com is that the environment is so interactive.
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.
There is nothing in the genius of America more precious today than the spirit of religious and political tolerance in its application to our own people.
Genius is one of the many forms of insanity.
Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.
What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality?
Hong Kong girls have a genius sense of style. I came back to the States thinking no one here has any individuality. Or cute enough socks.
If I wait for the genius to come, it just doesn’t arrive.
Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
Genius is that in which the soul of a race bums at its brightest, revealing and preserving its vision; works of art are great and significant in proportion to the clarity and fulness with which they incarnate this vision.
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.
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.
There are few words in the music business or in art that I’ll say people or some writers are overgenerous with words like ‘legend’ or ‘genius’, ‘he’s a pioneer’ and all of that.
Jerry Orbach is just phenomenal. He is genius, so present.
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
Jerome Robbins, to me, is the genius of a lifetime.
If you stick with a vision, it might not all work, but some of it will be absolute genius. To me, 15 minutes worth of absolute genius in a film is so much better than two hours of mediocrity. I would rather pay to see something different like that.
Thirty, 40 years ago, more than that now, even, the cook was certainly at the bottom of the social scale. And any mother would’ve wanted their child to marry a doctor, a lawyer, an architect, not a cook. Now, we are genius, it’s different.
My job is to pay attention to my children’s genius and allow those leanings to lead them to their future.
Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.
I think there are very few people that I would give the title of genius to, really, but Beethoven unquestionably is one of them.
Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.
Oh, I’m impressed with Lorraine Hansberry. She was a genius at whose feet I could sit.
I did buy ‘The Sun’ a few times, but I just don’t read the tabloids. Sometimes they can have genius witty headlines, but that’s all. There’s nothing to read.
My goal is to create friend machines. Friendly genius machines. Machines with genius capabilities.
To appreciate and use correctly a valuable maxim requires a genius; a vital appropriating exercise of mind closely allied to that which first created it.
Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.
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.
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.
The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.
Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.
The only good political movement I’ve seen lately was Occupy Wall Street. They had no leaders, which was genius. But unfortunately it always ends up with some hippy playing a flute.
When it comes to peaking at the right time, I have to thank my coach Mike Holmes: he is a genius.
I do not use the word ‘genius’ lightly, but if David Bowie is not a genius, then there is no such thing.
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.
A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.
I’m playing an Amazon warrior princess in a new radio comedy series called ‘Elvenquest,’ and I’m playing a Russian genius in the comeback of ‘Red Dwarf.’
Freedom is the only law which genius knows.
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?
Art Tatum was a 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 modes of expression of men of genius differ as much as their souls, and it is impossible to say that in some among them, drawing and color are better or worse than in others.
Whoopi Goldberg, Lily Tomlin, Julia Louis-Dreyfus – I put Issa Rae in that category of comic genius.
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.
No one can arrive from being talented alone, work transforms talent into 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 think Milly Shapiro is a genius. She’s just a fantastic person and a fantastic actress.
Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
Because you are a great lord, you believe yourself to be a great genius. You took the trouble to be born, but no more.
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.
Better beware of notions like genius and inspiration; they are a sort of magic wand and should be used sparingly by anybody who wants to see things clearly.
As far as me knowing if Frank was a genius – in those days, I thought Einstein was the only genius around.
To me, the real genius in making television for kids is making something that inadvertently – or perhaps intentionally – becomes something that can be enjoyed by people of all ages.
If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators.
Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.
Donna Summer was such a genius.
I never paid attention to many of the Nicholas Sparks films. ‘The Notebook,’ which my wife liked, I felt that Ryan Gosling was a genius in it and Rachel McAdams has this thing about her that you just want to take care of her. I remember that chemistry between them.
The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.
