I have never been an innovator, a creative genius.
~By Lawrence Welk ~
Unless one is a genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible.
~By Anthony Hope ~
Which is why, in my lieder concerts, I always strove, when possible, to sing only the works of a single composer, so that the audience could be gradually drawn into a particular creative genius' way of thinking, and could follow him.
~By Dietrich Fischer Dieskau ~
Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.
~By Joe Theismann ~
And indeed if you think you're a genius at something, what you achieve is very much according to your expectations; if you think you're no good, you're not going to get anywhere.
~By Diana Wynne Jones ~
Olivier was another case of a genius, who couldn't understand why anybody would have any trouble doing this, because for him it came so easily.
~By James Lipton ~
Then I heard this genius teacher Stella Adler - I recommend you read anything you might find about her and if you have anyone interested in theatre, you get them one of her books.
~By Harvey Keitel ~
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.
~By Georg C. Lichtenberg ~
Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.
~By Charles Bukowski ~
Jim Carrey, a comic genius, has a harder time overcoming the public's desire for him to be funny simply because he's so good at it.
~By Ben Stiller ~
Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
~By Horace ~
Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
~By Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton ~
As far as me knowing if Frank was a genius - in those days, I thought Einstein was the only genius around.
~By Jimmy Carl Black ~
The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in his ideas.
~By Victor Hugo ~
The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
~By Arthur Koestler ~
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.
~By William Hazlitt ~
We can all be geniuses because one definition of genius is the infinite capacity for taking pains.
~By Knute Rockne ~
Genius, like humanity, rusts for want of use.
~By William Hazlitt ~
Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.
~By W. H. Auden ~
Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them.
~By Robertson Davies ~
Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.
~By Madame de Stael ~
Every man is a potential genius until he does something.
~By Herbert Beerbohm Tree ~
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.
~By Gamal Abdel Nasser ~
My own experience is that a certain kind of genius among students is best brought out in bed.
~By Allen Ginsberg ~
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.
~By Carl Jung ~
Since when was genius found respectable?
~By Elizabeth Barrett Browning ~
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.
~By Diana Wynne Jones ~
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.
~By George Clooney ~
I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.
~By Oscar Wilde ~
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.
~By Samuel Taylor Coleridge ~
The ordinary man casts a shadow in a way we do not quite understand. The man of genius casts light.
~By George Steiner ~
What moves those of genius, what inspires their work is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough.
~By Eugene Delacroix ~
A neurotic can perfectly well be a literary genius, but his greatest danger is always that he will not recognize when he is dull.
~By Louis Auchincloss ~
Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.
~By Simone Weil ~
I've never met a genius. A genius to me is someone who does well at something he hates. Anybody can do well at something he loves - it's just a question of finding the subject.
~By Clint Eastwood ~
The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty years later.
~By Louis Aragon ~
God and Nature first made us what we are, and then out of our own created genius we make ourselves what we want to be. Follow always that great law. Let the sky and God be our limit and Eternity our measurement.
~By Marcus Garvey ~
When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
~By Jonathan Swift ~
A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius.
~By Charles Horton Cooley ~
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.
~By Aneurin Bevan ~
Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius.
~By Edward Gibbon ~
Some Italians are geniuses, but you have to find a balance.
~By Alain Prost ~
Genius is independent of situation.
~By Charles Churchill ~
Genius is nothing but continued attention.
~By Claude Adrien Helvetius ~
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.
~By Louisa May Alcott ~
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.
~By Auguste Rodin ~
Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
~By E. B. White ~
Intelligence recognizes what has happened. Genius recognizes what will happen.
~By John Ciardi ~
Genius is one of the many forms of insanity.
~By Cesare Lombroso ~
Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius.
~By An Wang ~
Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.
~By Bern Williams ~
Australians are geniuses with a good sense of humour.
~By Fred Schneider ~
In this world no one rules by love; if you are but amiable, you are no hero; to be powerful, you must be strong, and to have dominion you must have a genius for organizing.
~By John Henry Newman ~
The art music of the West has developed through out its history by means of individual geniuses, and out of the soil supporting them; non-Western musicians were born, and grew like the grasses of the field.
~By Toru Takemitsu ~
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.
~By Mark Rydell ~
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.
~By Jose Ortega y Gasset ~
One of the strongest characteristics of genius is the power of lighting its own fire.
~By John W. Foster ~
If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.
~By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~
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.
~By John Philip Sousa ~
Genius is always accompanied by enthusiasm.
~By Bryant H. McGill ~
Can a woman become a genius of the first class? Nobody can know unless women in general shall have equal opportunity with men in education, in vocational choice, and in social welcome of their best intellectual work for a number of generations.
~By Anna Garlin Spencer ~
The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
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.
~By Richard Attenborough ~
She was a genius, my mother.
~By Sally Kirkland ~
It will work. I am a marketing genius.
~By Paris Hilton ~
The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.
~By Edgar Allan Poe ~
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.
~By Kim Cattrall ~
Yesterday I was thinking about the whole idea of genius and creative people, and the notion that if you create some magical art, somehow that exempts you from having to pay attention to the small things.
~By Bell Hooks ~
If there be anything that can be called genius, it consists chiefly in ability to give that attention to a subject which keeps it steadily in the mind, till we have surveyed it accurately on all sides.
~By Robert Quillen ~
Buddy Rich is one of a kind; he's a genius, and that's all there is to it.
~By Mel Torme ~
Passion is the genesis of genius.
~By Tony Robbins ~
Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.
~By Oscar Wilde ~
I realized what you could do in motion pictures by surrounding yourself with geniuses.
~By Richard Donner ~
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?
~By Robert Fripp ~
The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as "Soho" poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of a genius and no talent.
~By Quentin Crisp ~
Reason is mechanical, wit chemical, and genius organic spirit.
~By Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel ~
His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.
~By Thomas A. Edison ~
Taste is the common sense of genius.
~By Victor Hugo ~
The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.
~By Aneurin Bevan ~
To understand Mozart's contradictory qualities would indeed be to understand genius.
~By Lukas Foss ~
Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore they choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing them.
~By Joseph Addison ~
Genius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has been pried from its hands and the blood has been cleaned up.
~By Terry Pratchett ~
And we owe science to the combined energies of individual men of genius, rather than to any tendency to progress inherent in civilization.
~By Chauncey Wright ~
Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it.
~By Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton ~
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.
~By William R. Alger ~
Genius is the very eye of intellect and the wing of thought; it is always in advance of its time, and is the pioneer for the generation which it precedes.
~By William Gilmore Simms ~
A man possesses talent; genius possesses the man.
~By Isaac Stern ~
Nor ought a genius less than his that writ attempt translation.
~By John Denham ~
Genius always finds itself a century too early.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
The cult of individuality and personality, which promotes painters and poets only to promote itself, is really a business. The greater the 'genius' of the personage, the greater the profit.
~By George Grosz ~
Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into beauty like a reed.
~By George Henry Lewes ~
I mean, Scorsese's a genius, and that's one way of shooting.
~By Stanley Tucci ~
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.
~By Albert Einstein ~
During this earlier period of his activity Voltaire seems to have been trying - half unconsciously, perhaps - to discover and to express the fundamental quality of his genius.
~By Lytton Strachey ~
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.
~By David Ogilvy ~
The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category.
~By Adolf Hitler ~
Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence.
~By Johann Kaspar Lavater ~
Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Only engage, and then the mind grows heated. Begin, and then the work will be completed.
~By Jean Anouilh ~
Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.
~By Fulton J. Sheen ~
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