Genius Quotes

The genius of the American system is that through freedom we have created extraordinary results from plain old ordinary people.

The problem with Ireland is that it's a country full of genius, but with absolutely no talent.

Time, place, and action may with pains be wrought, but genius must be born; and never can be taught.

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.

My evil genius Procrastination has whispered me to tarry 'til a more convenient season.

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.

This homage has been rendered not to me - for the Polish soil is fertile and does not lack better writers than me - but to the Polish achievement, the Polish genius.

Common sense is genius in homespun.

If you hype something and it succeeds, you're a genius - it wasn't a hype. If you hype it and it fails, then it was just a hype.

There has been a time on earth when poets had been young and dead and famous - and were men. But now the poet as the tragic child of grandeur and destiny had changed. The child of genius was a woman, now, and the man was gone.

The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius.

Genius is always accompanied by enthusiasm.

Reason is mechanical, wit chemical, and genius organic spirit.

Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.

Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.

It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.

In Goodfellas they have this one scene where the camera goes down some steps and walks through a kitchen into a restaurant and the critics were all over this as evidence of the genius of Scorsese and Scorsese is a genius.

Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.

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.

Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into beauty like a reed.

The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action.

Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.

Genius is immediate, but talent takes time.

The function of a genius is not to give new answers, but to pose new questions which time and mediocrity can resolve.

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.

A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius.

My own experience is that a certain kind of genius among students is best brought out in bed.

Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.

As a bull market continues, almost anything you buy goes up. It makes you feel that investing in stocks is a very easy and safe and that you're a financial genius.

I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.