Genius Quotes

The genius of the economic machine is in its ability to convert these indulgences into profitability. It converts desire into attention, a grip on our eyeballs and eardrums, which in turn can be marketed to advertisers.

I have never been an innovator, a creative genius.

Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth.

Genius is eternal patience.

What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.

We can all be geniuses because one definition of genius is the infinite capacity for taking pains.

The meetings of the legislature at Springfield then first brought together that splendid group of young men of genius whose phenomenal careers and distinguished services have given Illinois fame in the history of the nation.

Rising genius always shoots out its rays from among the clouds, but these will gradually roll away and disappear as it ascends to its steady luster.

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.

I've always said that the word 'genius,' especially in Hollywood, is way overused.

Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.

Genius is sorrow's child.

Taste is the fundamental quality which sums up all the other qualities. It is the nec plus ultra of the intelligence. Through this alone is genius the supreme health and balance of all the faculties.

Talent does whatever it wants to do. Genius does only what it can.

As actors, we deal with rejection so much more than any other business. So I don't care how much of a genius you are, if you don't have the propensity to be able to get back up every time you get knocked down, then you're not going to survive.

Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.

Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character had abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and courage which it contained.

Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.

When my nephew was 3 and 4, he would say the most genius things. He said, You're hammer macho with FBI dogs. I thought it was just one of those great lines.

Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.

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.

Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence.

To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent. To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius.

Intelligence recognizes what has happened. Genius recognizes what will happen.

Genius is rarely able to give any account of its own processes.

Taste is the feminine of genius.

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.

God gives talent. Work transforms talent into genius.

If you are a genius, you'll make your own rules, but if not - and the odds are against it - go to your desk no matter what your mood, face the icy challenge of the paper - write.

The only way you can get good, unless you're a genius, is to copy. That's the best thing. Just steal.