Genius Quotes

I can't change overnight into a serious literary author. You can't compare apples to oranges. William Faulkner was a great literary genius. I am not.

I figured if the plane goes down, I'll go with a great genius and will always have my name connected with his.

The definition of genius, really, should be that that person can do what the rest of us have to learn how to do.

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.

No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.

You may think me crude, and probably I am crude, but I am not so crude as I was, for I am clever enough to see that the girl of nineteen who thought herself a genius was only an unusual girl writing her heart out.

Talent works, genius creates.

It will work. I am a marketing genius.

People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel.

The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency.

I like the idea of taking a true classic written by a true genius and destroying it essentially! I like the idea of bringing it down to earth a bit - and even a bit lower than that.

Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.

Clinton's fakery was so deft and deeply ingrained that it was impossible to tell where it ended and the real Bill Clinton began. This constituted a kind of political genius.

The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in his ideas.

Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old - old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.

Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius.

Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius.

You go to college not only for the latest knowledge but also to meet people from different backgrounds. That's the genius of the American higher-education system compared with the Europeans'. We don't simply skim the elite.

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.

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.

The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.

A neurotic can perfectly well be a literary genius, but his greatest danger is always that he will not recognize when he is dull.

Ismail Merchant was just the most seductive, passionate, outrageous, driven, genius of a man.

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

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.

I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the variety of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust.

I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhere.

Genius always finds itself a century too early.