Genius Quotes

I also think if you're an actor and you can improvise, when you go on an audition and you can improvise you're just a genius. If you can, you know, take a Tide commercial and you can just say one funny line that's not in the commercial they think you're a genius.

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.

Genius is not a possession of the limited few, but exists in some degree in everyone. Where there is natural growth, a full and free play of faculties, genius will manifest itself.

Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.

Culture and tradition have to change little by little. So 'new' means a little twist, a marriage of Japanese technique with French ingredients. My technique. Indian food, Korean food; I put Italian mozzarella cheese with sashimi. I don't think 'new new new.' I'm not a genius. A little twist.

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.

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.

Those who have wrought great changes in the world never succeeded by gaining over chiefs; but always by exciting the multitude. The first is the resource of intrigue and produces only secondary results, the second is the resort of genius and transforms the universe.

It takes application, a fine sense of value, and a powerful community-spirit for a people to have serious leisure, and this has not been the genius of the Americans.

The ordinary man casts a shadow in a way we do not quite understand. The man of genius casts light.

Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.

A science is any discipline in which the fool of this generation can go beyond the point reached by the genius of the last generation.

I truly miss the genius of the music of John Lennon, as I'm sure everybody does.

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.

Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright.

Judge the goodness of a book by the energy of the punches it has given you. I believe the greatest characteristic of genius, is, above all, force.

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

Picasso, Michelangelo, possibly, might be verging on genius, but I don't think a painter like Rembrandt is a genius.

The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities.

'Sweet Genius'' viewers will be on the edge of their seats as we continue to push the limits with inspirations and ingredients, while showcasing the talents of some of the best pastry chefs around. As a result, the desserts that the chefs create are truly outrageous.

Genius is nothing but continued attention.

A genius knows how to make himself easily understood without being obvious about it.

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.

Genius, like humanity, rusts for want of use.

Every man is a potential genius until he does something.

Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

First have being in your mind. Make real in your mind then bring that being into reality. The genius is he who sees what is not yet and causes it to come to be.

Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy.

If we will maintain our hope and confidence in the genius of our people, they will work out this problem, and their ability and industry will bring us back to normal conditions.

To understand Mozart's contradictory qualities would indeed be to understand genius.