Genius Quotes

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.

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.

To know one's self is wisdom, but not to know one's neighbors is genius.

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.

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.

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 put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.

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.

I think you're all mad. But that's part and parcel of being an artistic genius, isn't it?

Churchill was one of the few men I have met who even in the flesh give me the impression of genius. George Bernard Shaw is another. It is amusing to know that each thinks the other is overrated.

Susceptibility to the highest forces is the highest genius.

The dread of criticism is the death of genius.

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.

Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.