Quotes About Genius

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

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.

Yeah, I'm very smart.

It is sobering to consider that when Mozart was my age he had already been dead for a year.

Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.

A lot of chefs are traditional and do it very well. But the ones who are the most successful are the ones who change things. That is why someone like Heston Blumenthal is a genius.

I knew Charlie Parker, and he gave us such a gift with his music. He put so much into so little space, and it was tragic that he died so young.

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.

Alan Turing is such an amazing, tragic story.

I was trained in storytelling by Jim Shooter, Stan Lee, and Larry Hama. Doesn't make me a genius, and there really isn't anything fancy about the stage direction in my scripts.

The genius of the Marx Brothers is for parody. They never are themselves. They exist too abundantly to be content with being that - they must go on, by the rapidest of transitions, to being something else. Groucho, in my opinion the bright star among the three, is never anything but the thing he is at the moment pretending to be.

I was diagnosed with a severe temporal spatial deficit, a learning disability that means I have zero spatial relations skills. It was official: I was a genius trapped in an idiot's body.

I had not until then fully realized that I was odd, that there was anything strange about growing up with a single-parent genius. I thought all homes had equations scrawled with disc-marker across all the cabinets and walls, and clean laundry in the freezer, and defrosting chicken in the tool drawer. I thought everyone read a book a day and listened to hours of ancient music.

Genius discovers a system; average talent stereotypes it till it is shattered by fresh genius. It is dangerous for an army to be led by veterans; for on the other side God may place Napoleon.

Genius discovers a system; average talent stereotypes it till it is shattered by fresh genius.

Zdepasto i grbavo deblo drveta nikada ne bi povjerovalo da može postati statua, zadivljuju?e umjetni?ko djelo, i nikada se ne bi podložilo dlijetu kipara, koji svojim genijem proni?e što sve može na?initi od tog debla

Ferdy, you're a genius!" "That's what all the girls say," said Ferdy. "Boys, too, actually.

You been tellin' me you're a genius Since you were seventeen In all the time I've known you I still don't know what you mean --Steely Dan

You've been telling me you're a genius since you were seventeen In all the time I've known you I still don't know what you mean.

Toutes nos créations originales et puissantes sont le fruit d'une concentration, d'une monomanie sublime, proche de la folie.

All the bourgeois virtues, caution, obedience, zeal and thoughtfulness- they all melt away powerless in the fire of the great fateful moment that always demands only genius and forms it into a a lasting image. Contemptuously it repulses the timid man; it, another god of the earth, with fiery arms, lifts only the bold into the heaven of heroes.

I am not one to compare long melodies as did Mozart. I can't get beyond short themes. But what I can do, is to utilize such a theme, paraphrase it and extract everything that is in it, and I don't think there's anybody today who can match me at that.

Terrible es la venganza de aquel capricho del destino que tan rara vez desciende hasta los mortales, cuando cae injustamente en manos de quien no sabe hacer uso de él. Todas las virtudes burguesas, la prudencia, la obediencia, el empeño y la discreción se funden y se derriten impotentes ante las brasas de aquel gran momento del destino que solo reclama al genio y que forjará de él una imagen inmortal.

Solo quien conoce las profundidades, conoce la vida completa. Solo el retroceso da al hombre toda su energía para avanzar. El genio creador necesita esta forzada soledad temporal para medir desde la lejanía de la exclusión el horizonte y la altura de su verdadera tarea.