Quotes About Genius

Mike Myers as Austin Powers makes me laugh - that was genius - and Daffy Duck makes me laugh, but I like odd behavior. I don't like hip dialogue and one-liners and all that sort of cool, sophomoric comedy. It's just not for me.

The element of truth in the concept of genius is to be sought in the object, in what is open, not confined by repetition.

I buy everything India Arie, just because she's such a positive person, and I just love her music. Her music's so soulful... I think Kanye West is a genius musically.

Whether it's music or acting, that creativity all comes from the same source.

I know quite a few fellow members of the news analysis and commentary business, and I have it from the highest-placed sources, on the record, that each and every one of our children is a genius.

The mainspring of genius is curiosity.

When your madness is creative and necessary, people will not notice the fact that you are crazy.

True genius without heart is a thing of nought - for not great understanding alone, not intelligence alone, nor both together, make genius. Love! Love! Love! that is the soul of genius.

The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction.

Against attempts on my life, I trust in my luck, my good genius, and my guards.

Blessed be, the genius who never knew good fortune! Genius in itself already means so much; what meaning does luck still hold for him?

Character is Power. Character is greater than talent, genius, fame, money, friends — there is nothing to compare with it.

Then a genius has been born!

A better definition of a genius is, "a man who has discovered how to increase the vibrations of thought to the point where he can freely communicate with sources of knowledge not available through the ordinary rate of vibration of thought.

Fortunate, indeed, is the person who has discovered how to give sex emotion an outlet through some form of creative effort, for he has, by that discovery, lifted himself to the status of a genius.

Sex energy is the creative energy of all genii. There never has been, and never will be a great leader, builder, or artist lacking in this driving force of sex.

Abraham Lincoln was a failure at everything he tried, until he was well past the age of forty. He was a Mr Nobody from Nowhere, until a great experience came into his life, aroused the sleeping genius within his heart and brain, and gave the world one of its really great men.

the greatest inventor who ever lived.

A better definition of a genius is, "a man who has discovered how to increase the intensity of thought to the point where he can freely communicate with sources of knowledge not available through the ordinary rate of thought.

Millions of children have had their imagination dwarfed and retarded by parents who removed as much as possible of the urge of necessity. By "making it easy" for your child you may be depriving the world of a genius. Bear in mind the fact that most of the progress that man has made came as the result of bitter, biting NECESSITY!

The imagination of the genius vastly surpasses his intellect; the intellect of the academic vastly surpasses his imagination

Michelangelo was asked by the pope about the secret of his genius, particularly how he carved the statue of David, largely considered the masterpiece of all masterpieces. His answer was: "It's simple. I just remove everything that is not David.

in Ovid, difficulty is what wakes up the genius (ingenium mala saepe movent)

Mathematicians are born, never made. Physicists and quants too. I