Quotes About Genius

To men and women who want to do things, there is nothing quite so driving as the force of an imprisoned ego. . . . All genius comes from this class.

Young men and young women, full of courage, originality, and genius, are everywhere to be met with.

Men and women make sad mistakes about their own symptoms, taking their vague uneasy longings, sometimes for genius, sometimes for religion, and oftener still for a mighty love.

Wifehood and motherhood... are a bigger handicap than the average male genius would... essay to carry to success.

All geniuses born women are lost to the public good.

It is hard to overstate the debt we owe to the men and women of genius.

Use your mind's talents diligently, your heart's powers incredibly, and your soul's genius profitably.

Stir the world with your skills, shake the world with your talents, move the world with your brilliance, change the world with your genius.

Don't try to silence other people's genius because you're too deaf to hear your own.

Your mind has the intellect to lift the world, your heart has the wisdom to better the world, and your soul has the genius to elevate the world.

Skill follows the rules, talent breaks the rules, mastery shatters the rules, but genius makes its own rules.

Stanley Kubrick is one of the geniuses of this century.

I like David Lynch; I like Stanley Kubrick. I'm a big fan of Kubrick.

Indians take great pleasure in celebrating a genius, and then go into mindless criticism once the celebrity starts doing well.

In the startup world, you're either a genius or an idiot. You're never just an ordinary guy trying to get through the day.

People think that I'm some kind of genius who's got these statements to say, and... I'm not really.

The lead singer for Deerhunter, Bradford Cox... I don't like saying people are geniuses or whatever, but I just think that dude is so good at every single thing he does. He stays within his genre, but I think he does so well experimenting with stuff.

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.

There is no hierarchy of values any more. Real progress is due mainly to human genius, and that's rare, and usually stems from a real elite, from a hierarchy.

Could we have entered into the mind of Sir Isaac Newton, and have traced all the steps by which he produced his great works, we might see nothing very extraordinary in the process.

Honestly, I feel like I spent the last 10 years just trying to work, just get my hands on the best material I could. I'd like to say that it was quite calculated and genius, my ability to take one step forward and two steps back.

Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.

Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Genius is an infinite capacity for pain.