Quotes About Genius

You know the look: genius gone to pot, and ready to join the Communist Party

I have not slept. Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream: The Genius and the mortal instruments Are then in council; and the state of man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection.

Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasm or a hideous dream. The genius and the moral instruments Are then in council, and the state of a man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection.

Thereafter mighty forces were adrift, the void was open, and into that void after a pause there strode a maniac of ferocious genius, the repository and expression of the most virulent hatreds that have ever corroded the human breast—Corporal Hitler.

Quién de nosotros sabría admirar a los grandes genios, si en la escuela no se le hubiese puesto bien en la cabeza que son grandes genios?

What else is genius than that productive power through which deeds arise, worthy of standing in the presence of God and Nature, and which, for this reason, bear results and are lasting? All the creations of Mozart are of this class; within them there is a generative force which is transplanted from generation to generation, and is not likely soon to be exhausted or devoured. CHIPS

he's a genius, she's a genius, wow, you know alot of geniuses, you should meet some stupid people sometime, you might learn something

El genio irlandés Parnell sabía la respuesta, pero nadie le formularía la pregunta.

I wrote one single joke for Don Adams. Jonathan Winters needed nothing from anyone; he was simply a genius.

On that movie, I fired Haskell Wexler. I always thought he was a genius cameraman but I found him infantile, annoying like a pestering child, and I realized early if we had to have a Talmudic disagreement before and after every shot, I'd run months over schedule. I was sorry to do it, as I had looked forward to working with such a gifted man, but the chemistry was bad.

Any fool can make something complicated. It takes a genius to make it simple.

No man was ever great without a touch of divine afflatus.

Dans la stupidité il est un sérieux qui, mieux orienté, pourrait multiplier la somme des chefs-d'oeuvre.

Geniuses have the shortest biographies.

Each child has a spark of genius waiting to be discovered, ignited, and fed. And the goal of schools shouldn't be to manufacture "productive citizens" to fill some corporate cubicle; it should be to inspire each child to find a "calling" that will change the world. The jobs for the future are no longer Manager, Director, or Analyst, but Entrepreneur, Creator, and even Revolutionary.

Perhaps Mahalia, like Paul Celan, has already lived all our lives for us. Perhaps that is the definition of genius. Hegel says, "Each man hopes and believes he is better than the world which is his, but the man who is better merely expresses this same world better than the others.

Genius worship is the inevitable sign of an uncreative age.

Nijinsky got all his master classes over in a single line of explanation.

Gdybym istotnie przy tej jaÅ'owi?nie, przy tej niemocy czynu, posiadaÅ' nawet genialne zdolnoÅ›ci, to byÅ'bym jakimÅ› szczególnym rodzajem geniusza bez teki.

Genius all over the world stands hand in hand, and one shock of recognition runs the whole circle round.

Genius is initiative on fire.

It's genius," he says, "but definitely evil genius.

The man whose action habitually bears the stamp of his mind is a genius, but the greatest genius is not always equal to himself, or he would cease to be human.

Men bow before the power of genius; they hate it, and try to slander it, because genius does not divide the spoil; but if genius persists, they bow before it.