Quotes About Genius

Get real. They'll try to kill us no matter what. I can find out how to open the files from Mickey. You may be impressed with this genius shit but you should really find out what a mess his head is. The right drugs, he'll cut his own throat and forget why he's bleeding." That was an interesting choice of metaphor.

The Most Genius Idea!

The overturning of the pernicious dogma that our intelligence is unchangeable holds enormous implications for every level of society: young and old, rich and poor, genius and cognitively disabled alike. No one is saying that cognitive training can turn an intellectually disabled person into a genius.

In the interest of clarity, we'll define talent in its strictest sense: the possession of repeatable skills that don't depend on physical size (sorry, jockeys and NFL linemen).

Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln BY DORIS KEARNS GOODWIN

The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.

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.

Bach in general was so good with the violin. He just finds the genius way around his music on the instrument.

I grew up playing classical violin and a lot of Bach and Mozart and the things that Einstein loved.

A declaration of the independence of America, and the sovereignty of the United States was drawn by the ingenious and philosophic pen of Thomas Jefferson, Esquire, a delegate from the state of Virginia.

'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' is, to my mind, a work of perfect genius.

He's a tremendous guy. And what's more, he's virtually a genius in the field of management.

Dali is like a man who hesitates between talent and genius, or, as one might once have said, between vice and virtue.

Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright.

You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, and the great charm of all power is modesty.

The H-1B visa is called the 'genius visa' for a reason.

If you stick with a vision, it might not all work, but some of it will be absolute genius. To me, 15 minutes worth of absolute genius in a film is so much better than two hours of mediocrity. I would rather pay to see something different like that.

Genius is that in which the soul of a race bums at its brightest, revealing and preserving its vision; works of art are great and significant in proportion to the clarity and fulness with which they incarnate this vision.

You don't have to be a genius or a visionary or even a college graduate to be successful. You just need a framework and a dream.

Paul Cummins is a genius. He's a true visionary.

We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later.

A neurotic can perfectly well be a literary genius, but his greatest danger is always that he will not recognize when he is dull.

but then the general trouble with ignorance is always that the ignorant person has no idea that that's what they are. You can be ignorant and stupid and go through your whole life without ever encountering any evidence against the hypothesis that you're a genius.

You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, and the great charm of all power is modesty.