Quotes About Genius

Shakespeare was very political, but he was also a fabulous entertainer. That's where his genius comes in as a playwright.

Shakespeare is, after all, Britain's greatest poet and dramatist.

What Einstein was able to do was - to use a cliche - think out of the box.

I think Aaron Sorkin is like Shakespeare. When you go through it, there is a rhythm and clues all over the place of how it should be played.

People are born comedians.

Look at the real prodigies, and I look like nothing compared to them.

I consider myself a composer.

Puccini is my favorite composer.

It's interesting: composers can be very funny ducks.

Brahms is one of my all-time favorite composers.

I haven't checked, but I highly suspect that chickens evolved from an egg-laying ancestor, which would mean that there were, in fact, eggs before there were chickens. Genius.

I sometimes think that life is a circle. See, I cannot get away from genius. At Barca, I had Messi. At Juve, I have Paulo Dybala. Genius follows me everywhere, I swear.

I'm the laziest inventor you ever met. My inventing is in my head - I don't have to be in the lab working and sweating.

On 'Sweet Genius,' you have to be tough with the chefs, but my goal was to guide them and choose the genius who will win $10,000 - not a bad sum at all for one day's work.

There is no off position on the genius switch.

Beethoven's symphonies are not 'relaxing.' They are the most exciting things that have ever been created by a human being.

If a professional musician in a symphony orchestra is playing Beethoven. But this particular orchestra have played this particular chestnut so many times, they can play it in their sleep. Does the genius remain present in the music or not?

I would not dare to say that there is a direct relation between mathematics and madness, but there is no doubt that great mathematicians suffer from maniacal characteristics, delirium, and symptoms of schizophrenia.

Obsession is a synonym for magic. Magic is a synonym for genius. It's a knack. It's an aptitude.

And if the prodigious genius of Azarya Sheiner has never found the solution, then perhaps that is proof that no solution exists, that the most gifted among us is feeble in mind against the brutality of incomprehensibility that assutalts us from all sides. And so we try, as best we cn, to do justice to the tremendousness of our improbable existence. And so we live, as best we can, for ourselves, or who will live for us? And we live, as best we can, for others, otherwise what are we?

The reluctance to put away childish things may be a requirement of genius.

Thus talent sometimes wishes to correct genius, as if the eaglet wished to teach the eagle to fly.

Science is the only truth and it is the great lie. It knows nothing, and people think it knows everything. It is misrepresented. People think that science is electricity, automobilism, and dirigible balloons. It is something very different. It is life devouring itself. It is the sensibility transformed into intelligence. It is the need to know stifling the need to live. It is the genius of knowledge vivisecting the vital genius.

Genius is fine for the ignition spark, but to get there someone has to see that the radiator doesn't leak and no tire is flat.