Quotes About Genius

Follow a trail of bold mistakes and at the end of them you will find a genius.

There were two kinds of physicists in Berlin: on the one hand there was Einstein, and on the other all the rest.

Traditional theories of human creativity ascribe it to inspiration from a higher source working through the creative individual, who acts as a channel. The same conception underlies the notion of genius; originally the genius was not the person himself but his presiding god or spirit.

It is better to be a human without any gifts than a Jinn or a genius with one too many.

her first husband was a 'genius with a misdirected mind'.

You have to have a talent for having talent.

Back then, I say, you could have died easily as he, all those frail geniuses died of syphilis or TB.

Varjak Paw,' said Elyza Scratch, unsheathing her claws, 'the way Razor fooled Luger was genius, and I take back everything I said.

What a genius, that Picasso. It is a pity he doesn't paint.

A close scrutiny of excellence, however, reveals that our edge—our particular genius—is precise. We each have specific areas where we consistently stand out, where we can do things, see things, understand things, and learn things better and faster than ten thousand other people can.

A genius with the IQ of a moron. GORE VIDAL, ON ANDY WARHOL

Genius is an infinite capacity for causing pain.

Girls did that then – knocked themselves out to support some man's notion of his own genius. What was Gavin doing to help pay the rent? Not much, though she suspected him of dealing pot on the side. Once in a while they even smoked some of that, though not often, because it made Constance cough. It was all very romantic.

Silicon Valley has some of the smartest engineers and technology business people in the world.

THE GENIUS of the industrial system lies in its organized use of capital and technology. This is made possible, as we have duly seen, by extensively replacing the market with planning.

That brain of mine is something more than merely mortal; as time will show.

Mastery is not a function of genius or talent. It is a function of time and intense focus applied to a particular field of knowledge.

Elvis Presley is the main founding father of rock music. He was an unheralded genius behind a new music that changed western civilization for all time.

Bobby Fischer is the greatest Chess genius of all time!

The genius of Man in our time has gone into jet-propulsion, atom-splitting, penicillin-curing, etc. There is none left over for works of imagination; of spiritual insight or mystical enlightenment.

Genius is the very eye of intellect and the wing of thought; it is always in advance of its time, and is the pioneer for the generation which it precedes.

Marvin Gaye is our John Lennon. The longer he's gone, the more young people appreciate his art. 'What's Going On' was a work of genius far ahead of it's time.

Christ to Satan, we are cut from the same cloth, every one of us. And we have the choice to be in eternity anything we wish. Man or woman. Genius or idiot, and all between. Physical beauty means nothing. God sees the heart. Wealth is only a test of what we would do with it. It is a loan from God, as are our talents, a way to prove whether we will use them well or ill. The judgment is awaiting us.

An actor said at one point that evil was a necessity. It was food for genius.