Quotes About Genius

My favorite types of movies definitely aren't thrillers, but at the same time you can't deny the genius of Hitchcock's films.

Genius has oftenest been the pariah of his time, the unhoused god whom none cared for, unnamed till they whom he first promoted, enriched and honored, found it honorable to own their benefactor.

Well, my paper has asked me to do a series: Lives of the Great Musicians, reading time 2 minutes.

Richard Avedon is a true genius of photography and one of the greatest artists of our time.

I feel very fortunate to have been associated with people such as Rodgers and Hammerstein. I think they were geniuses of their time.

Genius is talent provided with ideals. Genius starves while talent wears purple and fine linen. The man of genius of today will infifty years' time be in most cases no more than a man of talent.

Here lay the political genius of Franklin Roosevelt: that in his own time he knew what were the questions that had to be answered, even though he himself did not always find the full answer.

The unrecognized genius of our time.

Michio Kaku and Albert Einstein, they're both so ahead of our time. It's just fascinating to read about them, what their theories are on loopholes and everything else. It's fascinating stuff.

All the geniuses I ever met were so just part of the time. To qualify, you only have to be great once, you know. Once when it matters.

Talent may be in time forgiven, but genius never

I love Seth Rogen's line in which he talks about how you can be both a genius and decent at the same time.

C?r?ile mele sunt ca apa. C?r?ile marilor genii sunt ca vinul. Din fericire toat? lumea bea ap?.

It was a good pup, was that Andrew Jackson, and would have made a name for hisself if he'd lived, for the stuff was in him, and he had genius—I know it, because he hadn't had no opportunities to speak of, and it don't stand to reason that a dog could make such a fight as he could under them circumstances, if he hadn't no talent.

Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered—either by themselves or by others.

so often with Michelangelo, the strangeness is inseparable from the power of the work.

Fortunately, history does not pose problems without eventually producing solutions. The disenchanted, the disadvantaged and the disinherited seem, at times of deep crisis, to summon up some sort of genius that enables them to perceive and capture the appropriate weapons to carve out their destiny.

Very few people will rise to the heights of genius in the arts and the sciences; very few collectively will rise to certain professions. Most of us will have to be content to work in the fields and in the factories and on the streets. But we must see the dignity of all labor.

em geral você subestimou suas próprias aptidões. É possível que você não seja em si mesmo luminoso, mas é um condutor de luz. Algumas pessoas, sem possuir gênio, têm o notável poder de estimulá-lo.

knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius, and

La mediocridad no conoce nada más allá de ella, pero el talento instantáneamente reconoce a los genios.

La mediocridad no reconoce nada por encima de sí misma, pero el talento reconoce al genio al instante

Genialiteit is een vorm van domheid. Het enige wat je ervoor moet doen is zonder na te denken grote keuzes maken.

Let me repeat: the principle mark of genius is not perfection, but originality, the opening of new frontiers; once this is done, the conquered territory becomes common property.