Quotes by Genius Geniuses are commonly believed to excel other men in their power of sustained attention . . . But it is their genius making them attentive, not their attention making geniuses of them. William James geniusattentionmen Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. William Hazlitt virtuegeniusmen When a superior intellect and a psychopathic temperament coalesce in the same individual, we have the best possible condition for the kind of effective genius that gets into the biographical dictionaries. William James bipolargeniuskind The unrecognized genius of our time. William March our-timegenius The genius of America is production; and a large percentage of our productive enterprises are headed by men who have come up from the worker's bench. William S. Knudsen geniusmenamerica Genius is play, and man's capacity for achieving genius is infinite, and many may achieve genius only through play. William Saroyan geniusplaymen Jack Benny had style from the beginning. He stood straight and walked kind of sideways as if he were being gently shoved by a touch of genius. William Saroyan stylegeniuskind Artistic genius is an expansion of monkey imitativeness. William Winwood Reade monkeysexpansiongenius When I wrote 'My Humps,' I said, 'This is the stupidest thing ever,' but in a good way. I always wondered what it must be like to be a girl, always gettin' pulled on. Maybe she's the smartest genius on the planet, but she's rackin' double Ds with a 26-inch waist and a big ol' ass and no one's ever gonna see her like that because that's the way the world is today. will.i.am geniusgirlworld He thinks too much. Such men are dangerous. William Shakespeare geniusmenthinking True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information. Winston Churchill informationgeniusdecision Alfred Nobel regretted that his invention, dynamite, was converted to degrading use, hence his creation of the Nobel Prize, as the humanist counter to the destructive power of his genius. Wole Soyinka inventioncreationgenius A lot of chefs are traditional and do it very well. But the ones who are the most successful are the ones who change things. That is why someone like Heston Blumenthal is a genius. Wolfgang Puck geniussuccessfulchef Preparation is - if not the key to genius - then at least the key to sounding like a genius. Winston Churchill preparationgeniuskeys Any fool can make something complicated. It takes a genius to make it simple. Woody Guthrie foolgeniussimple "Genius is divine perseverance." Divine patience I believe he originally used, perseverance is better in my opinion. Genius I cannot claim nor even extra brightness but perseverance all can have. Woodrow Wilson brightnessperseverancegenius I know of only six genuine comic geniuses in movie history; Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Groucho Marx & Harpo Marx, Peter Sellers, and W.C. Fields. Woody Allen sixgeniusfields There is none but he William Shakespeare antonygeniussaid You're a genius! And the proof is that both common people and intellectuals find your work completely incoherent. Woody Allen geniuscommonpeople Each man's soul is his genius. Xenocrates geniussoulmen«7879808182838485868788»
