Quotes by category:Genius

Genius is nothing more than common faculties refined to a greater intensity. There are no astonishing ways of doing astonishing things. All astonishing things are done by ordinary materials.

Benjamin Haydon

genius done ordinary

The greatest geniuses have always attributed everything to God, as if conscious of being possessed of a spark of His divinity.

Benjamin Haydon

sparks divinity genius

Genius in poverty is never feared, because nature, though liberal in her gifts in one instance, is forgetful in another.

Benjamin Haydon

never-fear poverty genius

Irony can elude the genius among us, sometimes. by Berkeley Breathed

Irony can elude the genius among us, sometimes.

Berkeley Breathed

irony elude genius

Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one's trai... by Bernard Berenson

Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one's training.

Bernard Berenson

reactions training genius

Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire. by Bernard Williams

Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.

Bernard Williams

flames genius fire

His [Michael Jackson] behavior was weird, but when you get an artist and a genius, many of the geniuses throughout our whole history were weird. And they did weird things because none of us could understand what was on their mind and why they did what they did.

genius artist mind

All the labor of all the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noonday brightness of human genius are destined to extinction. So now, my friends, if that is true, and it is true, what is the point?

Bertrand Russell

genius inspiration age

The atomic bomb embodies the results of a combination genius and patience as remarkable as any in the history of mankind.

Bertrand Russell

atomic-bomb bombs genius

I have often noticed that the need for cash and the production of a masterpiece just don't coincide with me. Money will hit me at a big off-period and genius will hit me in starvation, that is, I often get the money when I don't think I deserve it and have been lolling around for days and days thinking the most abysmal thoughts.

genius needs thinking

What is genius, anyway, if it isn't the ability to give an adequa... by Bette Greene

What is genius, anyway, if it isn't the ability to give an adequate response to a great challenge?

genius challenges giving

YOU are a genius!... and I am a genius because I married you. by Bill Cosby

YOU are a genius!... and I am a genius because I married you.

married genius

It's not like you get up on stage and you're immediately a genius. It takes a long time. So, don't be discouraged.

like-you genius long

We don't genuinely need more literary geniuses. One can only read... by Bill James

We don't genuinely need more literary geniuses. One can only read so many books in a lifetime.

genius book needs

The Democrats are very bad at selling their own product. The Republicans are geniuses at it. And I've said it before, a bad product well apologized for is superior in this country to a good product.

democracy genius country

I'm a misunderstood genius. by Bill Watterson

I'm a misunderstood genius.

misunderstood-genius misunderstood genius

Genius is never understood in its own time. by Bill Watterson

Genius is never understood in its own time.

understood genius reality

I'm a misunderstood genius." "What's misunderstood?" "Nobody thin... by Bill Watterson

I'm a misunderstood genius." "What's misunderstood?" "Nobody thinks I'm a genius.

misunderstood genius thinking

... Geniuses have a little extra something. There's that little something that you know is a little different.

genius different art

The ultimate trick is to convince, persuade. Every single person out there is an idiot, but collectively they're a genius.

tricks idiot genius

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