Genius Quotes

Everything I do, I feel is genius. Whether it is or it isn't.

To appreciate and use correctly a valuable maxim requires a genius; a vital appropriating exercise of mind closely allied to that which first created it.

In the startup world, you're either a genius or an idiot. You're never just an ordinary guy trying to get through the day.

There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.

No one can resist the idea of a crippled genius.

The genius of our institutions is democratic - baseball is a democratic game.

I've started to think that maybe I wouldn't mind passing my demented genius on to some small thing who can set fire and breathe profanity.

You don't have to be a genius or a visionary or even a college graduate to be successful. You just need a framework and a dream.

Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.

Anybody can put things together that belong together. to put things together that don't go together, and make it work, that takes genius like Mozart's. Yet he is presented in the play Amadeus as a kind of silly boy whom the gods loved.

I believe that Ryan Murphy is a genius. His instincts remind me of Andy Warhol. I recently went to the Warhol museum in Pittsburgh, and you can see a lot of echoes of Andy in Ryan's work. Like Andy, Ryan's finger is so on the pulse of culture that he's ahead of culture. Their aesthetic and their vision of the world are very similar.

Genius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has been pried from its hands and the blood has been cleaned up.

In some parts of life, like mathematics and science, yeah, I was a genius. I would top all the top scores you could ever measure it by.

It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for the rich fertility of American political invention.

No one turns down a film with Woody; it's something everyone wants in their career as an important moment. He's such a comedic genius, without question, so I was thrilled.

I think there have to be Bachs and Beethovens. We may have - there are so many more people. Musical training is available to so many more, but it may be that we've hit a right wall in terms of accessible styles and since we demand innovation as a criterion of genius, there may not be more innovative styles to be found.

The world is not so much in need of new thoughts as that when thought grows old and worn with usage it should, like current coin, be called in, and, from the mint of genius, reissued fresh and new.

Unless one is a genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible.

It is always well to get near to men of genius.

David Ortiz is a genius. He's incredible to watch. Over and over, he hits home runs that are simply transcendent.

The genius of impeachment lay in the fact that it could punish the man without punishing the office.

David Shire and I have been happily married for 21 years! We have a 12-year-old son. David is a genius. He writes the most magnificent music and he is a devoted and loving husband and father. I am so blessed!

There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade, before it has done so itself.

In sheer genius Pascal ranks among the very greatest writers who have lived upon this earth. And his genius was not simply artistic; it displayed itself no less in his character and in the quality of his thought.

The genius of the Spanish people is exquisitely subtle, without being at all acute; hence there is so much humour and so little wit in their literature.

Oh, I'm not a true genius. I'm a near genius. I would say I'm a short genius. I'd rather be tall and normal than a short genius.

Every man of genius is considerably helped by being dead.

I do not consider myself a literal genius.

Neatness begets order; but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship.

And we owe science to the combined energies of individual men of genius, rather than to any tendency to progress inherent in civilization.