Men of genius sometimes accomplish most when they work the least for they are thinking out inventions and forming in their minds the perfect idea that they subsequently express with their hands.
It will work. I am a marketing genius.
What moves those of genius what inspires their work is not new ideas but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough.
People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it they work in it because they excel.
It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius especially ambitious young men and women.
The simplest of women are wonderful liars who can extricate themselves from the most difficult dilemmas with a skill bordering on genius.
To know one's self is wisdom but not to know one's neighbors is genius.
Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning but wisdom is like the sun.
Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance.
Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it.
All of us who are members of the Germanic peoples can be happy and thankful that once in thousands of years fate has given us from among the Germanic peoples such a genius a leader our Fuehrer Adolf Hitler and you should be happy to be allowed to work with us.
I am thankful that geniuses and artists and good people no matter how hard it is will eventually be recognized. I am doubly thankful that also goes for idiots.
Then I heard this genius teacher Stella Adler - I recommend you read anything you might find about her and if you have anyone interested in theatre you get them one of her books.
We should like to have some towering geniuses to reveal us to ourselves in colour and fire but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types.
Men of genius are often dull and inert in society as the blazing meteor when it descends to earth is only a stone.
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.
Science is not a heartless pursuit of objective information. It is a creative human activity its geniuses acting more as artists than as information processors.
People think that computer science is the art of geniuses but the actual reality is the opposite just many people doing things that build on eachother like a wall of mini stones.
The capacity of the female mind for studies of the highest order cannot be doubted having been sufficiently illustrated by its works of genius of erudition and of science.
The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.
They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates.
What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road empirically following one's nose taking shortcuts.
Anyone who can do the splits and come back up on the backbeat as James Brown and Prince can has my eternal respect. Prince who is a genius of the highest order can come back up while singing and playing the guitar.
Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace it may serve to cast a gleam of light on those that are without while the inhabitant sits in darkness.