Top 43 It Takes Genius Quotes
#1. Any damn fool can put on a deal, but it takes genius, faith and perseverance to create a brand.
David Ogilvy
#2. Any fool can kill. It takes genius to create.
Rachel Caine
#3. Anyone can make them cry, but it takes a genius to make them laugh.
Charlie Chaplin
#4. It takes a long time to make the perfect playlist. I don't believe in that little Genius button they have on iTunes. That's cheating.
J.J. Howard
#5. Folks can't seem to realize that it isn't a smooth talker we need in there but a steady man, a man with judgement. Any medicine-show man can spout words, if they are written for him. It takes no genius to sound well. To act right and at the right time is something else again.
Louis L'Amour
#6. Better is possible. It does not take genius. It takes diligence. It takes moral clarity. It takes ingenuity. And above all, it takes a willingness to try.
Atul Gawande
#7. I love cooking. My Italian mother is a genius cook, and I picked that up from her. I make my own sauce, which takes four hours, from a recipe that's been refined over many years. I won't tell anybody what it is.
Josh Fox
#8. It is perseverance, and not genius that takes a man to the top. Rome is full of unrecognized geniuses. Only perseverance enables you to move forward in the world.
Robert Harris
#9. It takes a man of genius to travel in his own country, in his native village; to make any progress between his door and his gate.
Henry David Thoreau
#10. intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex ... It takes a touch of genius and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. - Albert Einstein Autobiographical Notes
Joel Wallach
#11. You've got to admit it takes real genius to start out with nothing and build what she has so brilliantly built. Only
Barbara Taylor Bradford
#12. Any fool can make history, but it takes a genius to write it.
Oscar Wilde
#13. If bearing a reputation as a weirdo is all it takes to be a genius, I'm a shoo-in. Come to think of it, half the people I know are geniuses - the other half, peculiarly enough, idiots.
Todd Rundgren
#14. Any fool can write a bad advertisement, but it takes a genius to keep his hands off a good one.
David Ogilvy
#15. An ordinary mistake is one that leads to a dead end, while a profound mistake is one that leads to progress. Anyone can make an ordinary mistake, but it takes a genius to make a profound mistake.
Frank Wilczek
#16. Any media-brainwashed automaton can summon the insipid courage to peer into the horrifying abyss. But it takes a freaking genius with a fearless imagination to peer into the maw of happiness.
Rob Brezsny
#17. A tragedy is a tragedy, and at the bottom, all tragedies are stupid. Give me a choice and I'll take A Midsummer Night's Dream over Hamlet every time. Any fool with steady hands and a working set of lungs can build up a house of cards and then blow it down, but it takes a genius to make people laugh.
Stephen King
#18. A genius is someone who takes a complex thing and makes it look simple. An academic does the opposite.
Robert Fanney
#19. I have to hold a meeting with the rising generation every evening, and that takes time. Henry can say, 'Twinkle, twinkle,' all himself, and Edward can repeat it after his father! Giants of genius! Paragons of erudition!
Adoniram Judson
#20. Any darn fool can make something complex; it takes a genius to make something simple.
Pete Seeger
#21. Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.
J.G. Ballard
#22. Unix is simple and coherent, but it takes a genius (or at any rate, a programmer) to understand and appreciate the simplicity..
Dennis Ritchie
#23. 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.
Bill Hader
#25. It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.
Louisa May Alcott
#27. That's the problem with any 'simple truth' - it always takes a gaggle of complete idiots or a team of all-knowing geniuses to miss it.
Ali Sheikh
#28. It takes a village to raise a child, they say, and it takes a community to raise a genius, no matter how singular the individual.
Orna Ross
#29. Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex ... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
E.F. Schumacher
#30. 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.
Lukas Foss
#31. It takes application, a fine sense of value, and a powerful community-spirit for a people to have serious leisure, and this has not been the genius of the Americans.
Paul Goodman
#32. Any fool can make something complicated. It takes a genius to make it simple.
Woody Guthrie
#33. Any idiot can be complicated. It takes a genius to be simple.
Pete Seeger
#34. Anyone can piss in a glass and call it brandy, it takes a real genius to name the vintage.
Andi James Chamberlain
#35. Trust that you have everything you need right now to be successful financially. All it takes to bring out your natural, God-given gifts is your desire, determination, and a deep faith that you have a genius and a gift that is unique.
Robert T. Kiyosaki
#36. One must indeed be ignorant of the methods of genius to suppose that it allows itself to be cramped by forms. Forms are for mediocrity, and it is fortunate that mediocrity can act only according to routine. Ability takes its flight unhindered.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#37. It takes more than genius to keep me reading a book.
E.B. White
#38. There's been so many different types of musicals, and it's a funny genre because there's a fine line between clever and stupid. It really takes a genius to know how to do it.
Melissa Etheridge
#39. It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much, doing nothing, really doing nothing.
Gertrude Stein
#40. Any intelligent fool can invent further complications, but it takes a genius to retain, or recapture, simplicity.
E.F. Schumacher
#41. What most readers do not realize is that it takes a particular genius to write funny, to satirize.
F. Sionil Jose
#42. So stretch! Reach for it. Like falling down stairs, where your inner-genius takes over and saves you - your instincts are ready to serve you.
Bryant McGill
#43. It takes no genius to observe that a one-man band never gets very big
Charles Garfield
