Top 100 Quotes About A Genius
#1. If I had an idea for a genius app, don't you think I would be getting it made immediately?
Amanda Crew
#2. Shakespeare was not a genius. He was, without the distant shadow of doubt, the most wonderful writer who ever breathed. But not a genius. No angels handed him his lines, no fairies proofread for him. Instead, he learnt techniques, he learnt tricks, and he learnt them well.
Mark Forsyth
#3. Questioning a genius with logic limits his imagination.
Vasilios Karpos
#4. Some very dull and sad people have genius though the world may not count it as such; a genius for love, or for patience, or for prayer, maybe. We know the divine spark is here and there in the world: who shall say under what manifestations, or humble disguise!
Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchie
#5. Rhage glanced over in the relative silence. "You are a genius." "Harold Ramis is." "I'm sorry?" "You ever see Stripes? My favorite movie of all time. I based this thing on Bill Murray's ride.
J.R. Ward
#6. When I edit, I'm not from the school of Hello, I'm a genius, so everybody shut up. I'm from the school of Let's play it once in front of an audience, and then I'll tell you where it is going.
Garry Marshall
#7. Lenny Breau was a genius - inspired and really loose. I loved how he used the guitar as an extension of his inner freedom, because, obviously, on the outside there were a lot of trainwrecks going on. But when you listen to him play, you hear what kind of guy he really is
Steve Vai
#8. It is impossible for a dove to catch a swallow, for a clever man to catch a genius.
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#9. Could consistently tell me no without making me angry. He was a genius of no.
Stephen King
#10. Organizations cannot make a genius out of an incompetent. On the other hand, disorganization can scarcely fail to result in efficiency.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#11. By the sense of mystery I understand the experience of certain places and times when one's whole nature seems to be in touch with a presence, a genius loci, a potency.
Richard Aldington
#12. Tried to find me an executive position, but no matter how smooth I talked they wouldn't listen to the fact that I was a genius.
Jim Croce
#13. My sister tested my IQ when she was getting her master's degree in school psychology and I tested as a genius in half the categories and nearly cognitively impaired in the other half.
Amy Schumer
#14. You are a genius beyond description, so start telling yourself that and become aware of who you really are.
Rhonda Byrne
#15. Man who invented the hamburger was smart; man who invented the cheeseburger was a genius.
Matthew McConaughey
#16. Yes, failure is part of the mix, he says, but it is a means, not an end. If you fail repeatedly, and in the same manner, you're an idiot, not a genius.
Eric Weiner
#17. No man can be a genius in slapshoes and a flat hat.
Buster Keaton
#18. Her mom had become some sort of a genius double agent since she hooked up with Richie. It was like she was keeping them all alive behind his back.
Rainbow Rowell
#20. You may think me crude, and probably I am crude, but I am not so crude as I was, for I am clever enough to see that the girl of nineteen who thought herself a genius was only an unusual girl writing her heart out.
Mary MacLane
#21. He who seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed word can strike dumb the loquacious, is a genius or a hero.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
#22. But I don't think Art's an Einstein - he likes tugging ears, biting people and burping too much to be a genius.
Darren Shan
#24. Everyone around me says, You're a genius! You're great! That's your voice! But I'm not sure if they're right.
Dave Chappelle
#25. In this world no one rules by love; if you are but amiable, you are no hero; to be powerful, you must be strong, and to have dominion you must have a genius for organizing.
John Henry Newman
#26. Ordinary people, she said, can see only a little bit. They can't change much or go any higher than they are, but you're a genius. You'll keep going up and up, and see more and more. And each step will reveal worlds you never even knew existed.
Daniel Keyes
#27. Art Tatum
he was a genius. And Einstein, not me.
Ray Charles
#28. Four was difficult and misunderstood, a genius before its time, it belonged to the planet of unexpected disaster.
Janet Fitch
#29. Despite Marc Andreessen's and Peter Thiel's belief that the outsize gains of tech billionaires are the result of a genius entrepreneur culture, inequality at this scale is a choice - the result of the laws and taxes that we as a society choose to establish.
Jonathan Taplin
#30. An idiot will do anything, no matter how stupid, because he is afraid of what everybody will think of him if he does nothing. A genius, on the other hand, is content to do nothing, no matter what people think, if he can't find anything worth doing.
Tom Upton
#31. Sometimes things are nothing on paper, but a genius director turns it into something amazing.
Douglas Booth
#32. Martin Freeman is a genius, he really is. He gives you every color of the rainbow in every take and it's wonderful just to play off of him and opposite him.
Lara Pulver
#33. The man whose action habitually bears the stamp of his mind is a genius, but the greatest genius is not always equal to himself, or he would cease to be human.
Honore De Balzac
#34. Franklin was a thin, pink person who was either a genius or, well, not one. Chances weren't.
Ben Marcus
#36. Pain jabbed Janco where the lower half of his right ear used to be. He rubbed the scar. "Now, I'm not a genius - "
"Got that right," Ari mumbled.
Maria V. Snyder
#37. Englishmen have a genius for looking uncomfortable. Their feelings are terribly mixed up with their personal appearance.
Sara Jeannette Duncan
#38. There are some good teachers out there, but the only one who is a genius at diagnosing my swing is my mom. She took up golf late, when she was 39, but in her younger days, she was an amazing athlete. She never read an instruction book or took lessons, but she has a remarkable eye for motion.
Boo Weekley
#39. The neoconservatives are a small circle, and they're all sort of holding hands as they develop their policy, and outsiders aren't allowed. If you agree with the guys on the inside, you're a genius. If you disagree, you're a traitor, a pariah, you're an apostate, and you're not allowed in.
Seymour Hersh
#40. Levana agreed to a cease-fire," said Wolf, "but we're waiting to hear if it's been implemented." "Also, Cress destroyed me in a game of Mountain Miners," said Iko. Thorne nodded, as if these two announcements carried the same weight. "She is a genius." Cress
Marissa Meyer
#41. He's no idiot, in fact he's a genius... and that's as far from an idiot as you can get without reaching madness.
Mike Judge
#42. For a genius to be a genius, he must have a selfless slave between himself and the world.
Dawn Powell
#43. Nice work," I said, alluding to her nails. "Maura, at The Hair Palace, does them. She's a genius with nails, and she'll bikini wax you till you're bald as a billiard ball.
Janet Evanovich
#44. 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
#46. You don't have to be a genius to find the hidden potential deep in your mind.
Ray Davies
#47. What an ornament and safeguard is humor! Far better than wit for a poet and writer. It is a genius itself, and so defends from the insanities.
Walter Scott
#48. [In 2011 on Steve Jobs] He was the most amazing person I have ever know. He was a genius. He was an innovator. He was the best client we ever had. He was my friend.
Lee Clow
#50. An exponent of love is immune to the criticism of a genius, for divine inspiration is superior to glib talk.
Stephan Attia
#51. Some write that I'm a genius, others say that I'm disrespectful towards their country ... If you remember in 1993 I squatted to tie my shoe during the French national anthem.
Hristo Stoichkov
#52. He was a genius - that is to say, a man who does superlatively and without obvious effort something that most people cannot do by the uttermost exertion of their abilities.
Robertson Davies
#53. The world would be a real mess if everybody was a genius. Somebody's got to keep watch, take care of business.
Haruki Murakami
#54. When friends and acquaintances are telling you that you are a genius, before you accept their opinion, take a moment to remember what you always thought of their opinions in the past.
Carl Icahn
#55. As far as my creative urge is concerned, I do sit down and write my own music ... I'll tell you a writer who I think is a genius: Ray Stevens. He comes up with some of the most fantastic novelty ideas. Dolly Parton also writes well. I like a lot of songs, a lot of writers.
Boudleaux Bryant
#56. Everyone is an artist and a genius, I think. If we don't choose to limit ourselves then we are totally accomplished.
Yoko Ono
#57. A genius is usually born on the way to relentless perfection with tireless persistence.
Debasish Mridha
#58. What Skrillex does with Ableton it's like being a little god. It's not just pushing loops - that's easy - but to do the effects he's a genius.
Giorgio Moroder
#59. Messi is a genius. He has everything. When I watch him, I see a player who is very, very, skilful, very clever and his left foot is like Diego Maradona's.
Franz Beckenbauer
#60. Every family should have at least three children. Then if one is a genius the other two can support him.
George Gibson Coote
#61. Maybe you've decided you're not a genius, that you're not brilliant, that you're not prosperous, that you're not wonderful, that you're not lovable. Well, you know what? You're both: you're unlovable and you are lovable. And they both need equal time.
Debbie Ford
#62. Eventually, meditation will make our mind calm, clear, and as concentrated as a laser which we can focus at will. This capacity of one-pointed attention is the essence of genius. When we have this mastery over attention in everything we do, we have a genius for life.
Eknath Easwaran
#63. Put a very clever man next to a genius, his brightness will immediately turn to dullness!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#64. The first thing the world does to a genius is to make him lose all his youth.
Clarence Day
#65. I was more of a genius in dreams than life. That is my tragedy.
Fernando Pessoa
#66. A country whose security depends on producing a genius in each generation sets itself a task no society has ever met.
Henry Kissinger
#67. Pain is definitely a genius in his own right. 'Thr33 Ringz' is definitely one of my top 10 albums. It's one of those albums you listen to front-to-back.
Travie McCoy
#68. If there ever was a misnomer, it is "exact science." Science has always been full of mistakes. The present day is no exception. And our mistakes are good mistakes; they require a genius to correct. Of course, we do not see our own mistakes.
Edward Teller
#69. The teacher who isn't a genius is made into a teacher of genius by the student of genius at this precise moment for a very precise time period, I thought. But
Thomas Bernhard
#70. Verdi was a genius. Sometimes in his operas, the strings in the orchestra, particularly the cellos, play in such a way that it is as if you are hearing the very heartbeat of Verdi.
Vincent B. "Chip" LoCoco
#71. A genius is a mentally ill person with an audience
Tim Minchin
#72. Make your service systems so strong that everyone looks like a genius.
Ron Kaufman
#73. Berlusconi is a genius in communication. Otherwise, he would never have become so rich.
Umberto Eco
#74. Any fool can make things complicated, it requires a genius to make things simple
Ernst F. Schumacher
#75. Again, right? But how will they know to save us? Hmm. Yopopa's supposedly a genius. That's probably
Sarah Mlynowski
#76. There is a fine line between a genius and an idiot and that line is possibility.
Ni Mao
#77. A genius masters the art of observation, and unites with the source of imagination to create advancements in the cause for human evolution.
T.F. Hodge
#78. One hundred idiots make idiotic plans and carry them out. All but one justly fail. The hundredth idiot, whose plan succeeded through pure luck, is immediately convinced he's a genius.
Iain M. Banks
#79. I must know, he thinks. It must be clear to me. There is a world which is closed to him, a world of shadings, gradations, nuances, and subtleties. He is a genius and yet he is too explicit. June slips between his fingers. You cannot posses without loving.
Anais Nin
#80. Of all the projects I've worked on, I've never worked with another director like Billy Friedkin. I think he's a genius.
Linda Blair
#81. I consider myself to be a genius who happens to play chess.
Bobby Fischer
#84. The real wonder is not that one man should be a genius, but that every man should not be.
Mary Hunter Austin
#85. Everyone said, 'Emil, you are a fool!'
But when I first won the European Championship, they said: 'Emil, you are a genius!'
Emil Zatopek
#86. A genius is a person who is more observant and has more patience.
Debasish Mridha
#87. Which are you? ... competen t, inspiring, passionate, obsessed, provocative, impatient, hungry, driven, adoring, inspired, an artist, a genius, someone who cares ... ?
With all these remarkable, powerful, important options available to each of us, why do so many of us default to competent?
Seth Godin
#89. YOU are a genius! ... and I am a genius because I married you.
Bill Cosby
#90. There's no such thing as a genius in politics, or at least I have never met one. There are only human beings, some better than others, who rise or fall on the challenges they meet.
Jean Chretien
#91. The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as 'Soho' poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of a genius and no talent.
Quentin Crisp
#92. Maybe you can make art out of unredeemed pain, but only if you're a genius
Dostoyevsky perhaps.
Larry McMurtry
#93. A genius. A criminal mastermind. A millionaire. And he is only twelve years old.
Eoin Colfer
#94. It's more important that you grow up to be a man," he said, "than to be a genius.
Mario Puzo
#95. Twelve for 23 ... It doesn't take a genius to see that's under 50 percent.
Dick Vitale
#97. The world is so average, it doesn't take much to be a genius, just do a little extra
Myles Munroe
#98. It is true that we cannot make a genius. We can only give to teach child the chance to fulfil his potential possibilities.
Maria Montessori
#99. Adolin was there in a heartbeat, attacking with more skill than any other man Dalinar had known. The lad was a genius with the Blade, an artist with paint of only one shade.
Brandon Sanderson
#100. In our society, to be obsessed with a vision about how to make a better automobile makes you a genius, but to be obsessed with a vision about the nature of reality makes you a nut.
Rodger Kamenetz
