Attention is the stuff that memory is made of, and memory is accumulated genius
James Russell LowellIn men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for honour, command, power, and glory.
CiceroConceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long; even if it is, the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one, and the great charm of all power is modesty.
Louisa May AlcottTalent is what you possess; genius is what possesses you.
Malcolm CowleyIf we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators.
William HazlittTalent isn't genius, and no amount of energy can make it so. I want to be great, or nothing. I won't be a commonplace dauber, so I don't intend to try any more.
Louisa May AlcottCreative people must entertain lots of silly ideas in order to receive the occasional strokes of genius.
Marshall CookLiam is a songwriting genius. His songs make me cry 'cause they are better than mine.
Noel GallagherI'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.
R Buckminster FullerThe divine egoism that is genius.
Mary WebbThere was never a genius without a tincture of madness.
AristotleShort of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.
Charles Peguy'I'm equal part genius, equal part buffoon.'
Noel GallagherI rather like my reputation, actually, that of a spoiled genius from the Welsh gutter, a drunk, a womanizer; it's rather an attractive image.
Richard BurtonThe principle mark of a genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers
Arthur KoestlerThere's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
Oscar LevantA genius can never expect to have a good time anywhere, if he is a genuine article, but America is about the last place in which life will be endurable at all for an inspired writer of any kind.
Samuel ButlerFew people can see genius in someone who has offended them
Robertson DaviesGenius does what it must, and Talent does what it can. (Last words of a Sensitive Second-Rate Poet)
Owen MeredithThe principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur KoestlerAre you still hanging around? [to the ultra-pretentious Nick Robinson, BBC correspondent who speaks each word that comes out of his lips as though it is a work of sheer genius]
George W BushThe difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.
Albert EinsteinPeople of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel.
William HazlittAny fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.
J G BallardA genius can't be forced; nor can you make an ape an alderman.
George Bernard ShawThe word 'genius' isn't applicable in football. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.
Jon TheismanThe especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency
Margaret FullerI'm all in favour of the democratic principle that one idiot is as good as one genius, but I draw the line when someone takes the next step and concludes that two idiots are better than one genius.
Leo SzilardEvil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.
Denis DiderotIndulge, and to thy genius freely give,
For not to live at ease is not to live
PersiusIf I've met three geniuses in my life, Marlon [Brando] would have to be top of the list.
Francis Ford CoppolaThere's no doubt he was in his own way a comic genius. He had this wonderful warmth and humour that came right through the screen and just embraced you. [on Ronnie Barker]
Nicholas ParsonsMediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
Sir Arthur Conan DoyleEccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character had abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and courage which it contained.
John Stuart MillIt takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.
Gertrude SteinMen of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which you and I size people up.
Max BeerbohmNo communication or gift can exhaust genius or impoverish charity
Johann Lavater There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.
Walt WhitmanGenius 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.
Hannah MoreA man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
James JoyceGenius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience.
George-Louis De BuffonFirst and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.
Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheLove is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.
Charles PeguyI said, 'Look, I don't care how, who, what, where, when. Sacha Baron Cohen is a genius and I want to be a part of this project.'
Rhona MitriFirst, make yourself a reputation for being a creative genius. Second, surround yourself with partners who are better than you are. Third, leave them go get on with it.
David OgilvyThe amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.
John Stuart MillNobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.
Joe Theismann The elements are cricket's presiding geniuses.
Neville CardusNeither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
Wolfgang Amadeus MozartThe genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.
Walter Lippmann
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