Top 1200 Talent And Genius Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

Genius is nourished from within and without.

We are in the presence of a recruiting drive systematically and deliberately undertaken by American business, by American universities, and to a lesser extent, American government, often initiated by talent scouts specially sent over here to buy British brains and preempt them for service of the U.S.A. ... I look forward earnestly to the day when some reform of the American system of school education enables them to produce their own scientists so that, in an aimiable free trade of talent, there may be adequate interchange between our country and theirs, and not a one-way traffic.

Dandyism is a species of genius.

The essence of genius is to know what to overlook.

Silence is all the genius a fool has.

A man who is a genius and doesn't know it, probably isn't.

Genius is a stream bathed by the folly.

Genius is born-not paid

Bo Burnham is great, he's a genius.

The writer Richard Curtis is a genius.

It is characteristic of genius to be hopeful and aspiring.

Inspiration is the opportunity of genius.

Genius and taste don't go together.

Rare is he who will concede genius.

Genius is a capacity for taking trouble.

Genius is childhood recaptured.

Genius knows where the questions are hidden.

Genius does not excuse evil.

Ian Curtis was a young genius.

Sleeping is the height of genius

I do not consider myself a literal genius.

Common sense is as rare as genius.

Execution is the chariot of genius.

I never said I was a genius.

It's not my fault so much as my genius.

Donna Summer was such a genius.

I'm clearly not a major legal genius.

To understand an artist is to be a genius.

David Fincher is a genius.

Common sense is the genius of mankind.

Before I was a genius I was a drudge.

Everyone can act. Everyone can improvise. Anyone who wishes to can play in the theater and learn to become 'stage-worthy.' We learn through experience and experiencing, and no one teaches anyone anything. This is as true for the infant moving from kicking and crawling to walking as it is for the scientist with his equations. If the environment permits it, anyone can learn whatever he chooses to learn; and if the individual permits it, the environment will teach him everything it has to teach. 'Talent' or 'lack of talent' have little to do with it.

Common sense is the genius of humanity.

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

Genius is not a retainer to any emperor.

Boldness is a crucial element of genius.

Obsession is the wellspring of genius and madness.

Genius is mainly an affair of energy.

To see things in the seed, that is genius.

A sense of timing is the mark of a genius.

I think Joss Whedon is a genius.

I wouldn't be where I am without my dad. He's a genius.

Jim Henson was an absolute genius.

Man is a genius when he is dreaming.

Enthusiasm is the breath of genius.

Genius, when young, is divine.

I think 'Pan's Labyrinth' is genius.

Poverty is the step-mother of genius.

To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius.

The iPod is genius. I have 300.

Necessity is often the spur to genius.

Since when was genius found respectable?

Genius is individual, scenius is communal.

Taste is the next gift to genius.

Genius has no taste for weaving sand.

Genius is eternal patience.

Genius is full of trash.

Truth is the nursing mother of genius.

Genius is intuition on fire.

Difficulty is what wakes up the genius.