Zitat des Tages über Genies / Geniuses:
I think Bill Finn's one of the geniuses of theatre, and James Lapine's one of the diamonds of my generation. The two together are a joy!
Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.
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.
Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
We don't genuinely need more literary geniuses. One can only read so many books in a lifetime.
I wouldn't use the word 'scared' for my role as Hitchcock, but it was my most insecure. Taking on such a formidable, giant personality such as Hitchcock; he was one of the great geniuses of world cinema. Sheer genius.
Most geniuses are weird.
Australians are geniuses with a good sense of humour.
But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
I think the American system is incredibly well developed. I think the founding fathers were geniuses.
I've played three presidents, three saints and two geniuses - and that's probably enough for any man.
I realized what you could do in motion pictures by surrounding yourself with geniuses.
My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine - everybody drinks water.
The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages over the latter, even where geniuses are equal.
Some Italians are geniuses, but you have to find a balance.
From the naturalistic point of view, all men are equal. There are only two exceptions to this rule of naturalistic equality: geniuses and idiots.
A few of the sublimest geniuses of Rome and Athens had some faint discoveries of the spiritual nature of the human soul, and formed some probable conjectures, that man was designed for a future state of existence.
We can all be geniuses because one definition of genius is the infinite capacity for taking pains.
It's not that complicated. If you hear something and it makes you want to hear it again, that's the ticket. You have to be lucky enough to find geniuses, welcome them and get out of their way.
My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.
There are some musicians who are talented and see themselves as some kind of natural geniuses or something because of a certain amount of natural ability. But that is often rarely the case over the long term.
No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under a leadership composed of average human beings.
Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.
A particularly fine head on a man usually means that he is stupid; particularly deep philosophers are usually shallow thinkers; in literature, talents not much above the average are usually regarded by their contemporaries as geniuses.
Alan Turing is so important to me and to the world, and his story is so important to be told, so it was a big thing to take up, and I was a little petrified. Like, who am I to write the Alan Turing story? He's one of the great geniuses of the 20th century - who was horribly persecuted for being gay - and I'm a kid from Chicago.
Unfortunately, goodness and honor are rather the exception than the rule among exceptional men, not to speak of geniuses.
You can't hang around geniuses forever because they end up taking everything you've got. That's why they're the genius and you're not.
Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - either by themselves or by others.
Karl Lagerfeld and Tom Ford are both geniuses.
I know people I feel are extremely talented, but I don't know that I've ever heard any geniuses.
The art music of the West has developed through out its history by means of individual geniuses, and out of the soil supporting them; non-Western musicians were born, and grew like the grasses of the field.
The major work of the world is not done by geniuses. It is done by ordinary people, with balance in their lives, who have learned to work in an extraordinary manner.
Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there.
Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.
Geniuses always think it's easier than we make it out to be.
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.
