Dali is like a man who hesitates between talent and genius, or, as one might once have said, between vice and virtue.
Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.
The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.
Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes.
When the idea of 'Chopped' surfaced, it was originally meant to be taped at some guy's mansion with him and his crazy Chihuahua. A stuffy fellow in a tuxedo was to host, and the losing chef's dish was then fed to the dog! I am not kidding, I saw it! I think it is genius! Twisted, but genius!
I make no claim to being a business genius. You can make so much money in this business that it loses its value.
Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy.
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.
Genius is the very eye of intellect and the wing of thought; it is always in advance of its time, and is the pioneer for the generation which it precedes.
What I really think about Banksy is I think he's a genius; he's a great artist, and I like his stuff. But he's got to accept it if, from time to time, someone will need to paint over his work.
Poesy must not be drawn by the ears: it must be gently led, or rather, it must lead, which was partly the cause that made the ancient learned affirm it was a divine, and no human skill, since all other knowledges lie ready for any that have strength of wit; a poet no industry can make, if his own genius be not carried into it.
A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius.
The cult of individuality and personality, which promotes painters and poets only to promote itself, is really a business. The greater the 'genius' of the personage, the greater the profit.
A host is like a general: calamities often reveal his genius.
Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but, less by assimilation than by friction.
There is in the DNA of the Italians a bit of madness, which in the overwhelming majority of cases is positive. It is genius. It is talent. It's the masterpieces of art. It's the food, fashion, everything that makes Italy great in the world.
Men 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.
How are men to be secured in any rights without instruction; how to be secured in the equal exercise of those rights without equality of instruction? By instruction understand me to mean knowledge - just knowledge; not talent, not genius, not inventive mental powers.
There is no genius in life like the genius of energy and industry.
Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius.
In real estate, you make 10% of your money because you're a genius and 90% because you catch a great wave.
Genius is independent of situation.
I'm not a genius. I'm just a hard-working guy.
Kevin Gates is probably the smartest person I've ever worked with. He's cool, he's crazy, but he's genius.
Doorman - a genius who can open the door of your car with one hand, help you in with the other, and still have one left for the tip.
I believe that Ryan Murphy is a genius. His instincts remind me of Andy Warhol. I recently went to the Warhol museum in Pittsburgh, and you can see a lot of echoes of Andy in Ryan's work. Like Andy, Ryan's finger is so on the pulse of culture that he's ahead of culture. Their aesthetic and their vision of the world are very similar.
Man is a genius when he is dreaming.
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.
Genius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has been pried from its hands and the blood has been cleaned up.
You don't have to be a political genius to sniff the smell of blood in the water.
What basically happens is that when a company becomes great, and I'm being a bit rude here, people think they're some kind of genius. So now we can move into all sorts of other businesses because the net bottom line is, it's because we're just geniuses. They become overconfident and expand too far.
Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.
The genius of the American system is that through freedom we have created extraordinary results from plain old ordinary people.
I have never been an innovator, a creative genius.
The burning of an author's books, imprisonment for opinion's sake, has always been the tribute that an ignorant age pays to the genius of its time.
