Depression is an illness. It is not a ticket to genius. It is not an interesting personality quirk. It is horrible and all-consuming and really hurts.
The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.
To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.
I can't change overnight into a serious literary author. You can't compare apples to oranges. William Faulkner was a great literary genius. I am not.
But I don't think I have any particular talent for prediction, because when you have three or four elements in hand, you don't have to be a genius to reach certain conclusions.
Taste is the feminine of genius.
I'm a genius. I'm like Prince.
Andy Warhol is the only genius I've ever known with an I.Q. of 60.
This was Shakespeare's form; who walked in every path of human life, felt every passion; and to all mankind doth now, will ever, that experience yield which his own genius only could acquire.
An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in the dark - that is critical genius.
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.
In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous.
I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.
My job is to pay attention to my children's genius and allow those leanings to lead them to their future.
This paradox of vision - the genius of youthful ignorance - is nothing new. Had Bill Gates not been in diapers in the early days of computer software, he might have understood that there could never be a market for consumer software - but the 19-year-old Gates went ahead and cofounded Microsoft.
To be complex does not mean to be fragmented. This is the paradox and the genius of our Canadian civilization.
Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.
Marriage requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy requires genius.
True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Genius is another word for magic, and the whole point of magic is that it is inexplicable.
Genius is talent set on fire by courage.
Many African people are smarter than me - kids who could have been better. I have no claim for genius.
Queen Victoria was a woman of peerless common sense; her common sense, which is a rare gift at any time, amounted to genius. She had been brought up by her mother with the utmost simplicity, and she retained it to the end, and conducted her public and private life alike by that infallible guide.
People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
Intelligence recognizes what has happened. Genius recognizes what will happen.
Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.
Genius not only diagnoses the situation but supplies the answers.
Ronald Reagan knew audiences. It was a key element of his political genius. One of the things at which brilliant politicians are better than mediocre ones is smelling new public concerns over the horizon before they are picked up by polls - before the public even knows to call them 'issues' at all.
Churchill was one of the few men I have met who even in the flesh give me the impression of genius. George Bernard Shaw is another. It is amusing to know that each thinks the other is overrated.
Every man of genius is considerably helped by being dead.
Genius is nothing but continued attention.
Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.
God and Nature first made us what we are, and then out of our own created genius we make ourselves what we want to be. Follow always that great law. Let the sky and God be our limit and Eternity our measurement.
My dad is very down to earth, and I view him as a creative genius, and I am very proud of that.
Martha Graham, along with George Balanchine, is one of the two commanding figures in 20th-century American dance. For those much younger than I am, her genius as a performer will have to be taken on faith - and on the always-suspect evidence of film. What will last, if things go well, is her genius as a choreographer, as a woman of the theater.
I always thought what made 'Beetlejuice' look so great was because it looked like some genius kid made it in his basement.
