Airbnb's genius was moving into cities and recognizing that millennials would want to go and maybe spend a vacation or visit some friends in an urban center.
Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old - old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.
Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.
Every true genius is bound to be naive.
If 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.
To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent. To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius.
Genius must be born, and never can be taught.
Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.
I was fortunate to be able to do two movies with Harold Ramis. He was the kindest of any director with whom I worked. Harold was a genius. On top of his talent, he could do the 'New York Times' crossword puzzle faster than anyone! I am lucky to have known him as well as I did. I will miss him.
Talent is a faculty that is highly developed, but genius commands all the faculties.
When you work in the United States Senate, and you are around people of all different ideas and beliefs, you realize that what our Founding Fathers did that was so genius, is that they made the Senate the place where compromises are supposed to happen because of the makeup of the Senate.
There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
Every man is a potential genius until he does something.
It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists.
The free sharing and teaching of open source is incompatible with the notion of the solitary genius.
Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
David Ortiz is a genius. He's incredible to watch. Over and over, he hits home runs that are simply transcendent.
Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.
It is the union of independence and dependence of these branches - legislative, executive and judicial - and of the governmental functions possessed by each of them, that constitutes the marvellous genius of this unrivalled document.
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.
The only way you can get good, unless you're a genius, is to copy. That's the best thing. Just steal.
Very first thing in the morning, I spew some rough genius directly on to the laptop. Then I have coffee and rewrite for three hours.
The only good political movement I've seen lately was Occupy Wall Street. They had no leaders, which was genius. But unfortunately it always ends up with some hippy playing a flute.
First, make yourself a reputation for being a creative genius. Second, surround yourself with partners who are better than you are. Third, leave them to go get on with it.
It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.
Of all the projects I've worked on, I've never worked with another director like Billy Friedkin. I think he's a genius.
There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade, before it has done so itself.
God gives talent. Work transforms talent into genius.
The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category.
There's a fine line between genius and insanity, as we all know.
I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.
If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.
Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.
It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for the rich fertility of American political invention.
