The simplest of women are wonderful liars who can extricate themselves from the most difficult dilemmas with a skill bordering on genius.
Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.
Surely, if knowledge is valuable, it can never be good policy in a country far wealthier than Tuscany, to allow a genius like Mr. Dalton's, to be employed in the drudgery of elementary instruction.
Passion is the genesis of genius.
Culture and tradition have to change little by little. So 'new' means a little twist, a marriage of Japanese technique with French ingredients. My technique. Indian food, Korean food; I put Italian mozzarella cheese with sashimi. I don't think 'new new new.' I'm not a genius. A little twist.
There are very few men of genius in advertising agencies. But we need all we can find. Almost without exception they are disagreeable. Don't destroy them. They lay golden eggs.
Creativity runs across many categories in life, from the arts-and-crafts project a mum or dad does with their kids, to the bestselling author's manuscript, to the designs of the hairdresser, to the creations of the computer programming genius.
Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.
There is nothing in the genius of America more precious today than the spirit of religious and political tolerance in its application to our own people.
Every one of you is a super genius if you just focus your common sense.
It's not every actor that can play a genius.
All genius is a conquering of chaos and mystery.
Many now born, by the time they are voters will compose part of a nation with a genius nowhere equaled, and with a vast territory upon which those energies and that genius can operate.
A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.
First have being in your mind. Make real in your mind then bring that being into reality. The genius is he who sees what is not yet and causes it to come to be.
His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.
Jim Carrey, a comic genius, has a harder time overcoming the public's desire for him to be funny simply because he's so good at it.
I wouldn't say jamie is an evil genius. I'm not sure he's evil and I'm not sure he's a genius.
The man who puts life into an idea is acclaimed a genius, because he does the right thing at the right time. Therein lies the difference between the genius and a commonplace man.
Great innovators like Thomas Alva Edison, Henry Ford, and Andrew Carnegie didn't rely on government. There was hardly any of it in those days. More recently, Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, and Larry Ellison used genius to put brand-new ideas into production.
When my nephew was 3 and 4, he would say the most genius things. He said, You're hammer macho with FBI dogs. I thought it was just one of those great lines.
Could we teach taste or genius by rules, they would be no longer taste and genius.
No one turns down a film with Woody; it's something everyone wants in their career as an important moment. He's such a comedic genius, without question, so I was thrilled.
Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.
One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.
Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius.
It is of no consequence whether a man of genius have learned either art or science before twenty-five: all that is necessary, or even desirable, is that his powers should be unfolded, his emulation roused, and his habits conducted into a right channel.
When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
I've made money, and I've been ripped off. I've had creative freedom, and I've been pressured to make hits. I have dealt with diva behavior from crazy musicians, and I have seen genius records by wonderful artists get completely ignored. I love music. I always will.
Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it.
When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
Genius is one of the many forms of insanity.
Only a genius can play a fool.
Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
The genius of the economic machine is in its ability to convert these indulgences into profitability. It converts desire into attention, a grip on our eyeballs and eardrums, which in turn can be marketed to advertisers.
David Shire and I have been happily married for 21 years! We have a 12-year-old son. David is a genius. He writes the most magnificent music and he is a devoted and loving husband and father. I am so blessed!