Someday a political genius will come along and make the Senate work.
Rules and models destroy genius and art.
Industry is a better horse to ride than genius.
Thirty, 40 years ago, more than that now, even, the cook was certainly at the bottom of the social scale. And any mother would've wanted their child to marry a doctor, a lawyer, an architect, not a cook. Now, we are genius, it's different.
I like the idea of taking a true classic written by a true genius and destroying it essentially! I like the idea of bringing it down to earth a bit - and even a bit lower than that.
Men of genius sometimes accomplish most when they work the least, for they are thinking out inventions and forming in their minds the perfect idea that they subsequently express with their hands.
If you stick with a vision, it might not all work, but some of it will be absolute genius. To me, 15 minutes worth of absolute genius in a film is so much better than two hours of mediocrity. I would rather pay to see something different like that.
The definition of genius, really, should be that that person can do what the rest of us have to learn how to do.
Genius - to know without having learned; to draw just conclusions from unknown premises; to discern the soul of things.
No one can arrive from being talented alone, work transforms talent into genius.
The guy who invented the first wheel was an idiot. The guy who invented the other three, he was a genius.
The genius idea of industrialism was the concept of the Model T: In exchange for something cheap and well-made, we'd forgo unique, lovely design.
T Bone is genius. The way they've recorded my voice and the instrumentation to these songs is really quite extraordinary.
Take the complications, rules, shoulds, musts, have tos, and so on out of your life. By uncomplicating your life and removing the trivial pursuits that occupy so much of it, you open a channel for the genius within you to emerge.
The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.
Yesterday I was thinking about the whole idea of genius and creative people, and the notion that if you create some magical art, somehow that exempts you from having to pay attention to the small things.
Talent does whatever it wants to do. Genius does only what it can.
The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.
Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius.
The only folk I can judge are people like Woody Allen who I think is a genius, largely because I think he has beaten the system. He has his own company, and his films are all his own ideas. It's his direction, and so it comes out the way he imagined it.
Genius can probably run on ahead and seek out new ways. But the good artists who follow after genius - and I count myself among these - have to restore the lost connection once more.
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.
There are so many remarkable playwrights working right now, that I see everything I can. Annie Baker is a genius, I'll see anything she writes. The same for Lynn Nottage, Cynthia Hopkins, and Lisa D'Amour. Anything they've got going on, I'll go see.
Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.
I actually think that I'm a genius; not to toot my own horn or anything, but I think I'm a musical genius.
I'm really into 'Veep.' I think that the showrunner Armando Iannucci is a genius.
He who seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed word can strike dumb the loquacious, is a genius or a hero.
The genius of our country is improvisation, and jazz reflects that. It's our great contribution to the arts.
Buddy Rich is one of a kind; he's a genius, and that's all there is to it.
Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.
The basic idea of 'The Venture Brothers' was taking the world of 'Jonny Quest' and jumping back into 30 years later, seeing how someone who grew up like Jonny - with that kind of space race enthusiasm and disregard for other cultures - would turn out. Dr. Venture is a boy genius who didn't grow up to be what he should have been.
My own experience is that a certain kind of genius among students is best brought out in bed.
To see things in the seed, that is genius.
I'm a big fan of '30 Rock,' which I think is the most genius show on television.
But at the time when he wrote, Englishmen, with the rarest exceptions, wrote only in French or Latin; and when they began to write in English, a man of genius, to interpret and improve on him, was not found for a long time.
I think eyebrow gel is genius.
