Zitat des Tages über Genius:
Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius.
Governmental aid is a drawback rather than an assistance, as, although it may facilitate in the routine of artistic production, it is an impediment to the development of true artistic genius.
Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.
People hate me because I am a multifaceted, talented, wealthy, internationally famous genius.
Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Genius, like humanity, rusts for want of use.
One of the big surprises for me about Einstein was... that he wasn't this big introvert; he was more like a novelist or a painter. It's amazing how close society came to not benefiting from Albert Einstein's genius.
Because you are a great lord, you believe yourself to be a great genius. You took the trouble to be born, but no more.
This homage has been rendered not to me - for the Polish soil is fertile and does not lack better writers than me - but to the Polish achievement, the Polish genius.
Genius of a kind has always been with me; an empty heart that has taken on a certain wooden quality; an excellent, strong woman's body and a pitiably starved soul.
The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency.
It will work. I am a marketing genius.
My first husband, John Barry, was a composer. I couldn't believe that this sophisticated, talented genius chose me and not any of the other girls. I was so flattered, so excited, so in love with him. Of course, my parents were horrified, as he'd been married once and had a daughter with the au pair girl.
My brother's my best friend, without a doubt. Me and my big sister get along so well. She moved to East London, though, so points off, but she's wicked. And then my little sister is a little genius. She's super talented and such a great person, always been far more mature and cool than me.
Susceptibility to the highest forces is the highest genius.
Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.
To understand Europe, you have to be a genius - or French.
Talent is what you possess; genius is what possesses you.
I wouldn't be where I am without my dad. He's a genius.
I think you're all mad. But that's part and parcel of being an artistic genius, isn't it?
The person who figures out how to harness the collective genius of his or her organization is going to blow the competition away.
Alber Elbaz is just a genius. He'll be in a dinner jacket and he doesn't care what time of day it is: I love that about him. He just marches to the beat of his own drum.
I look at bands like the Beach Boys, Hall & Oates and Blur, and those are the bands I want to be in company with because their songwriting is intelligent, and yet you don't need to be a musical genius to pick it up.
My ultimate is Peter Sellers - his ability to go broad and somehow humanize that and be hilarious at the same time. He was just relatable, real at the same time as insane. I find Ricky Gervais absolutely hilarious. Steve Martin is another hero of mine - he's a genius.
Martin Freeman is a genius, he really is. He gives you every color of the rainbow in every take and it's wonderful just to play off of him and opposite him.
Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.
There's a fine line between what would characterize you as a troglodyte and what would characterize you as a brilliant, avant-garde, forward-thinking genius. There's some middle ground.
Genius is not a possession of the limited few, but exists in some degree in everyone. Where there is natural growth, a full and free play of faculties, genius will manifest itself.
The genius of any slave system is found in the dynamics which isolate slaves from each other, obscure the reality of a common condition, and make united rebellion against the oppressor inconceivable.
A neurotic can perfectly well be a literary genius, but his greatest danger is always that he will not recognize when he is dull.
When I edit, I'm not from the school of Hello, I'm a genius, so everybody shut up. I'm from the school of Let's play it once in front of an audience, and then I'll tell you where it is going.
Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.
Olivier was another case of a genius, who couldn't understand why anybody would have any trouble doing this, because for him it came so easily.
Charlie Parker and Art Tatum to me were genius, and I'm right below that. I did, in my own way, do something different on the instrument, and that's the way I'd like to be remembered.
The capacity of the female mind for studies of the highest order cannot be doubted, having been sufficiently illustrated by its works of genius, of erudition, and of science.