You don’t know what would have happened if I hadn’t pushed. Nobody knows. I did it the way I did it, and it worked. Above all, it worked.

If I had to put the recipe for genius into one sentence, that might be it: to have a disinterested obsession with something that matters.

An idea is like a rare bird which cannot be seen. What one sees is the trembling of the branch it has just left.

The fine line between genius and madness is a punch line. Duck, you idiot!

you never know your true genius untill you do what you love

We have never understood how birds manage to fly,Nor who the genius is who makes up dreams,Now how heaven and earth can appear in a poem.

James was sixteen, Cam seventeen, perhaps. She had looked round for someone who was not there, for Mrs. Ramsay, presumably. But there was only kind Mrs. Beckwith turning over her sketches under the lamp. Then,...

Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius.

Genius – To know without having learned; to draw just conclusions from unknown premises; to discern the soul of things.

Over intellect will make you a genius, over emotions will make you a lunatic.

But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But...

A genius. A criminal mastermind. A millionaire. And he is only twelve years old.

There are 2 kinds of artists, essentially: those who want to make something popular, and those who want to make something dignified. But then there is still that rare hybrid case, and perhaps by that...

David Fincher is a genius.

I need camouflage that works in such a way that when I wear it, you disappear.

My impression of love: I found her—lucky me. I found her—unlucky her. She’d probably agree with me, which would be a first.

Genius, as we tend to talk about it today, is some sort of mysterious and combustible substance that burns brightly and burns out. It’s the strange gift of poets and pop stars that allows them...

The real geniuses are the people who love life.

Did you just say youThink Mansfield Park is boring? Get out of my house.

A genius is one who can do anything except make a living.

I’m not exactly a maths genius – I’m really good at maths, maths was my favorite subject in school, but I wasn’t a genius.

There’s a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.

There’s a thin line between genius and bottom-barrel stupidness. I hover delicately on a tightrope between the two, wondering where I’ll land if I’ll ever fall.

If beauty isn’t genius it usually signals at least a high level of animal cunning.

The only guaranteed way to be a genius is to surround yourself with idiots.

If woman were brought into the field to fight political battles with men, why what would she be then? Instead of being man’s superior, as she is at the present time, she would be man’s...

Genius is play, and man’s capacity for achieving genius is infinite, and many may achieve genius only through play.

That’s the problem with any ‘simple truth’—it always takes a gaggle of complete idiots or a team of all-knowing geniuses to miss it.

The turmoil and dislocations confronting present-day society will not be solved until both the scientific and religious genius of the human race are fully utilized.

Real geniuses would like that what we think of ourselves is true.

We’re very familiar with the idea that some things are so complex they’re beyond our comprehension. This not only keeps us solving and experimenting but also distracted. Many things are really so simple we can’t...

There’s a difference between thinking you can’t be wrong and having no regrets. Wrongness is what occurs prior to empiricism, in hindsight a counterpart of revelation, and revelation is nothing to regret.

Until that moment she had not really noticed him. Now she felt as though she’d stubbed her toe on a rock, and looked down to find that it was part of a buried city.

Was he a great genius? Was he an eccentric? Was he someone who was trying to raise his consciousness in a way people can’t even imagine? He was on his own path and everybody gets...

Genius and science have burst the limits of space, and few observations, explained by just reasoning, have unveiled the mechanism of the universe. Would it not also be glorious for man to burst the limits...

Genius is immediate, but talent takes time.

A neurotic can perfectly well be a literary genius, but his greatest danger is always that he will not recognize when he is dull.

To know one’s self is wisdom, but not to know one’s neighbors is genius.

I think ‘Pan’s Labyrinth’ is genius.

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.

Clever man is a chicken; it can fly, but a little. Genius, on the other hand, is a migratory bird; it can fly at high altitudes until He disappears on the horizon!

People are always asking that a person should be perfect. Wayne is a genius as a player – he has everything – and he also has a temperament. But you can’t ask people to be...

If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn’t have been worth the Nobel Prize.

There is a saying: Genius is perseverance. While genius does not consist entirely of editing, without editing it’s pretty useless.

Genius is an African who dreams up snow.

Incredibly intelligent people always seem odd to those who are not as sharp.

When we allow the genius of simple nature to flow through us we become every genius who has ever lived.

Genius could be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way, or even to say a simple thing in a simpler way.

Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.

When your efforts run in the face of conventional wisdom and accepted mastery, persistence can look like madness. If you succeed in the end, this extreme originality reformulates into a new level of mastery, sometimes...