Geniuses Quotes (page 6)

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• music
• words
• genius

Genius is a word too often tossed around in musical circles. Stanley Jordan

• training
• genius
• reaction

Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one's training. Bernard Berenson

• age
• worship
• genius

Genius worship is the inevitable sign of an uncreative age. Clive Bell

• childhood
• genius
• will

Genius is childhood recalled at will. Charles Baudelaire

• genius
• little
• faculties

Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way. William James

• inspirational
• inspiration
• inspired

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. Thomas Edison

• fire
• genius
• initial

Genius is initiative on fire. Holbrook Jackson

• dream
• snow
• african

Genius is an African who dreams up snow. Vladimir Nabokov

• genius
• wanted
• luckiest

Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do. W. H. Auden

• genius
• thing
• sees

Genius is the talent for seeing things straight. Maude Adams

• genius
• child
• sorrows

Genius is sorrow's child. John Adams

• thinking
• saying
• moments

We stood silent. After a moment I said, "Real Geniuses never think they're geniuses."Who says?"Me."Because why?"Because genius is nine-tenths perspiration. Haven't you ever heard that? As soon as you think you're a genius, you slack off. You think everything you do is so great and everything. Jeffrey Eugenides

• genius
• words
• chance

But what is chance? What is genius? The words chance and genius do not denote any really existing thing and therefore cannot be defined. Those words only denote a certain stage of understanding of phenomena. I do not know why a certain event occurs; I think that I cannot know it; so I do not try to know it and I talk about chance. I see a force producing effects beyond the scope of ordinary human agencies; I do not understand why this occurs and I talk of genius. To a heard of rams, that... Leo Tolstoy

• evening
• inspired
• common

I never worried about the genius: genius takes care of the genius in a man. My concern was always for the nobody, the man who is lost in the shuffle, the man who is so common, so ordinary, that his presence is not even noticed. One genius does not inspire another. Henry Miller

• short
• true
• saying

Oh, I'm not a true genius. I'm a near genius. I would say I'm a short genius. I'd rather be tall and normal than a short genius. Mel Brooks