I know of no genius but the genius of hard work.
. . . men of highest genius have been too frequently of extremely shaky morals.
Does research get in the way of the story? It certainly can. Anything can, given that as writers we're all geniuses at procrastination. But mostly research teaches me about the world. Which often shows me the way, in terms of the story.
The genius of democracies is seen not only in the great number of new words introduced but even more in the new ideas they express.
I went up on stage, and said, "Why did the chicken cross the road? To check out the chicks. " I was a genius at 10. Try telling that at 21, and you look hacky and stupid. That was the only joke I've ever told. Everything since has been character voices, doing impressions or just telling stories.
Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization.
Mediocrity has no greater consolation than in the thought that genius is not immortal.
Genius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering pot and the pruning knife.
To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius.
If you, my fellow copywriters or art directors, want to win the award, devote your genius to making the cash register ring.
People sometimes attribute my success to my genius; all the genius I know anything about is hard work.
Few of the great tragedies of history were created by the village idiot, and many by the village genius.
Woody Allen is a genius. His films are wonderful. He's poetic, but he's also a critic. He artfully steps back from a social setting and criticizes it without - I suspect - without letting himself be vulnerable to it.
Instead of labeling and discriminating against one or the other, we need to learn to blend our gifts and complement our geniuses.
Genius worship is the inevitable sign of an uncreative age.
I was obsessed with Eminem when I was younger. When he first came out I was about 12 and fanatical about his 'Slim Shady' CD. I think he's a genius.
If a piece of genius comes, it comes, and it if doesn't, it doesn't.
I am certainly of opinion that genius can be acquired, or, in the alternative, that it is an almost universal possession.
Almost all the noblest things that have been achieved in the world, have been achieved by poor men; poor scholars, poor professional men, poor artisans and artists, poor philosophers, poets, and men of genius.
The greatest form of genius is that which isn’t noticed.