The charm, one might say the genius, of memory is that it is choosy, chancy and temperamental.
Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.
These are the times when a genius wants to live.
As far as me knowing if Frank was a genius - in those days, I thought Einstein was the only genius around.
The fact that the Constitution is sufficiently open-ended to infuriate all Americans almost equally is part of its enduring genius.
Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
Hold on; hold fast; hold out. Patience is genius.
The proportion of genius to the vulgar is like one to a million.
Human nature has a much greater genius for sameness than for originality.
You're a genius! And the proof is that both common people and intellectuals find your work completely incoherent.
Great minds tend toward banality. It is the noblest effort of individualism. But it implies a sort of modesty, which is so rare that it is scarcely found except in the greatest, or in beggars.
Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.
Confidence applied properly is the path of genius. You must always be in a state of confidence. And the way you sustain a state of confidence is by testing yourself. Difficult quagmires that may occur; there's always a test. You have to seek them out. You constantly have to test yourself to prepare for these quagmires. That's why I always put myself to the test.
Genius learns from nature, its own nature. Talent learns from art.
David Ortiz is a genius. He's incredible to watch. Over and over, he hits home runs that are simply transcendent.
Talent imitates, genius steals.
When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influences and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and his dying a cold horror.
What terrible harm Wagner did by interspersing his pages of genius with harmonic and modulatory outrages to which both young and old are gradually becoming accustomed and which have procreated d'Indy and Richard Strauss.
Before I was a genius I was a drudge.
Most humans know their own "reason" only in the sense that Hume defined it, as "a slave to the passions"-and by "passions" he meant not moral passions or the passions of transcendent genius, but only low appetites or base desires, which society and economy ultimately shape and spur on in us.