Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Only engage, and then the mind grows heated. Begin, and then the work will be completed.
Critics are notoriously liberal with their use of the term 'genius'.
There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.
In books we never find anything but ourselves. Strangely enough, that always gives us great pleasure, and we say the author is a genius.
One type of concentration is immediate and complete, as it was with Mozart. The other is plodding and only completed in stages, as with Beethoven. Thus genius works in different ways to achieve its ends.
I've seen high and lows. When things go well that doesn't make me feel like some genius. Nor will I allow the next disappointment to make me feel like a complete failure.
I never thought of myself as being a genius. I don't know what genius is. I think a far better expression is a retriever, a lovely strong golden retriever that brings things back from the past, or retrieves things from our common blood memory
My Swaraj is to keep intact the genius of our civilization.
Genius is inconsiderate, self-relying, and, like unconscious beauty, without any intention to please.
So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person's genius is confined to a very few hours.
The deserving are not always blest. That peculiar attribute known as personality is as potent a factor as genius.
It often happens that the universal belief of one age, a belief from which no one was free or could be free without an extraordinary effort of genius or courage, becomes to a subsequent age, so palpable an absurdity, that the only difficulty is to imagine how such an idea could ever have appeared credible.
This was Shakespeare's form ; Who walk'd in every path of human life, Felt every passion ; and to all mankind Doth now, will ever, that experience yield Which his own genius only could acquire.
Aside from a cold appreciation of my own genius I felt that I was a modest man.
Common sense is as rare as genius.
a masterpiece doesn't so much transcend its time as perpetuate it; it keeps its moment alive.
A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.
I never said I was a genius. I never said I was a cornerstone. I've never said I'm a legend in my own time. You never heard me say nothing like that.
Genius is rare because the means of becoming one have not been available
I was called a dance prodigy since I was young. A prodigy is like a genius. But I'm not a genius. It's just that what I do a little bit better than others, and that happens to be dancing.