1,271 Quotes About Genius

I signed Jay-Z because he was on fire. I wasn't a genius. The record was great. I put it on The Nutty Professor soundtrack and we signed him.

Even a genius has his questions.

I'm probably the only guy who worked for Stengel before and after he was a genius.

He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. The dread of censure is the death of genius.

Nature is full of genius, full of divinity.

I confess that I have hitherto indulged very little in philanthropic enterprises.... While my townsmen and women are devoted in somany ways to the good of their fellows, I trust that one at least may be spared to other and less humane pursuits. You must have a genius for charity as well as for anything else. As for Doing-good, that is one of the professions which are full.

To see things in the seed is genius.

Buddy Rich is one of a kind; he's a genius, and that's all there is to it.

It should be possible to say that there really is such as thing as "genius" and that what it is, is precisely a surprising and unexpected movement away from collective patterns of behavior and received wisdom.