Ailes built a Kingdom of Yes. That was his genius. He understood the id of many white conservatives - their sense of constant persecution and victimization; and their existential fears of an America whose racial makeup, sexual mores and gender roles were careening in the opposite direction of the country of their childhood.
Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
The poets' scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death.
What basically happens is that when a company becomes great, and I'm being a bit rude here, people think they're some kind of genius. So now we can move into all sorts of other businesses because the net bottom line is, it's because we're just geniuses. They become overconfident and expand too far.
I think it gets overused and tossed around in ways that aren't true. Every impressive achievement is not genius.
I think 'genius' is an overused word.
Genius is an overused word. The world has known only about a half dozen geniuses. I got only fairly near.
Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.
I think you're all mad. But that's part and parcel of being an artistic genius, isn't it?
For all his tactical genius Guardiola is also a manager who can be patient and loyal, who backs players to come out of bad patches and hit golden patches.
The eye of genius has always a plaintive expression, and its natural language is pathos.
Genius is eternal patience.
I like songs to mean something as well as sound good, and Paul Simon is a maestro. While Art Garfunkel was a voice and moved on to other things Simon remained the genius lyricist and composer.
Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright.
There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade, before it has done so itself.
The cult of individuality and personality, which promotes painters and poets only to promote itself, is really a business. The greater the 'genius' of the personage, the greater the profit.
My ultimate is Peter Sellers - his ability to go broad and somehow humanize that and be hilarious at the same time. He was just relatable, real at the same time as insane. I find Ricky Gervais absolutely hilarious. Steve Martin is another hero of mine - he's a genius.
As an actor, I really like Philip Seymour Hoffman. I think he's a genius.
A photographic memory, to me, is kind of like brainiac, genius type. I don't think I have that.
A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
