That's the great thing about being a teenager. You think you're a genius.
The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.
I was in Milan, and somebody gave me a Trussardi diary, and I thought 'Genius.' Inside I put the Polaroids, how much film I shot, who I shot with. This way, for billing later on, I had all the information.
Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.
Truly, the bench is a boon to idlers. Whoever first came up with the idea is a genius: free public resting places where you can take time out from the bustle and brouhaha of the city, and simply sit and watch and reflect.
The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.
His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.
As a bull market continues, almost anything you buy goes up. It makes you feel that investing in stocks is a very easy and safe and that you're a financial genius.
I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.
Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot.
Like many businessmen of genius he learned that free competition was wasteful, monopoly efficient. And so he simply set about achieving that efficient monopoly.
In 1980s, I discovered 'Late Night with David Letterman.' It was on one of the 13 cable TV channels. They didn't have 25 late night talk show hosts trying to be the most outrageous. There was the likeable television genius Johnny Carson and his mad-genius counterpart Dave. There was nothing else crazy on TV every night, and there was no Internet.
A host is like a general: calamities often reveal his genius.
Love can reach the same level of talent, and even genius, as the discovery of differential calculus.
Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.
True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Great innovators like Thomas Alva Edison, Henry Ford, and Andrew Carnegie didn't rely on government. There was hardly any of it in those days. More recently, Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, and Larry Ellison used genius to put brand-new ideas into production.
He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. The dread of censure is the death of genius.
Genius always finds itself a century too early.
Take the complications, rules, shoulds, musts, have tos, and so on out of your life. By uncomplicating your life and removing the trivial pursuits that occupy so much of it, you open a channel for the genius within you to emerge.
