If we will maintain our hope and confidence in the genius of our people, they will work out this problem, and their ability and industry will bring us back to normal conditions.
The problem was Le Corbusier was a genius and an enormous artist, but he tried to resolve problems to which there is no solution. So the idea to demolish the centre of Paris in order to adapt it to the car - he drew it! - is something not even the mo...
The poets' scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death.
Hendrix was a natural genius who played many beautiful styles. Talent as great as his doesn't come through life very frequently. Hendrix was one in a billion.
The only good political movement I've seen lately was Occupy Wall Street. They had no leaders, which was genius. But unfortunately it always ends up with some hippy playing a flute.
There's been so many different types of musicals, and it's a funny genre because there's a fine line between clever and stupid. It really takes a genius to know how to do it.
Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.
You go to college not only for the latest knowledge but also to meet people from different backgrounds. That's the genius of the American higher-education system compared with the Europeans'. We don't simply skim the elite.
Genius is of small use to a woman who does not know how to do her hair.
Genius is an overused word. The world has known only about a half dozen geniuses. I got only fairly near.
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not....Genius will not....Education will not....Persistence and determination are omnipotent.
By and large, talent is in such short supply that mediocrity can be taken for brilliance rather more than genius can go undiscovered.
Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person.
A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius.
Pretend you are a foolish to the tyrant – because if he realizes you are a genius, he might use you to harm others.
Oh! how near are genius and madness! Men imprison them and chain them, or raise statues to them.
Affirmative action based on quotas is wrong - wrong because it is antithetical to the genius of the American idea: individual liberty.
Oprah Winfrey represents the most ingenious and creative expression of black spiritual genius in the public mainstream that we've had in quite a long time, if ever.
President Obama's view of a free economy is to send your money to his friends. My vision for a free enterprise economy is to return entrepreneurship and genius and creativity to the American people!
What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road empirically, following one's nose, taking shortcuts.
I was a 'Glee' fan before I joined the show! Since my background is musical theater, it was exciting to see a TV show that incorporated music so much and in such a genius way.
