#genius

Well, you cannot think of cinema now, and you cannot think of cinema in the UK and not place Chaplin in the most extraordinary elevated context, if there can be such a thing, in that he was a genius, he was unique. ↗

— Richard Attenborough

#chaplin #cinema #context #elevated #extraordinary

Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one's training. ↗

— Bernard Berenson

#capacity #genius #productive #reaction #training

Developing your unique thought to the level of being appreciated and adopted by the world - that's genius. ↗

— Ogwo David Emenike

#inspirational #motivational #thought #inspirational

Geniuses have the shortest biographies. ↗

— Claire Messud

#biography

Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense. ↗

— Josh Billings

#anything #common #common sense #elegant #genius

Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius. ↗

— Josh Billings

#common sense #enough #genius #instinct #sense

The only way you can get good, unless you're a genius, is to copy. That's the best thing. Just steal. ↗

— Ritchie Blackmore

#copy #genius #get #good #just

The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#allowed #freedom #general #genius #insight

If you hype something and it succeeds, you're a genius - it wasn't a hype. If you hype it and it fails, then it was just a hype. ↗

— Neil Bogart

#genius #hype #just #something #succeeds

Oh, I'm not a true genius. I'm a near genius. I would say I'm a short genius. I'd rather be tall and normal than a short genius. ↗

— Mel Brooks

#i #near #normal #oh #rather