#genius

Music looks very formidable to people outside of it and it looks like it's this realm of spooky genius. ↗

— Jon Brion

#genius #like #looks #music #outside

The genius of our country is improvisation, and jazz reflects that. It's our great contribution to the arts. ↗

— Ken Burns

#contribution #country #genius #great #improvisation

Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it. ↗

— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

#enthusiasm #genius #sincerity #truth #victories

If you stick with a vision, it might not all work, but some of it will be absolute genius. To me, 15 minutes worth of absolute genius in a film is so much better than two hours of mediocrity. I would rather pay to see something different like that. ↗

— Kim Cattrall

#absolute #better #different #film #genius

Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#butcher #dream #equal #escape #geniuses

When you're young you believe it when people tell you how good you are. And that's the danger, you inhale. Everyone will tell you you're a genius, which you are not, and if you understand that, you win. ↗

— George Clooney

#danger #everyone #genius #good #how

Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#companion #even #genius #inseparable #moderation

The drafts which true genius draws upon posterity, although they may not always be honored so soon as they are due, are sure to be paid with compound interest in the end. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#always #compound #drafts #draws #due

Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#mediocrity #observe #talk

Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#every #genius #must #production