#genius

If you knew how much work went into it, you wouldn't call it genius. ↗

— Michelangelo Buonarroti

#michelangelo #genius

Why shouldn't I be introspective? We dont' make sense." "Neither do Chocolate and Peanut Butter, but it somehow works." He says "Somehow the mixture of two things is genius. ↗

— Simone Elkeles

#cute #maggie #genius

Geniuses and supergeniuses always make their own rules about sex as on everything else; they do not accept the monkey customs of their lessers. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#genius

…because talent isn't genius, and no amount of energy can make it so. I want to be great, or nothing. ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

#little-women #louisa-may-alcott #talent #louisa-may-alcott

Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#coming #found #genius #imagination #inherited

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. ↗

— Hank Azaria

#absolutely #another #broad #find #genius

Surely, if knowledge is valuable, it can never be good policy in a country far wealthier than Tuscany, to allow a genius like Mr. Dalton's, to be employed in the drudgery of elementary instruction. ↗

— Charles Babbage

#country #dalton #drudgery #elementary #employed

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

As far as me knowing if Frank was a genius - in those days, I thought Einstein was the only genius around. ↗

— Jimmy Carl Black

#as far as #days #einstein #far #frank

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

— Josh Billings

#anything #common #common sense #elegant #genius