The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.
Bruce Feirstein

Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.
Robert Bulwer-Lytton

Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it.
Robert Bulwer-Lytton

UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity.
Dennis Ritchie

The genius of the economic machine is in its ability to convert these indulgences into profitability. It converts desire into attention, a grip on our eyeballs and eardrums, which in turn can be marketed to advertisers.
Todd Gitlin

Talent does whatever it wants to do. Genius does only what it can.
Eugene Delacroix

I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhere.
Beck

Anybody can put things together that belong together. to put things together that don't go together, and make it work, that takes genius like Mozart's. Yet he is presented in the play Amadeus as a kind of silly boy whom the gods loved.
Lukas Foss

Genius is rarely able to give any account of its own processes.
George Henry Lewes

You may think me crude, and probably I am crude, but I am not so crude as I was, for I am clever enough to see that the girl of nineteen who thought herself a genius was only an unusual girl writing her heart out.
Mary MacLane

Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into beauty like a reed.
George Henry Lewes

First have being in your mind. Make real in your mind then bring that being into reality. The genius is he who sees what is not yet and causes it to come to be.
Peter Nivio Zarlenga

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

Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius... he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much.
William Godwin

The world is not so much in need of new thoughts as that when thought grows old and worn with usage it should, like current coin, be called in, and, from the mint of genius, reissued fresh and new.
Alexander Smith

Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
Christian Nestell Bovee

When my nephew was 3 and 4, he would say the most genius things. He said, You're hammer macho with FBI dogs. I thought it was just one of those great lines.
Beck

I was induced to establish several orders of merit, from conviction that emulation, well directed, becomes a useful servant; and, that the latent genius of some youth is more easily brought into action this way, than by the more sordid gratification of self-interest.
Joseph Lancaster

In Goodfellas they have this one scene where the camera goes down some steps and walks through a kitchen into a restaurant and the critics were all over this as evidence of the genius of Scorsese and Scorsese is a genius.
Alex Cox

Which is why, in my lieder concerts, I always strove, when possible, to sing only the works of a single composer, so that the audience could be gradually drawn into a particular creative genius' way of thinking, and could follow him.
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau