Doorman - a genius who can open the door of your car with one hand help you in with the other and still have one left for the tip.
The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense without the grace of genius can deal with successfully.
The only way you can get good unless you're a genius is to copy. That's the best thing. Just steal.
Genius always gives its best at first prudence at last.
The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges or churches or parlors nor even in its newspapers or inventors but always most in the common people.
If beauty isn't genius it usually signals at least a high level of animal cunning.
Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into beauty like a reed.
Imperfection is beauty madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.
Almost all institutions own a lot more art than they can ever show much of it revealing for its timeliness genius or sheer weirdness.
One science only will one genius fit so vast is art so narrow human wit.
Mild autism can give you a genius like Einstein. If you have severe autism you could remain nonverbal. You don't want people to be on the severe end of the spectrum. But if you got rid of all the autism genetics you wouldn't have science or art. All you would have is a bunch of social 'yak yaks.'
Rules and models destroy genius and art.
Taste is the fundamental quality which sums up all the other qualities. It is the nec plus ultra of the intelligence. Through this alone is genius the supreme health and balance of all the faculties.
No one can arrive from being talented alone work transforms talent into genius.
Genius begins great works labor alone finishes them.
The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.
Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not the world is full of educated failures. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.