The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
The only folk I can judge are people like Woody Allen who I think is a genius, largely because I think he has beaten the system. He has his own company, and his films are all his own ideas. It's his direction, and so it comes out the way he imagined it.
She was a genius, my mother.
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.
Gene Roddenberry was a genius.
If we will maintain our hope and confidence in the genius of our people, they will work out this problem, and their ability and industry will bring us back to normal conditions.
Then I heard this genius teacher Stella Adler - I recommend you read anything you might find about her and if you have anyone interested in theatre, you get them one of her books.
The media works in sound bites. They can make you look like a genius or stupid.
Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.
A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.
Genius is a word too often tossed around in musical circles.
And indeed if you think you're a genius at something, what you achieve is very much according to your expectations; if you think you're no good, you're not going to get anywhere.
I do feel very strongly that this is one of the things which people need encouragement to sort out, because I have this very strong feeling that everybody is probably a genius at something, it's just a question of finding this.
It's a lucky child that knows that they're a genius, unaimed and all that.