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The only way you can get good, unless you're a genius, is to copy. That's the best thing. Just steal.

Ritchie Blackmore

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

Jimmy Carl Black

Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.

Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius.

Genius - to know without having learned; to draw just conclusions from unknown premises; to discern the soul of things.

The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.

This island is made mainly of coal and surrounded by fish. Only an organizing genius could produce a shortage of coal and fish at the same time.

Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.

Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one's training.

Bernard Berenson

Genius worship is the inevitable sign of an uncreative age.

Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which you and I size people up.

I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him.

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.

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.

Because you are a great lord, you believe yourself to be a great genius. You took the trouble to be born, but no more.

Pierre Beaumarchais