Pastoral Resources

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.

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

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

Of all the projects I've worked on, I've never worked with another director like Billy Friedkin. I think he's a genius.

Action, so to speak, is the genius of nature.

Many now born, by the time they are voters will compose part of a nation with a genius nowhere equaled, and with a vast territory upon which those energies and that genius can operate.

If you hype something and it succeeds, you're a genius - it wasn't a hype. If you hype it and it fails, then it was just a hype.

I've learned any fool can write a bad ad, but it takes a real genius to keep his hands off a good one.

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

I am the farthest thing from a computer genius.

The genius of America is that we are still a land of undiscovered shores, and we are at our best when we open our hearts and allow the night winds to bring renewed visions of great deeds.

Dali is like a man who hesitates between talent and genius, or, as one might once have said, between vice and virtue.

Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright.

Since when was genius found respectable?