Margaret Boden Quotes

One of the strongest characteristics of genius is the power of lighting its own fire.

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

What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality?

Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes.

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

Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.

Sometimes the best ideas will come in the least inspiring places.

Talent is full of thoughts, Genius is thought. Talent is a cistern, Genius a fountain.

Talent and genius operate outside the rules, and theory conflicts with practice.

We need radical thinking, creative ideas, and imagination.

If your mind is at work, we're in danger of reproducing another cliche. If we can keep our minds out of it and our thoughts out of it, maybe we'll come up with something original.

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

We allow no geniuses around our Studio.

There is no off position on the genius switch.

Most geniuses are weird.

There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.

Genius not only diagnoses the situation but supplies the answers.

The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius.

The moment a man begins to talk about technique that's proof that he is fresh out of ideas.

Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.

The difference between being able to understand something and inventing it in the first place... is called genius.

Upper berth, lower berth, that's the difference between talent and genius.

Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.

Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.

What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.