Bobby Fischer Quotes

The thing that most people call 'genius' I do not believe in.

Consider first, that great or bright infers not excellence.

Genius is full of trash.

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

Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.

I think it gets overused and tossed around in ways that aren't true. Every impressive achievement is not genius.

I don't know what 'genius' even means. It's just a matter of keeping your eye on the ball.

I'm a bordering genius.

I'm a genius.

Genius is a strong aphrodisiac.

Genius is not so much a light as it is a constant awareness of the surrounding gloom.

The fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses.

Genius is only a greater aptitude for patience.

You may have genius. The contrary is, of course, probable.

Adrian, you're a genius.

Who in the same given time can produce more than others has vigor; who can produce more and better, has talents; who can produce what none else can, has genius.

People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel.

Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.

The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.

People think I must have been so talented at an early age, but I don't know - was it talent or hard work? Who knows?

It is a very rare thing for a man of talent to succeed by his talent.

It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.

Olivier was another case of a genius, who couldn't understand why anybody would have any trouble doing this, because for him it came so easily.

When you break the rules and you win, you're a hero; when you lose, you're scurrilous.