John Green Quotes

... Geniuses have a little extra something. There's that little something that you know is a little different.

You can do something with talent, but nothing with genius.

Perhaps only a Genius can truly understand Genius.

Anybody can put things together that belong together. to put things together that don't go together, and make it work, that takes genius like Mozart's. Yet he is presented in the play Amadeus as a kind of silly boy whom the gods loved.

Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.

A genius is someone with the ability to come up with ideas that are new, surprising and valuable.

Talent warms-up the given (as they say in cookery) and makes it apparent; genius brings something new. But our time lets talent pass for genius. They want to abolish the genius, deify the genius, and let talent forge ahead.

A genius is somebody who seemingly just reaches out of nowhere.

I love to create magic - to put something together that's so unusual, so unexpected that it blows people's heads off. Something ahead of the times. Five steps ahead of what people are thinking.

the distinction between talent and genius is definite. Talent combines and uses; genius combines and creates.

Works of genius are the first things in the world.

There has never been any great genius without a spice of madness.

Genius is another word for magic.

Geniuses can be scintillating and geniuses can be somber, but it's that inescapable sorrowful depth that shines through-originality.

No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.

It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.

Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.

Genius declares itself to be a kind of higher masculinity.

Talent is the ability to say things well, but genius is the ability to, well, say things.

The difference between Talent and Genius is that Talent says things which he has never heard but once, and Genius things which he has never heard.

There's a fine line between what would characterize you as a troglodyte and what would characterize you as a brilliant, avant-garde, forward-thinking genius. There's some middle ground.

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

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

No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.

Creative genius is a divinely bestowed gift which is the coronation of the few.