Jonathan Agnew Quotes

Most geniuses are weird.

Good sense travels on the well-worn paths; genius, never. And that is why the crowd, not altogether without reason, is so ready to treat great men as lunatics.

Since when was genius found respectable?

Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.

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

Is it not in the most absolute simplicity that real genius plies its pinions the most wonderfully?

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

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

We allow no geniuses around our Studio.

Genius does what it must, and talent does what it can.

Some of the craziest people I've met, in my life, are some of the most brilliant people I've met.

We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy at least until we have become as clever as they are.

Genius is a potential that lives within you and every other human being. You have many moments of genius in your lifetime. These are the times when you have a uniquely brilliant idea and implement it even if only you are aware of how fantastic it is.

The definition of genius, really, should be that that person can do what the rest of us have to learn how to do.

Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.

Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.

Men of genius are not be analyzed by commonplace rules.

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

We have to understand that all geniuses have a crazy side to them.

We measure genius by quality, not by quantity.

A genius is a man who has two great ideas.

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

A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.

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.