If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.
We want to seal the deal that we're the best team that's ever happened.
People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel.
Upper berth, lower berth, that's the difference between talent and genius.
How many people can do what I do, anyways? A handful of guys?
Genius is nothing more than common faculties refined to a greater intensity. There are no astonishing ways of doing astonishing things. All astonishing things are done by ordinary materials.
To me, it's always a luxury to be able to work with the best of the best because they make it easier for you to do what you do.
Be the best at what you do or the only one doing it.
While it may not have been the flashiest or the most creative, I brought a very unique skill set, and I executed in a fashion that very few have done before me and, I think, very few will do after me.
When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
I am on an elite level of talent.
My father always used to say to me, it doesn’t matter what the profession is, but if they’re the best in their field, it will always be fascinating to watch.
Things that would have made fame of a less clever man seemed tricks in his hands. It is a mistake to do things too easily.
What N.Y.C. does attract, year in and year out, is the very best general talent from around the world. The absolute smartest, neurons-just-fire-faster, can-bend-spoons-with-their-mind talent.
Genius in one grand particular is like life. We know nothing of either but by their effects.
You can perfect genius because genius is not perfection. On his level and his practice and his methodology, it's almost inhuman. So, that's been a fantastic arc to play, and boy does it go somewhere in this series.
All other men are specialists, but his specialism is omniscience.
I think if you're remarkable, amazing or just plain spectacular, you probably shouldn't have a resume at all.
When folks get to the best of their profession, people are like, "Who am I to give a critique to this individual who's reached mastery?".
