Genius Quotes
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Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
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Genius is the talent of a person who is dead.
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Marriage requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy requires genius.
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Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
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I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.
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There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.
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There are only one or two geniuses every century.
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Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes.
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The guy who invented the first wheel was an idiot. The guy who invented the other three, he was a genius.
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Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.
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I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.
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There ain't no genius here. Strategy in baseball is overrated. People say, 'That Weaver, he plays for the long ball too much.' You bet I do. Hit 'em out. Then I got no worry about somebody lousing up a bunt, I got no worry about the hit and run - and that's really overrated - I got no worry about base-running errors. And I can't screw it up myself.
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One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.
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It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
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There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
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The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.
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The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor; it is the one thing that cannot be learned from others; and it is also a sign of genius, since a good metaphor implies an intuitive perception of the similarity of the dissimilar.
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You have plausible deniability, as they say in politics, as an author with movies. Because if the movie is terrible, you simply say they failed to catch the genius of the book.
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Genius is inconsiderate, self-relying, and, like unconscious beauty, without any intention to please.
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Madonna is her own Hollywood studio - a popelike mogul and divine superstar in one. She has a laserlike instinct for publicity, aided by her visual genius for still photography (which none of her legion of imitators has). Unfortunately, her public life has dissolved into a series of staged photo ops.
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Having a million-dollar net worth doesn't make you a genius, and having less than a million-dollar net worth doesn't make you a fool.
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Even a genius cannot completely resist his Zeitgeist, the spirit of his time.
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When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
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Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.
