Genius Quotes
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It's a weird thing where, especially in jazz, you have to totally mention cutting sessions and people one-upping each other and people being super, super tough on each other. And out of it emerge these genius musicians.
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I'm probably the only guy who worked for (Casey) Stengel before and after he was a genius.
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Discovery is new beginning. It is the origin of new rules that supplement, or even supplant, the old. Genius is creative. It is genius precisely because it disregards established routines, because it originates the novelties that will be the routines of the future. Were there rules for discovery, then discoveries would be mere conclusions.
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Classical education has deformed everything, and has imposed upon us as geniuses men of correct, facile talent, who follow the beaten track.
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To appreciate and use correctly a valuable maxim requires a genius; a vital appropriating exercise of mind closely allied to that which first created it.
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The genius of Man in our time has gone into jet-propulsion, atom-splitting, penicillin-curing, etc. There is none over for works of imagination; of spiritual insight or mystical enlightenment. I asked for bread and was given a tranquilliser.
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There's a thin line between genius and insanity - and I always get labelled as being the crazy one.
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When thou seest an eagle, thou seest a portion of genius; lift up thy head!
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The first thing the world does to a genius is to make him lose all his youth.
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Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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If the birth of a genius resembles that of an idiot, the end of a Havana Corona resembles that of a 5-cent cigar.
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Twelve for 23... It doesn't take a genius to see that's under 50 percent.
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The worship of God is, Honouring his gifts in other men each according to his genius, and loving the greatest men best; those who envy or calumniate great men hate God, for there is no other God.
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Adversity is the midwife of genius.
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The moment of recognizing your own lack of talent is a flash of genius.
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What is Genius?- To aspire to a lofty aim and to will the means to that aim.
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I know quite a few fellow members of the news analysis and commentary business, and I have it from the highest-placed sources, on the record, that each and every one of our children is a genius.
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A person with average talent, ambition and education, can outstrip a genius in society, if that person has focused goals.
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They always say that Albert Einstein was a genius. Then how come when anyone ever calls you that, it's an insult? 'You don't know where you parked the car? Good job, Einstein.' I don't think we're honoring that man properly by using his name in vain in parking lots.
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The art of land warfare is an art of genius, of inspiration. On the sea nothing is genius or inspiration; everything is positive or empiric.
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I never bought the idea of individual genius from which the novel spews forth. It's always an act of curation.
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There are two types of genius; one which above all begets and wants to beget, and another which prefers being fertilized and giving birth.
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Eakins rejected gentlemen athletics as his theme. Instead, he took a subject that had been the stuff of illustrated weeklies and the penny press and turned it into fine art. Eakins celebrates not fire from heaven but honest sweat, not genius but hard work.
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Of course, I consider myself a feminist, but I wouldn't say I'm a feminist genius or anything.
