Genius Quotes
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It should be possible to say that there really is such as thing as "genius" and that what it is, is precisely a surprising and unexpected movement away from collective patterns of behavior and received wisdom.
William Irwin Thompson
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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.
Barry S. Strauss
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Of course, I consider myself a feminist, but I wouldn't say I'm a feminist genius or anything.
Zara Larsson
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The concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public.
Ezra Pound
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Artistic genius is an expansion of monkey imitativeness.
William Winwood Reade
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The US patent system adds the fuel of interest to the fire of genius in the discovery and production of new and useful things.
Abraham Lincoln
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I'm like a child genius, without being a child or a genius.
Tim Rice-Oxley Keane
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Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
William James
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Genius is a steed too fiery for the plow or the cart.
Henry Ward Beecher
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The seventh factor of the basic ingredients of genius, as determined from an extensive analysis of the lives of outstanding men of this nation, is *the habit of going the extra mile.* You will never be a genius unless you make it a habit to do more and better than you are paid to do, every single day of your life.
Napoleon Hill
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An average person who develops the habit of setting clear priorities and getting important tasks completed quickly will run circles around a genius who talks a lot and makes wonderful plans but gets very little done.
Brian Tracy
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Consequently, the value and importance of the monarchic idea cannot reside in the person of the monarch himself except if Heaven decides to lay the crown on the brow of the heroic genius like Frederick the Great or a wise character like William I.
Adolf Hitler
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Whenever I'm out of town for at least a week, I feel like I should write a postcard or something, but you can be a genius, you try and write a postcard you come across like a moron anyway: 'This city's got big buildings. I like food. Bye.'
Jim Gaffigan
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He thinks too much. Such men are dangerous.
William Shakespeare
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As I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius; which to Angels look like torment and insanity, I collected some of their Proverbs.
William Blake
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If I always appear prepared, it is because before entering an undertaking, I have meditated long and have foreseen what might occur. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly and secretly what I should do in circumstances unexpected by others; it is thought and preparation.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Genius simply cannot be reduced to a set of rules for anyone to follow.
Albert Einstein
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The distinction between talent and genius is definite. Talent combines and uses; genius combines and creates.
Anna Brownell Jameson
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Only a genius can play a fool.
Michael Rapaport
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When I had to fill in my immigration papers, I gave my age as 19, and my profession as genius; I added that I had nothing to declare except my talent.
Oscar Wilde
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I've seen high and lows. When things go well that doesn't make me feel like some genius. Nor will I allow the next disappointment to make me feel like a complete failure.
Ben Affleck
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Inspiration is the opportunity of genius.
Honore de Balzac
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O liberty, Parent of happiness, celestial born When the first man became a living soul; His sacred genius thou.
Edward Dyer
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A genius is a talented person who does his homework.
Thomas A. Edison