Genius Quotes
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I'm like a child genius, without being a child or a genius.
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The inquiry in England is not whether a man has talents and genius, but whether he is passive and polite and a virtuous ass and obedient to noblemen's opinions in art and science. If he is, he is a good man. If not, he must be starved.
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Either I'm a genius or I'm mad, which is it? "No," I said, "I can't be mad because nobody's put me away; therefore I'm a genius." Genius is a form of madness and we're all that way. But I used to be coy about it, like me guitar playing. But if there's such a thing as genius - I am one. And if there isn't, I don't care.
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The prophesying business is like writing fugues; it is fatal to every one save the man of absolute genius.
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It's a pity one can't imagine what one can't compare to anything. Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
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Elisa Albert in a nutshell: funny, self-aware, and genuinely fearless that she might be a lunatic, or a genius, or both.
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That's the true genius of America: that America can change. Our union can be perfected. What we've already achieved gives us hope for what we can and must achieve tomorrow.
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And then I had my greatest stroke of genius since that ham sandwich with pickles that time.
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To know one's self is wisdom, but to know one's neighbor is genius.
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Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.
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Genius is native to the soil where it grows — is fed by the air, and warmed by the sun — and is not a hot - house plant or an exotic.
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When the creations of a genius collide with the mind of a layman, and produce an empty sound, there is little doubt as to which is at fault.
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Never imitate the eccentricities of genius, but toil after it in its truer flights. They are not so easy to follow, but they lead to higher regions.
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Grateful to The Kerry Gaynor Method for saving my manager's life. He quit smoking thanks to their genius Method.
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The persecution of genius fosters its influence.
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Greatness is helping others realize they are great, beautiful and capable. Genius is seeing the wonder and possibility in those others ignore.
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Most analysts are SO SMART and have amazing ideas, but they can't convey their genius ideas to others.
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Expect a most agreeable letter; for not being overburdened with subject (having nothing at all to say) I shall have no check to my Genius from beginning to end.
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The distinction between talent and genius is definite. Talent combines and uses; genius combines and creates.
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Genius is infinite painstaking.
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Features alone do not run in the blood; vices and virtues, genius and folly, are transmitted through the same sure but unseen channel.
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The greatest genius will not be worth much if he pretends to draw exclusively from his own resources.
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The essence of genius is to know what to overlook.
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But in this world of morally-warped phenomena there are rare and happy exceptions of truly great magnitude, which always pay dearly for their exclusiveness and fall a prey to their own superiority. Natures of genius, themselves unaware of their genius, they are relentlessly killed by an unconscious society as an expiatory sacrifice to its own sins … Such is Pushkin’s Tatiana.
