Genius Quotes
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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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The distinction between talent and genius is definite. Talent combines and uses; genius combines and creates.
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Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.
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The essence of genius is to know what to overlook.
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Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.
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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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Genius is nothing more than an extraordinary manifestation of the body.
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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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In every idea of genius or in every new human idea, or, more simply still, in every serious human idea born in anyone's brain, there is something that cannot possibly be conveyed to others.
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True genius without heart is a thing of nought - for not great understanding alone, not intelligence alone, nor both together, make genius. Love! Love! Love! that is the soul of genius.
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Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature.
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Genius is infinite painstaking.
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The persecution of genius fosters its influence.
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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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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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When I wrote 'My Humps,' I said, 'This is the stupidest thing ever,' but in a good way. I always wondered what it must be like to be a girl, always gettin' pulled on. Maybe she's the smartest genius on the planet, but she's rackin' double Ds with a 26-inch waist and a big ol' ass and no one's ever gonna see her like that because that's the way the world is today.
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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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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 definition of genius is that it acts unconsciously, and those who have produced immortal works have done so without knowing how or why.
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Genius, like humanity, rusts for want of use.
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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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A genius may perhaps be a century ahead of his age and hence stands there as a paradox, but in the end, the race will assimilate what was once a paradox, so it is no longer paradoxical.
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There is no doubt but men of genius and leisure may carry our method to greater perfection, but, having had long experience, we have found none equal to it for the commodiousness it affords in working with the Understanding.
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He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. The dread of censure is the death of genius.
