Genius Quotes
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What drives intellectuals and professors crazy is somebody with a high school diploma who made a fortune in business. They agree with Lenin, who thought success in business was a matter of luck, when in reality it is a matter of genius.
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It is possible that the production of genius is reserved to a limited period of mankind's history.
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Men and women make sad mistakes about their own symptoms, taking their vague uneasy longings, sometimes for genius, sometimes for religion, and oftener still for a mighty love.
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Reading is the royal road to intellectual eminence...Truly good books are more than mines to those who can understand them. They are the breathings of the great souls of past times. Genius is not embalmed in them, but lives in them perpetually.
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His hypothesis goes to this - to make the common run of his readers fancy they can do all that can be done by genius, and to make the man of genius believe he can only do what is to be done by mechanical rules and systematic industry. This is not a very feasible scheme; nor is Sir Joshua sufficiently clear and explicit in his reasoning in support of it.
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There is no more dreary or more repulsive creature than the man who has evaded his genius.
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The persecution of genius fosters its influence.
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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.
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True genius doesn't fulfill expectations, it shatters them.
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One of the cheapest commodities in the world is unfulfilled genius. All of us want to be known as a unique individual, the one who broke out of the pack. So, you offer yourself up as a sacrifice and what you’re afraid of is losing and being thrown back into the pack. One question taunts you. Do you want to have, or do you want to be?
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They're the perfect loving family, so adoring... And I love them every day of every week. So my son's a little shit, my husband's boring, And my daughter, though a genius, is a freak.
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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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If I can win grammys then that means all you yet to be seen bedroom geniuses will one day TAKEOVER THE WORLD
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There is no element of genius without some form of madness.
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Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Some people think I'm a mythical genius, others think I'm a junkie madman.
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Of the three prerequisites of genius; the first is soul; the second is soul; and the third is soul.
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Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.
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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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One wants in a Prime Minister a good many things, but not very great things. He should be clever but need not be a genius; he should be conscientious but by no means strait-laced; he should be cautious but never timid, bold but never venturesome; he should have a good digestion, genial manners, and, above all, a thick skin.
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As I hope For quiet days, fair issue, and long life, With such love as 'tis now, the murkiest den, The most opportune place, the strong'st suggestion Our worser genius can, shall never melt Mine honour into lust, to take away The edge of that day's celebration, When I shall think or Phoebus' steeds are founder'd Or Night kept chain'd below.
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Each man's soul is his genius.
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You don't have to go to Harvard to figure out that the Big East is the best league in the country. You don't have to be a genius. A dummy like me can figure that out. When I look at my coach of the year candidates, Jamie Dixon is in my top five. Jamie has done a fantastic job. He has lost some heartbreakers on the road, but that's because winning on the road in the Big East is so difficult. They've been able to win at home. And that's the key when you play in a tough league. You better win your home games.
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The genius of America is production; and a large percentage of our productive enterprises are headed by men who have come up from the worker's bench.
