Genius Quotes
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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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Genius unexerted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks.
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To run over better waters the little vessel of my genius now hoists her sails, as she leaves behind her a sea so cruel.
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Genius, like humanity, rusts for want of use.
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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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True genius doesn't fulfill expectations, it shatters them.
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Some people think I'm a mythical genius, others think I'm a junkie madman.
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Genius is supposed to be a power of producing excellencies, which are out of the reach of the rules of art.
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Plot involves fragmentary reality, and it might involve composite reality. Fragmentary reality is the view of the individual. Composite reality is the community or state view. Fragmentary reality is always set against composite reality. Virginia Woolf did this by creating fragmentary monologues and for a while this was all the rage in literature. She was a genius. In the hands of the merely talented it came off like gibberish.
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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.
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Talent may be in time forgiven, but genius never.
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There is no balking genius. Only death can silence it or hinder.
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Because you are a great lord, you think you are a great genius! . . . Nobility, wealth ... You went to the trouble of being born—nothing more! For the rest—a very ordinary man!
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Sachin Tendulkar is a genius. I'm a mere mortal.
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Genius? Nothing! Sticking to it is the genius! ... I've failed my way to success.
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The real people of genius were resolute workers not idle dreamers.
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Genius is born-not paid.
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I always use the Jeff Beck model. Jeff Beck is just a genius, and he keeps getting better ... If there's anybody in your field you want to aspire to be like, it is a guy who does what he wants to do. Every record at least he comes out with one thing that makes everybodys' jaw drop ... I would hope that Jimi Hendrix would have done that, although, man, the odds are against him because he did so much in such a short amount of time.
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They say that genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains," he remarked with a smile. "It's a very bad definition, but it does apply to detective work.
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God is the poetic genius in each of us.
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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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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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The rust of the mind is the destruction of genius.
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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.
