Genius Quotes
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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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Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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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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I think the reality is Michael Jackson's humanity is so deep, the implications and inferences of his art so monumentally and magnificently global, that nothing American television could do to besmirch his character could ever, if you will, deny the legitimate genius that he represents and America has responded, as indeed has the globe.
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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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If a piece of genius comes, it comes, and it if doesn't, it doesn't.
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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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I'd always wanted to be an idiot genius Soho alcoholic.
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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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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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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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I'm equal part genius, equal part buffoon.
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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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I'm not a genius. I'm just a hard-working guy.
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There's a genius part of you that wants to create. That part of you wants to talk to God. Get out of the way.
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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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I think I'm a GENIUS. Point F#*king blank.
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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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There is no more dreary or more repulsive creature than the man who has evaded his genius.
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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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There is no element of genius without some form of madness.
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Manner is all in all, whate'er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
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Take the serious side of Disney, the Confucian side of Disney. It's in having taken an ethoswhere you have the values of courage and tenderness asserted in a way that everybody can understand. You have got an absolute genius there. You have got a greater correlation of nature than you have had since the time of Alexander the Great.
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People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel.
