Genius Quotes
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Against attempts on my life, I trust in my luck, my good genius, and my guards.
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I don't want to be a genius-I have enough problems just trying to be a man.
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The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor.
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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.
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I'm equal part genius, equal part buffoon.
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The most common-place people become highly imaginative when they are in a passion. Whole dramas of insult, injury, and wrong pass before their minds,--efforts of creative genius, for there is sometimes not a fact to go upon.
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Dostoevsky's visible world was a world of sensationalism. He may in the last analysis be a great mystic or a great psychologist; but he almost always reveals his genius on a stage crowded with people who behave like the men and women one reads about in the police news.
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Artists are people with a genius for finding a new answer, a new connection, or a new way of getting things done.
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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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The demon of intemperance ever seems to have delighted in sucking the blood of genius and of generosity.
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Good taste cannot supply the place of genius in literature, for the best proof of taste, when there is no genius, would be, not to write at all.
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The rust of the mind is the destruction of genius.
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The Bible makes it clear that every time that there is a story of faith, it is completely original. God's creative genius is endless.
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Let us leave to the brain what belongs to it, and agree that the work of the men of genius is of the superhuman, the offspring of man.
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Geniuses are commonly believed to excel other men in their power of sustained attention . . . But it is their genius making them attentive, not their attention making geniuses of them.
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True genius walks along a line, and, perhaps, our greatest pleasure is in seeing it so often near falling, without being ever actually down.
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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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Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person.
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I am humbled by the nomination. I got to work with a cast and writers made up of geniuses. The good news is I can finally realize my life long dream and buy my wife a solid gold speed boat.
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Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
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Anybody who is stupid enough often stumbles on an effect that could never be thought up by the most brilliant. I suspect that there is a thing which you might call the genius of stupidity.
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Sachin Tendulkar is a genius. I'm a mere mortal.
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I was painfully shy when I was younger but at some point you've gotta grow up. I think the genius in the man-boy thing is you tap into a woman's motherly instincts.
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He has fantastic powers. He can be imperious, abrupt, impatient with sloppy procedures, but he is also poetic, visionary, romantic. He is possessed by two geniuses: dry-eyed, rigorous exactitude, and generous leaps of imagination - non-rigid, non-uniform and innovative.
