Genius Quotes
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There is no greater consolation for mediocrity than that the genius is not immortal.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
A man of remarkable genius may afford to pass by a piece of wit, if it happen to border on abuse. A little genius is obliged to catch at every witticism indiscriminately.
William Shenstone
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We need creative people working with broadcasters, making smart content to inspire people to be geniuses.
will.i.am -
I don't want to be a genius-I have enough problems just trying to be a man.
Albert Camus -
You don't have to be a genius or a visionary or even a college graduate to be successful. You just need a framework and a dream.
Michael Dell -
I really got into 'The Walking Dead.' That was genius. And I have to say, my husband is on 'Shameless,' and I think it's a brilliant show.
Sarah Shahi -
I have no physical genius about me. I cant dribble a ball and run at the same time, I cant do lay-ups - Im not an athlete. But my experience as a kid was, I was made fun of so much that what I did then, is, I wouldnt participate. And I think I cheated myself out of a lot of fun.
Rich Mullins -
Genius must ever be imperfect. Life is not long enough nor slow enough for both brain and character to grow side by side to superhuman proportions.
Gertrude Atherton
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The grim reality is that most start-ups fail. Most new products are not successful. Yet the story of perseverance, creative genius, and hard work persists.
Eric Ries -
It is possible that the production of genius is reserved to a limited period of mankind's history.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
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.
will.i.am -
The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category.
Adolf Hitler -
James Watt was equally distinguished as a natural philosopher and chemist; his inventions demonstrate his profound knowledge of those sciences, and that peculiar characteristic of genius - the union of them for practical application.
Humphry Davy -
Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
Vladimir Nabokov
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Unless one is a genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible.
Anthony Hope -
Genius is the ability to look at things simply.
E. Lee Spence -
Comparing man and woman on the whole, one may say: woman would not possess a genius for ornamentation if she did not also possessan instinct for the secondary role.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
A cat knows how to be comfortable, how to get the people around it to serve it. In a tranquil domestic situation, the cat is a veritable manipulative genius. It seeks the soft, it seeks the warm, it prefers the quiet and it loves to be full. It displays, when it gets its own way in these matters, a degree of contentment we would all like to emulate.
Roger Caras -
Ah, a German and a genius! A prodigy, admit him!
Jonathan Swift -
All men of genius, and all those who have gained rank in the republic of letters, are brothers, whatever may be the land of their nativity.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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I'm equal part genius, equal part buffoon.
Noel Gallagher Oasis -
Everything is bilateral in the domain of thought. Ideas are binary. Janus is the myth of criticism and the symbol of genius. Only God is triangular!
Honore de Balzac -
To know how to distinguish the agitation arising from covetousness, from the agitation arising from principles, to fight the one and aid the other, in this lies the genius and the power of great revolutionary leaders.
Victor Hugo -
Humor is one of the elements of genius--admirable as an adjunct; but as soon as it becomes dominant, only a surrogate for genius.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe