Genius Quotes
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Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.
Carl Jung -
Every great genius has an admixture of madness.
Aristotle
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Even a genius cannot completely resist his Zeitgeist, the spirit of his time.
Viktor E. Frankl -
The one who was born a genius can't win against the one who tries, and the one who tries can't win against the one who enjoys.
Confucius -
The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
To understand Europe, you have to be a genius - or French.
Madeleine Albright -
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
E. F. Schumacher -
I've done all the table reads for Johnny Depp as Jack Sparrow for all the pirate movies, because he's just been doing other stuff, and I just love the whole Jack Sparrow thing he's got going on; it is just genius, and I just think he has so much fun with it.
Owain Yeoman
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I cherish the ballets made for myself by Mr. Balanchine. He never lost his temper. He was quiet, humble, the genius of the 20th century.
Patricia McBride -
I have nothing to declare but my genius, and this four-kilo bag of cocaine.
Oscar Wilde -
The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make the rest of us wonder at the possibility that we might be missing something.
Gamal Abdel Nasser -
Everybody denies I am a genius - but nobody ever called me one!
Orson Welles -
I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the variety of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust.
Igor Stravinsky -
Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Firstly, I’m a genius. Musically, culturally, everything.
Johnny Borrell Razorlight -
I hate when people use this term, but Matt Weiner is a genius.
Randee Heller -
You begin to realize that the genius of our country is the constant push to be more inclusive and find new ways of engaging everyone.
Maggie Hassan -
I never said I was a genius.
Orson Welles -
Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.
J. G. Ballard -
If I wait for the genius to come, it just doesn't arrive.
Ian Fleming
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Better beware of notions like genius and inspiration; they are a sort of magic wand and should be used sparingly by anybody who wants to see things clearly.
Jose Ortega y Gasset -
The guy who invented the first wheel was an idiot. The guy who invented the other three, he was a genius.
Sid Caesar -
Genius is not inspired. Inspiration is perspiration.
Thomas A. Edison -
I do love the clothes on 'Mad Men' because my character has been so elegant and I would never have had access to these clothes. I think Janie Bryant is a costume designing genius. They'll call and tell me, 'It will only take an hour,' and I'm like, 'I will try on the whole truck!'
Cara Buono