Genius Quotes
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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!
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The mother of useful arts is necessity; that of the fine arts is luxury. For father the former has intellect; the latter genius, which itself is a kind of luxury.
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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.
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There is no greater consolation for mediocrity than that the genius is not immortal.
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Always to see the general in the particular is the very foundation of genius.
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Genius is intensity of life; an overflowing vitality which floods and fertilizes a continent or a hemisphere of being; which makes a nature many-sided and whole, while most men remain partial and fragmentary.
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Every new invention has been a protest of genius against the masses.
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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.
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Part of America's genius has always been its ability to absorb newcomers, to forge a national identity out of the disparate lot that arrived on our shores.
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Genius is the ability to look at things simply.
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The role of a leader is not to rule over other people, but to hold a space for their own genius.
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Genius can never despise labour.
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That's when I heard the sounds of a certified genius spinning around in circles like a dog chasing its tail.
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Too often we forget that genius, too, depends upon the data within its reach, that even Archimedes could not have devised Edison's inventions.
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Which are you?...competen t, inspiring, passionate, obsessed, provocative, impatient, hungry, driven, adoring, inspired, an artist, a genius, someone who cares...? With all these remarkable, powerful, important options available to each of us, why do so many of us default to competent?
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A woman whom we need and who makes us suffer elicits from us a whole gamut of feelings far more profound and vital than a man of genius who interests us.
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His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.
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Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.
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I believe God wrote the Word in your essence. That's the genius of my Father. You are born knowing right from wrong. You don't need a book to tell you that!
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Mediocrity has no greater consolation than in the thought that genius is not immortal.
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Good sense travels on the well-worn paths; genius, never. And that is why the crowd, not altogether without reason, is so ready to treat great men as lunatics.
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Ages are All Equal. / But Genius is Always Above The Age.
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Genius is a stream bathed by the folly.
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Every true poet, I thought, must be original and originality a condition of poetic genius; so that each poet is like a species in nature (not an individuum genericum or specificum ) and can never recur. That nothing shd. be old or borrowed however cannot be.
