Genius Quotes
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For I think it is the case with genius that it is not when quiescent so very much above mediocrity as the difference between the two might lead us to think, but that it has the power and privilege of rising from that level to a height utterly far from mediocrity: in other words that its greatness is that it can be so great.
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My father was a management genius. But what I really wanted was a dad.
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We wish genius and morality where affectionate companions, but it is a fact that they are often bitter enemies. They don't necessarily coalesce any more than oil and water do.
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Unfortunately, goodness and honor are rather the exception than the rule among exceptional men, not to speak of geniuses
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Weaknesses in men of genius are usually an exaggeration of their personal feeling; in the hands of feeble imitators they become the most flagrant blunders. Entire schools have been founded on misinterpretations of certain aspects of the masters. Lamentable mistakes have resulted from the thoughtless enthusiasm with which men have sought inspiration from the worst qualities of remarkable artists because they are unable to reproduce the sublime elements in their work.
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By cultivating an interest in a few good books which contain the result of the toil or the quintessence of the genius of some of the most gifted thinkers of the world, we need not live on the marsh and in the mists. The slopes and ridges invite us.
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Men of strong affections are jealous of their own genius. They fear lest they should be loved for a quality, and not for themselves.
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The words of genius have a wider meaning than the thought that prompted them.
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Women, in general, are not attracted to art at all, nor knowledge, and not at all to genius.
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There is no such thing as an evil genius, as evil in it's self is stupidity.
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J.M.W. Turner... He genuinely tried to create pictures that looked like other artists' pictures, but he always ended up filling them with his own fireworks... through his failure to mimic those whom he admired... he ended up realising his own genius and his own destiny.
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Boldness has power, magic and genius in it.
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Art is the supreme communicator of diverse cultures and ideas in a common frame of understanding, a virtual bridge across time. It is also the universal link into genius.
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The most profitable and praiseworthy genius in the world is untiring industry.
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As far as my creative urge is concerned, I do sit down and write my own music...I'll tell you a writer who I think is a genius: Ray Stevens. He comes up with some of the most fantastic novelty ideas. Dolly Parton also writes well. I like a lot of songs, a lot of writers.
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I was born in Memphis. There was music all around me, really deep and special music. I heard all these great masters at a young age.There was a great genius in my town, Phineas Newborn, who is one of the greatest pianists ever on the planet. He took me under his wings at about 9 and he put me on the right track.
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Rules and models destroy genius and art.
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It is a mark of genius not to astonish but to be astonished.
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Childhood and genius have the same master organ in common - inquisitiveness.
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All the genius I have lies in this; when I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly.
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It's easy to be a genius in your twenties. In your forties, it's difficult.
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Strategy is the most important department of the art of war, and strategical skill is the highest and rarest function of military genius.
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If but a few live coals are found in a mountain of ashes, no one should be disappointed. Genius is a rare quality in this world, and there is no reason why it should be more ubiquitous among Blacks than Whites.
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The source of genius is imagination alone.
