Genius Quotes
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The night before, I'd gone overboard with my Lila poems, and maybe it's true that I was hoping that in them he'd see the genius of me, the beauty of my words in his hands.
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Genius only leaves behind it the monuments of its strength.
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There are two very different types of artists: those I call Old Masters, who work by trial and error and tend to improve with age, and conceptual people, or Young Geniuses, who generally do their best work early in their careers.
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Childhood and genius have the same master organ in common - inquisitiveness.
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Our genius ain't appreciated around here... let's scram!
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To use many words to communicate few thoughts is everywhere the unmistakable sign of mediocrity. To gather much thought into few words stamps the man of genius.
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Genius is the accumulated wealth of our humanity--its most intense development concentrated at one point, and then with clearer expression and with mysterious power shot back to us across the galvanic lines of thought and feeling.
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Character shows itself apart from genius as a special thing. The first point of measurement of any man is that of quality.
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The extraordinary genius of John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie 100 years ago was their recognition that the great wealth they had amassed could be put to public good and used to solve the complex problems for which there were no other sources of capital.
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Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not time properly to attend to [money management]; for. ... want of attention to pecuniary matters ... has impeded the progress of science and of genius itself.
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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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Always to see the general in the particular is the very foundation of genius.
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Not everyone who has a savant skill I would equate with a genius.
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There is no such thing as unfortunate genius; if a man or woman is fit for work, God appoints the field.
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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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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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Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.
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Some have the temperament and tastes of genius, without its creative power. They feel acutely, but express tamely.
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You dont have to be a political genius to sniff the smell of blood in the water.
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Do you know how a man makes his way here? By brilliant genius or by skilful corruption. You must either cut your way through these masses of men like a cannon ball, or steal among them like a plague.
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If beauty isn't genius it usually signals at least a high level of animal cunning.
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Talent warms-up the given (as they say in cookery) and makes it apparent; genius brings something new. But our time lets talent pass for genius. They want to abolish the genius, deify the genius, and let talent forge ahead.
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Ian Curtis was a young genius.
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Women, in general, are not attracted to art at all, nor knowledge, and not at all to genius.
