Genius Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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Don't dissipate your powers; strive to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but it will surely repent of every ill-judged outlay.
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Despair and Genius are too oft connected.
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If beauty isn't genius it usually signals at least a high level of animal cunning.
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Genius is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one, and the man of talent sees two or three, plus the ability to register that multiple perception in the material of his art.
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The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities
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Boldness has power, magic and genius in it.
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A taste is subtle sense and the genius is a sublime mind.
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Our genius ain't appreciated around here... let's scram!
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Some very dull and sad people have genius though the world may not count it as such; a genius for love, or for patience, or for prayer, maybe. We know the divine spark is here and there in the world: who shall say under what manifestations, or humble disguise!
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The most profitable and praiseworthy genius in the world is untiring industry.
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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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For a long time I found myself calling so many things "genius." Sometimes you mean it literally and sometimes it's the opposite, but either way it is so heavy and has so much meaning.
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Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.
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Talent is the ability to say things well, but genius is the ability to, well, say things.
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There never appear more than five or six men of genius in an age, but if they were united the world could not stand before them.
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Always to see the general in the particular is the very foundation of genius.
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Every family should have at least three children. Then if one is a genius the other two can support him.
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Deep inside all of us a huge potential beckons, waiting to open us to the joy, genius, freedom and Love within.
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I was always moved by all of the music. As a young man, Duke Ellington and Lionel Hampton, Count Basie and all these great musicians would come through our town of Memphis. There wasn't adequate hotels, so these musicians - the lady who ran the theater knew my mother, who had a large house, and many of them would stay with us. So that was another great blessing, so I'm always around these great geniuses, and to realize their humanity is such a touching thing.
