Genius Quotes
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A man who is a genius and doesn't know it, probably isn't.
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Our genius ain't appreciated around here... let's scram!
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Now that I'm on Broadway, it's like NASA engineering with the costumes. I was very grateful for the slightly more high-tech ones in my show, 'Venus in Fur'; our costume designer Anita Yavich is kind of a genius.
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The tragedy is that society (your school, your boss, your government, your family) keeps drumming the genius part out. The problem is that our culture has engaged in a Faustian bargain, in which we trade our genius and artistry for apparent stability.
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Genius only leaves behind it the monuments of its strength.
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The genius of the Constitution rests not in any static meaning it might have had in a world that is dead and gone, but in the adaptability of its great principles to cope with current problems and current needs.
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He [Jesus] was the greatest human being who has ever lived. He was a moral genius. His ethical sense was unique. He was the intrinsically wisest person that I've ever encountered in my life or in my reading. His commitment was total and led to his own death, much to the detriment of the world.
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The unconscious self is the real genius. Your breathing goes wrong the moment your conscious self meddles with it.
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The genius is making a way out of no way.
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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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The unrecognized genius of our time.
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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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The truth is that our race survived ignorance; it is our scientific genius that will do us in.
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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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Every student deserves to be treated as a potential genius.
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Every genius is a great child; he gazes out at the world as something strange, a spectacle, and therefore with purely objective interest.
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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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I think Yelena Akhtiorskaya is a genius. What she manages to do, linguistically and emotionally, in the span of a single sentence, is astonishing.
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We started an organization that's the only sub-organization of the MacArthur Foundation and we are called the Macarturos. Usually when I win something, I'm the only one of my ethnicity to get it, but this time I met all these Latinos, and I was so excited. I'd meet someone and I'd go, "Can you come to San Antonio?" And they'd go, "Oh yeah." And suddenly I had twelve people that said they would come. And I didn't know how it was going to be. And that's how the Macarturos became a reality, where these very generous geniuses come to San Antonio and work together.
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... France is the genius among nations.
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Genius is to other gifts what the carbuncle is to the precious stones. It sends forth its own light, whereas other stones only reflect borrowed light.
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There's been so many different types of musicals and it's a funny genre because there's a fine line between clever and stupid. It really takes a genius to know how to do it.
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A man who possesses genius is insufferable unless he also possesses at least two other things: gratitude and cleanliness.
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To some extent, we all have quirks or idiosyncrasies, and some geniuses, because of how bright they are and how focused they are, may have liberal eccentricities, but they're not at a disabling level.
