Genius Quotes
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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 growing complexity of science, technology, and organization does not imply either a growing knowledge or a growing need for knowledge in the general population. On the contrary, the increasingly complex processes tend to lead to increasingly simple and easily understood products. The genius of mass production is precisely in its making more products more accessible, both economically and intellectually to more people.
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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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You have read and heard that communist theory-the science of communism created in the main by Marx, this doctrine of Marxism-has ceased to be the work of a single socialist of the nineteenth century, even though he was a genius, and that it has become the doctrine of millions and tens of millions of proletarians all over the world, who are applying it in their struggle against capitalism.
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My father was a management genius. But what I really wanted was a dad.
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A man who is a genius and doesn't know it, probably isn't.
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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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Childhood and genius have the same master organ in common - inquisitiveness.
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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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After making a mistake or suffering a misfortune, the man of genius always gets back on his feet.
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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 most profitable and praiseworthy genius in the world is untiring industry.
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Hats off, gentlemen - a genius! If the mighty autocrat of the north knew what a dangerous enemy threatened him in Chopin's works in the simple tunes of his mazurkas, he would forbid this music. Chopin's works are canons buried in flowers.
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Our genius ain't appreciated around here... let's scram!
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Genius only leaves behind it the monuments of its strength.
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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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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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A great composition to me is.. an incarnation of a genius, of all that was ever in him of the slightest consequence.
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Talent is full of thoughts, Genius is thought. Talent is a cistern, Genius a fountain.
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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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The unconscious self is the real genius. Your breathing goes wrong the moment your conscious self meddles with it.
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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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Could we teach taste or genius by rules, they would be no longer taste and genius.
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I have it in my head that when we’re born, God writes things down on our hearts. See, on some people’s hearts he writes happy and on some people’s hearts he writes sad and on some people’s hearts he writes crazy and on some people’s hearts he writes genius and on some people’s hearts he writes angry and on some people’s hearts he writes winner and on some people’s hearts he writes loser.
