Genius Quotes
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One type of concentration is immediate and complete, as it was with Mozart. The other is plodding and only completed in stages, as with Beethoven. Thus genius works in different ways to achieve its ends.
Stephen Spender
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After making a mistake or suffering a misfortune, the man of genius always gets back on his feet.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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The highest, the only reality, is ever at hand, but for the most part invisible. Genius makes it visible.
Egon Friedell
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Sleeping is the height of genius.
Soren Kierkegaard
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Genius, the Pythian of the beautiful, leaves its large truths a riddle to the dull.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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Women. Who made 'em? God must have been a genius. Their hair. They say that the hair is everything, you know? Have you ever buried your nose in a mountain of curls, and just wanted to go to sleep forever?
Bo Goldman
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The unrecognized genius of our time.
William March
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Genius is an intellect that has become unfaithful to its destiny.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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When a man of genius appears in the world, it is immediately recognized by the fact that all the blockheads join forces against him.
Jonathan Swift
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I really cannot know whether I am or am not the Genius you are pleased to call me, but I am very willing to put up with the mistake, if it be one. It is a title dearly enough bought by most men, to render it endurable, even when not quite clearly made out, which it never can be till the Posterity, whose decisions are merely dreams to ourselves, has sanctioned or denied it, while it can touch us no further.
Lord Byron
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The daily life of a genius, his sleep, his digestion, he ecstasies, his nails, his colds, his blood, his life and death are essentially different from the rest of mankind.
Salvador Dali
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Only when Genius is married to Science can the highest results be produced.
Herbert Spencer
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Genius is in the idea. Impact, however, comes from action!
Simon Sinek
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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.
Andrew Graham-Dixon
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... France is the genius among nations.
Gertrude Atherton
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Donald Trump stood up and was asked a very specific question, if there's an undocumented illegal in the military or wants to serve in the military, can they stay? And he said, "You know what? I think that's a good idea."That's brilliant. That's genius.
Eric Bolling
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Bruce was a genius, conveniently born on Christmas Eve with, according to my mother, Messiah potential.
Wendy Wasserstein
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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.
George Stillman Hillard
