Genius Quotes
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We need to develop the intuitive capacities of the brain that some geniuses have manifested over humanity's lengthy history.
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The unrecognized genius of our time.
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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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High original genius is always ridiculed on its first appearance; most of all by those who have won themselves the highest reputation in working on the established lines. Genius only commands recognition when it has created the taste which is to appreciate it.
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For I think it is the case with genius that it is not when quiescent so very much above mediocrity as the difference between the two might lead us to think, but that it has the power and privilege of rising from that level to a height utterly far from mediocrity: in other words that its greatness is that it can be so great.
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The highest, the only reality, is ever at hand, but for the most part invisible. Genius makes it visible.
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If beauty isn't genius it usually signals at least a high level of animal cunning.
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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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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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After making a mistake or suffering a misfortune, the man of genius always gets back on his feet.
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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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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.
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Bruce was a genius, conveniently born on Christmas Eve with, according to my mother, Messiah potential.
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Gordie, the white boy genius, gave me this book by a Russian dude named Tolstoy, who wrote, 'Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.' Well, I hate to argue with a Russian genius, but Tolstoy didn't know Indians, and he didn't know that all Indian families are unhappy for the same exact reasons: the frikkin' booze.
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Genius is an intellect that has become unfaithful to its destiny.
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Memory exercised in a particular way is a natural gift of poetic genius. The poet above all else, is a person who never forgets certain sense impressions which he has experienced and which he can relive again as though with all their original freshness.
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Talent is able to achieve what is beyond other people's capacity to achieve, yet not what is beyond their capacity of apprehension; therefore it at once finds its appreciators. The achievement of genius, on the other hand, transcends not only others' capacity of achievement, but also their capacity of apprehension; therefore they do not become immediately aware of it. Talent is like the marksman who hits a target which others cannot reach; genius is like the marksman who hits a target, as far as which others cannot even see.
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I have worked with countless organizations that exhaust energy adapting to the weaknesses of the leader. I had a leader announce to his/her team the other day that he/she was the smartest person in the room. It perhaps was true, but that is where self-regulation should come in. The days of one genius surrounded by a bunch of worker bees are hopefully done. I know Millennials won't buy into such a scenario.
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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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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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The particulars of life do not matter to the artist; they merely provide him with the opportunity to lay bare his genius.
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The source of genius is imagination alone.
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One cannot explain the existence of genius. It is better to enjoy it.
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Genius can do much, but even genius falls short of the actuality of a single human life.
