Genius Quotes
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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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Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.
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Genius creates from the heart and when men put love into their work there is power in it, there is a soul in the body.
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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?
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For creation is not a change, but that dependence of the created existence on the principle from which it is instituted, and thus is of the genus of relation; whence nothing prohibits it being in the created as in the subject. Creation is thus said to be a kind of change, according to the way of understanding, insofar as our intellect accepts one and the same thing as not existing before and afterwards existing.
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Dandyism is a species of genius.
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Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
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It seems to me that even the least of the human race is touched with genius when mad with love.
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The individuals who seem to us most outstanding, who are honored with the name of genius, are those who have proposed to enact the fate of all humanity in their personal existences.
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How dearly, at one time, and how cheaply at another, does Genius purchase immortal fame!
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Patience is eternal genius.
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Genius is in the idea. Impact, however, comes from action!
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I can't say I'm not grateful to have journalists writing about me as a genius. But I know it's not true. I'm not confused. I understand that success comes through a lot of failure and a lot of very embarrassing failure. People want to create the next Facebook, but they are too afraid to create the next Facemash.
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Let a man of genius make use of photography as it should be used, and he will raise himself to a height that we do not know.
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Talent does whatever it wants to do. Genius does only what it can.
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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.
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Lady stand on line before me, speak English so good, like genius, in America only four years, I ashamed tell twenty-two years; I tell twenty!” To class she went only once. “I don’t go back,” she said emphatically. “Too foolish book, Dick and Jane.” She shrugged disdainfully. “Not Tolstoi!"
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Genius, the Pythian of the beautiful, leaves its large truths a riddle to the dull.
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To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius.
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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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A man who fears ridicule will never go far, for good or ill: he remains on this side of this talents, and even if he has genius, he is doomed to mediocrity.
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The whole difference between a man of genius and other men, it has been said a thousand times, and most truly, is that the first remains in great part a child, seeing with the large eyes of children, in perpetual wonder, not conscious of much knowledge--conscious, rather of infinite ignorance, and yet infinite power; a fountain of eternal admiration, delight, and creative force within him meeting the ocean of visible and governable things around him.
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The only term I won't accept is "genius."
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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.
