Genius Quotes
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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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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.
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The only term I won't accept is "genius."
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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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Only when Genius is married to Science can the highest results be produced.
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Any fool can make something complicated. It takes a genius to make it simple.
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Talent is full of thoughts, Genius is thought. Talent is a cistern, Genius a fountain.
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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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Two per cent. is genius, and ninety-eight per cent. is hard work.
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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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His judgement demonstrates that one can be a genius and understand nothing of an art that is not one's own.
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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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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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We need to develop the intuitive capacities of the brain that some geniuses have manifested over humanity's lengthy history.
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Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
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I would love to think there is a direct relationship between coffee and genius, but they've done studies, and if anything, caffeine probably makes you a little less creative.
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Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one's training.
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Patience is eternal genius.
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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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Genius, with all its pride in its own strength, is but a dependent quality, and cannot put forth its whole powers nor claim all its honors without an amount of aid from the talents and labors of others which it is difficult to calculate.
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The words of genius have a wider meaning than the thought that prompted them.
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How dearly, at one time, and how cheaply at another, does Genius purchase immortal fame!
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The wardrobe guy of Blow was a genius. He was so tapped into that period and he brought me the ugliest things I'd ever seen and then they were somehow beautiful.
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[David] Bowie had a genius for continual change himself, reinventing his sound and his image throughout the decades. Each album seemed to find Bowie in a different persona, with a new sound to match his new look.
