Genius Quotes
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Genius is in the idea. Impact, however, comes from action!
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Two per cent. is genius, and ninety-eight per cent. is hard work.
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Genius can do much, but even genius falls short of the actuality of a single human life.
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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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From the naturalistic point of view, all men are equal. There are only two exceptions to this rule of naturalistic equality: geniuses and idiots.
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Genius does not only require superior knowledge and skill, but also superior patience.
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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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Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.
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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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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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The world thinks eccentricity in great things is genius, but in small things, only crazy.
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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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How dearly, at one time, and how cheaply at another, does Genius purchase immortal fame!
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Talk not of genius baffled. Genius is master of man. Genius does what it must, and Talent does what it can.
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Genius is an intellect that has become unfaithful to its destiny.
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What is genius, anyway, if it isn't the ability to give an adequate response to a great challenge?
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When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
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Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
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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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Every family should have at least three children. Then if one is a genius the other two can support him.
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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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The only term I won't accept is "genius."
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Neurosis has an absolute genius for malingering. There is no illness which it cannot counterfeit perfectly. If it is capable of deceiving the doctor, how should it fail to deceive the patient.
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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.
