Genius Quotes
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Genius and madness have something in common: both live in a world that is different from that which exists for everyone else.
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The twentieth century saw an amazing development of scholarship and criticism in the humanities, carried out by people who were more intelligent, better trained, had more languages, had a better sense of proportion, and were infinitely more accurate scholars and competent professional men than I. I had genius. No one else in the field known to me had quite that.
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How dearly, at one time, and how cheaply at another, does Genius purchase immortal fame!
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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.
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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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That genius is feeble which cannot hold its own before the masterpieces of the world.
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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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Follow a trail of bold mistakes and at the end of them you will find a 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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Genius. It is just attention to something specific. That's all it is. Law of Attraction makes it happen, and so anyone who gives attention to any subject for a period of time will evolve in the direction of that understanding.
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Ray Toro is a very eccentric, crazy genius type guy. I think he's a genius. He just got this thing at the VMA. The way he played, it makes you go 'Jesus!' He's really sweet, really kind of lovable. He's like a cartoon character.
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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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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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Genius can do much, but even genius falls short of the actuality of a single human life.
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A cretin can kill you just as efficiently as a genius, and usually a whole lot quicker because a cretin has no conscience.
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If anything, my problem is, I'm not a genius, it's just that I can write songs very quick. I have a lot of ideas, let's put it that way - I have too many ideas. And my problem is, I stockpile ideas and I get lazy and I don't finish them, and next thing I know, I'm looking around and I've got a hundred song ideas, but are any of them any good? I don't know.
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Genius does not only require superior knowledge and skill, but also superior patience.
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The Painter who seeks popularity in Art closes the door upon his own genius.
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When you drink coffee, you become very focused, and in fact, the key to creative genius is to be defocused.
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The difference between insanity and genius is measured only by success and failure.
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The world thinks eccentricity in great things is genius, but in small things, only crazy.
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To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius.
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Michael Joseph Jackson's genius was the ability to be the raw article himself - the real article himself. He is part of the African American people who were marginalized.
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Few of the great tragedies of history were created by the village idiot, and many by the village genius.
