Genius Quotes
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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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Talent does whatever it wants to do. Genius does only what it can.
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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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It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
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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 world thinks eccentricity in great things is genius, but in small things, only crazy.
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I've always been a big believer in the power of place. I believe that where we are affects who we are when it comes to happiness, spirituality, economics and creative 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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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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The unconscious self is the real genius. Your breathing goes wrong the moment your conscious self meddles with it.
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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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Similarly the men who produce works of genius are not those who live in the most delicate atmosphere, whose conversation is most brilliant, or their culture broadest, but those who have had the power, ceasing in a moment to live only for themselves, to make use of their personality as of a mirror.
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Genius is lonely without the surrounding presence of a people to inspire it.
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Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.
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I divide my time as follows: half the time I sleep, the other half I dream. I never dream when I sleep, for that would be a pity, for sleeping is the highest accomplishment of genius.
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Any fool can make something complicated. It takes a genius to make it simple.
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Genius may be almost defined as the faculty of acquiring poverty.
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Few of the great tragedies of history were created by the village idiot, and many by the village 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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J.M.W. Turner... He genuinely tried to create pictures that looked like other artists' pictures, but he always ended up filling them with his own fireworks... through his failure to mimic those whom he admired... he ended up realising his own genius and his own destiny.
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Sleeping is the height of genius.
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My father was a management genius. But what I really wanted was a dad.
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When a real genius appeares in this world, you'll know him by the fact that all the fools have allied against him.
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Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one's training.
