Genius Quotes
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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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The only term I won't accept is "genius."
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It is easy to be seen as either a genius or a crank. If you have a Ph.D., at least you somewhat lower the chances that you will be seen as a crank.
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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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We need to develop the intuitive capacities of the brain that some geniuses have manifested over humanity's lengthy history.
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Genius may be almost defined as the faculty of acquiring poverty.
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Only when Genius is married to Science can the highest results be produced.
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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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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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Patience is eternal genius.
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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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It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
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It is not the genius at the top giving directions that makes people great. It is great people that make the guy at the top look like a genius.
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How dearly, at one time, and how cheaply at another, does Genius purchase immortal fame!
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When I was about twelve I used to think I must be a genius, but nobody's noticed. If there is such a thing as a genius, I am one, and if there isn't I don't care.
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Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one's training.
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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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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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If I could explain golf, I'd be a genius.
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To forgive is wisdom, to forget 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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Critics are notoriously liberal with their use of the term 'genius'.
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Genius has no brother.
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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.
