Genius Quotes
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Some have the temperament and tastes of genius, without its creative power. They feel acutely, but express tamely.
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Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.
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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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The ordinary manner of spending their time, is the only way of judging of people's inclination and genius.
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The source of genius is imagination alone.
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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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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 most profitable and praiseworthy genius in the world is untiring industry.
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It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
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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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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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Even the brain, that most delicate and complex of all known organs, is not merely a lot of neurons added together. While a genius must have more of the gray matter than a sparrow, the idiot may have just as much as the genius. The difference between them must be explained in terms of how those substances are organized.
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Childhood and genius have the same master organ in common - inquisitiveness.
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Critics are notoriously liberal with their use of the term 'genius'.
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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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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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Few of the great tragedies of history were created by the village idiot, and many by the village genius.
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Most of the things I do are misunderstood. Hey, after all, being misunderstood is the fate of all true geniuses, is it not?
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To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius.
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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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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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There is no such thing as an evil genius, as evil in it's self is stupidity.
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I so owed Arianna, that undead little genius.
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All the geniuses I ever met were so just part of the time. To qualify, you only have to be great once, you know. Once when it matters.