Genius Quotes
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Genius is lonely without the surrounding presence of a people to inspire it.
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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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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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My father was a management genius. But what I really wanted was a dad.
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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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Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.
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Any fool can make something complicated. It takes a genius to make it simple.
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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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It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
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What makes a genius? The ability to see. To see what? The butterfly in a caterpillar, the eagle in an egg, the saint in a selfish person, life in death, unity in separation, God in the human and human in God and suffering as the form in which the incomprehensibility of God himself appears.
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Sleeping is the height of genius.
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Only when Genius is married to Science can the highest results be produced.
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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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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 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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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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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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Genius may be almost defined as the faculty of acquiring poverty.
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If I could explain golf, I'd be a genius.
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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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A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
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Talent is the ability to say things well, but genius is the ability to, well, say things.
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Talent does whatever it wants to do. Genius does only what it can.
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Few of the great tragedies of history were created by the village idiot, and many by the village genius.
