Genius Quotes
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We have our little theory on all human and divine things. Poetry, the workings of genius itself, which, in all times, with one or another meaning, has been called Inspiration, and held to be mysterious and inscrutable, is no longer without its scientific exposition. The building of the lofty rhyme is like any other masonry or bricklaying: we have theories of its rise, height, decline and fall -- which latter, it would seem, is now near, among all people.
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Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one's training.
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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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The unconscious self is the real genius. Your breathing goes wrong the moment your conscious self meddles with it.
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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 only guaranteed way to be a genius is to surround yourself with idiots.
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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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Genius or fool, you don't live in the world alone. You can hide underground or you can build a wall around yourself, but somebody's going to come along and screw up the works.
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Critics are notoriously liberal with their use of the term 'genius'.
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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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The difference between insanity and genius is measured only by success and failure.
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The words of genius have a wider meaning than the thought that prompted them.
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For creation is not a change, but that dependence of the created existence on the principle from which it is instituted, and thus is of the genus of relation; whence nothing prohibits it being in the created as in the subject. Creation is thus said to be a kind of change, according to the way of understanding, insofar as our intellect accepts one and the same thing as not existing before and afterwards existing.
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Common sense is only a modification of talent. Genius is an exaltation of it. The difference is, therefore, in degree, not nature.
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Eggs Benedict is genius. It's eggs covered in eggs. I mean, come on, that person should be the president.
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A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
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That genius is feeble which cannot hold its own before the masterpieces of the world.
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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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One good thing about being a woman is we haven't too many examples yet of what a genius looks like. It could be me.
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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. 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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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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Talent is the ability to say things well, but genius is the ability to, well, say things.
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To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius.
