Genius Quotes
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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.
Eric Weiner
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To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius.
Joyce Cary
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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.
Gary Louris
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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.
Michael Eric Dyson
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When a man of genius appears in the world, it is immediately recognized by the fact that all the blockheads join forces against him.
Jonathan Swift
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Follow a trail of bold mistakes and at the end of them you will find a genius.
Roy H. Williams
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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.
Gerard Way
My Chemical Romance
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His judgement demonstrates that one can be a genius and understand nothing of an art that is not one's own.
Victor Hugo
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Critics are notoriously liberal with their use of the term 'genius'.
Steve Earle
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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!"
Bel Kaufman
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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.
Marcel Proust
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Genius and madness have something in common: both live in a world that is different from that which exists for everyone else.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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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.
Soren Kierkegaard
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There is the myth that writing books for children is easier than writing books for grownups, whereas we know that truly great books for children are works of genius, whether it's 'Alice in Wonderland' or the 'Gruffalo' or 'Northern Lights.' When it's a great book, it's a great book, whether it's for children or not.
Michael Morpurgo
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When you drink coffee, you become very focused, and in fact, the key to creative genius is to be defocused.
Eric Weiner
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The difference between insanity and genius is measured only by success and failure.
Masashi Kishimoto
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The ordinary manner of spending their time, is the only way of judging of people's inclination and genius.
Ellin Devis
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There has never been any great genius without a spice of madness.
Seneca the Younger
