Genius Quotes
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Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one's training.
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A man who fears ridicule will never go far, for good or ill: he remains on this side of this talents, and even if he has genius, he is doomed to mediocrity.
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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.
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The world thinks eccentricity in great things is genius, but in small things, only crazy.
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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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Genius does not only require superior knowledge and skill, but also superior patience.
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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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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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To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius.
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Jesus was the greatest religious genius that ever lived.
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The difference between insanity and genius is measured only by success and failure.
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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.
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Genius is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose.
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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 genius is a person who is seeing further and probing deeper than other people has a different set of ethical valuations from their and has energy enough to give effect to this extra vision and its valuations in whatever manner best suits his or her...
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Critics are notoriously liberal with their use of the term 'genius'.
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When a real genius appeares in this world, you'll know him by the fact that all the fools have allied against him.
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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.
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Being a mathematical genius doesn't do you any favors as far as having something to say in music. You see every style as equal, and you want complicated music to devour.
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Genius is not only a what or a who, it is a where. It is grounded in a place every single time.
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Genius is fine for the ignition spark, but to get there someone has to see that the radiator doesn't leak and no tire is flat.
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Follow a trail of bold mistakes and at the end of them you will find a genius.
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Talent is full of thoughts, Genius is thought. Talent is a cistern, Genius a fountain.
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When you drink coffee, you become very focused, and in fact, the key to creative genius is to be defocused.
