Genius Quotes
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Many men of genius must arise before a particular man of genius can appear.
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People either think I'm this totally savage, idiot-savant genius guy who's lucked out or they think I'm a super-manipulative crafty businessman, this kind of MBA guy who's spotted a gap in the market and knows how to create a product for it. It's flattering, but I've not got that much of a gameplan.
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Foucault's genius is to go down to the little dramas, dress them in facts hardly anyone else has noticed, and turn these stage settings into clues to a hitherto un-thought series of confrontations out of which, he contends, the orderly structure of society is composed.
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Let the minor genius go his light way and enjoy his life - the great nature cannot so live, he is never really in holiday mood, even though he often plucks flowers by the wayside and ties them into knots and garlands like little children and lays out on a sunny morning.
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It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
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She was a genius, my mother.
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Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius.
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Holy Joy were a cult '80s band led by the wonderful songwriting genius that is Johny Brown.
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The genius of vinyl is that it allows - commands! - us to put our fingerprints all over that history: to blend and chop and reconfigure it, mock and muse upon it, backspin and skip through it.
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There exists no more repulsive and desolate creature in the world than the man who has evaded his genius and who now looks furtively to left and right, behind him and all about him. ... He is wholly exterior, without kernel, a tattered, painted bag of clothes.
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Great eloquence we cannot get, except from human genius.
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Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius... he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much.
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Genius is no more than childhood recaptured at will, childhood equipped now with man's physical means to express itself, and with the analytical mind that enables it to bring order into the sum of experience, involuntarily amassed.
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Necessity is the spur of genius.
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You are a potential genius; there is no problem you cannot solve, and no answer you cannot find somewhere.
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The more obscure our tastes, the greater the proof of our genius.
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A people so individual in its genius, so tenacious in love or hate, so captivating in its nobler moods.
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Poetry is the fiery index to the genius of the age.
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I'm no advertising genius. I found that if you deliver news and information to the consumer, or the reader, then the advertisers will follow to reach those readers.
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The buckyball, with sixty carbon atoms, is the most symmetrical form the carbon atom can take. Carbon in its nature has a genius for assembling into buckyballs. The perfect nanotube, that is, the nanotube that the carbon atom naturally wants to make and makes most often, is exactly large enough that one buckyball can roll right down the center.
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The golden hour of invention must terminate like other hours, and when the man of genius returns to the cares, the duties, the vexations, and the amusements of life, his companions behold him as one of themselves - the creature of habits and infirmities.
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A man of genius is unbearable, unless he possesses at least two things besides: gratitude and purity.
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You have killed my love. You used to stir my imagination. Now you don't even stir my curiosity. You simply produce no effect. I loved you because you were marvelous, because you had genius and intellect, because you realized the dreams of great poets and gave shape and substance to the shadows of art. You have thrown it all away. You are shallow and stupid.
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When you think you've got hold of a genius ... you can't be sure whether it's a spark of the divine fire or a mere flash in the pan.
