Genius Quotes
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The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.
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I don't think Ireland has ever had a genius for the novel. Of course, there were plenty of Irish novels, but I don't think that was ever the natural means of expression for the Irish.
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Great eloquence we cannot get, except from human genius.
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Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius.
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A genius of comedy His talent brought joy and Laughter to all the world.
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Some people are better at maths than others: no one thinks you can be 'taught' to be a mathematical genius. And no one thinks of teaching, in that context, as a kind of forcing of the will. But there seems to be an idea of writing as an intuitive pastime which is being dishonestly subjected to counterintuitive methods.
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Many men of genius must arise before a particular man of genius can appear.
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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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Intelligence is not creative; judgment is not creative. If a sculptor is nothing but skill and mind, his hands will be without genius.
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I was a 'Glee' fan before I joined the show! Since my background is musical theater, it was exciting to see a TV show that incorporated music so much and in such a genius way.
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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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Genius ... is necessarily intolerant of fetters.
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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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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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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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The more obscure our tastes, the greater the proof of our 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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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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She was a genius, my mother.
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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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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.
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Pun was just a natural-born genius with music, and he basically taught me so many tricks on how to make better music, even though I was the one that discovered him. He was so far advanced than me; he taught me a lot.
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Alfred Nobel regretted that his invention, dynamite, was converted to degrading use, hence his creation of the Nobel Prize, as the humanist counter to the destructive power of his genius.
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Poetry is the fiery index to the genius of the age.
