Genius Quotes
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There is only one proved method of assisting the advancement of pure science-that of picking men of genius, backing them heavily, and leaving them to direct themselves.
James Bryant Conant -
Irony can elude the genius among us, sometimes.
Berkeley Breathed
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If you are a genius, you'll make your own rules, but if not - and the odds are against it - go to your desk no matter what your mood, face the icy challenge of the paper - write.
J. B. Priestley -
What is Genius?- To aspire to a lofty aim and to will the means to that aim.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
The genius of Man in our time has gone into jet-propulsion, atom-splitting, penicillin-curing, etc. There is none over for works of imagination; of spiritual insight or mystical enlightenment. I asked for bread and was given a tranquilliser.
Malcolm Muggeridge -
Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
William James -
The moment of recognizing your own lack of talent is a flash of genius.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec -
You're called a genius by people, and then your whole life you become the part.
Brian Wilson
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For me, my core genius lies in the area of teaching and motivating. I love to do it, I do it well, and people report that they get great value from it. Another core genius is compiling and writing books. Along with my co-author Mark Victor Hansen and others, I have written, co-authored, compiled and edited more than 200 books.
Jack Canfield -
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.
Allen Neuharth -
I'm probably the only guy who worked for (Casey) Stengel before and after he was a genius.
Warren Spahn -
If the birth of a genius resembles that of an idiot, the end of a Havana Corona resembles that of a 5-cent cigar.
Sacha Guitry -
All this is rather pretentious and fey to even talk about, but Flannery O'Connor sat down to write stories. The rest of us, some of us, don't have that kind of wit and genius. We don't do that. We sit down and have some accidents.
Padgett Powell -
I haven't checked, but I highly suspect that chickens evolved from an egg-laying ancestor, which would mean that there were, in fact, eggs before there were chickens. Genius.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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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.
Oscar Wilde -
Am I crazy or am I a genius? I don't think I'm either.
John Lennon The Beatles -
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.
Lady Gregory -
It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or do in a circumstance unexpected by other people: it is reflection, meditation.
Andrew Roberts -
Great genius you already have. The super conscious mind is invariably triggered by definition, and by decisiveness.
Brian Tracy -
The US patent system adds the fuel of interest to the fire of genius in the discovery and production of new and useful things.
Abraham Lincoln
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It's a weird thing where, especially in jazz, you have to totally mention cutting sessions and people one-upping each other and people being super, super tough on each other. And out of it emerge these genius musicians.
Damien Chazelle -
Genius consists not in making great discoveries, but in seeing the connection between small discoveries.
Walker Percy -
Classical education has deformed everything, and has imposed upon us as geniuses men of correct, facile talent, who follow the beaten track.
Emile Zola -
The first thing the world does to a genius is to make him lose all his youth.
Clarence Day