Genius Quotes
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I'm like a child genius, without being a child or a genius.
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Genius is a potential that lives within you and every other human being. You have many moments of genius in your lifetime. These are the times when you have a uniquely brilliant idea and implement it even if only you are aware of how fantastic it is.
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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.
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Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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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.
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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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From the point of view of literature Mr. Kipling is a genius who drops his aspirates. From the point of view of life, he is a reporter who knows vulgarity better than any one has ever known it.
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You're called a genius by people, and then your whole life you become the part.
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The only way you can get good, unless you're a genius, is to copy. That's the best thing. Just steal.
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Great genius you already have. The super conscious mind is invariably triggered by definition, and by decisiveness.
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Genius is finding the invisible link between things.
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Irony can elude the genius among us, sometimes.
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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.
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The moment of recognizing your own lack of talent is a flash of genius.
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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.
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Classical education has deformed everything, and has imposed upon us as geniuses men of correct, facile talent, who follow the beaten track.
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Genius consists not in making great discoveries, but in seeing the connection between small discoveries.
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I'm probably the only guy who worked for (Casey) Stengel before and after he was a genius.
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What is Genius?- To aspire to a lofty aim and to will the means to that aim.
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If the birth of a genius resembles that of an idiot, the end of a Havana Corona resembles that of a 5-cent cigar.
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The US patent system adds the fuel of interest to the fire of genius in the discovery and production of new and useful things.
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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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Discovery is new beginning. It is the origin of new rules that supplement, or even supplant, the old. Genius is creative. It is genius precisely because it disregards established routines, because it originates the novelties that will be the routines of the future. Were there rules for discovery, then discoveries would be mere conclusions.
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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.
