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In the silence between instincts and deliberate thought, pure talent flickers into life, unraveling solutions like an oracle.
Author:
Dakota Lake
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Spontaneous skill mastery often emerges from the spark of silent desperation, shimmering bright where chaos meanders; it's checkmate played against doubt rather than ignorance of practice.
Author:
Eliana Strauss
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Everyone is a genius, but if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.
Author:
Albert Einstein
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Great minds think alike, but the greatest minds think differently.
Author:
Albert Einstein
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First have being in your mind. Make real in your mind then bring that being into reality. The genius is he who sees what is not yet and causes it to come to be.
Author:
Peter Zarlenga
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They shaved my head, eyebrows. This is not a sci-fi picture. It's not a fantasy picture. You're dealing with something that's supposed to be in reality. But we had a genius makeup artist.
Author:
Rick Yune
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If beauty isn't genius it usually signals at least a high level of animal cunning.
Author:
Peter York
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Mike gets to play four roles this time, if we ever did it again, he will play my role as well. He is a comic genius, everyone wants to be in this movie, let's hope that everyone will wish to see it as well.
Author:
Michael York
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The person who figures out how to harness the collective genius of his or her organization is going to blow the competition away.
Author:
Walter Wriston
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How are men to be secured in any rights without instruction; how to be secured in the equal exercise of those rights without equality of instruction? By instruction understand me to mean knowledge - just knowledge; not talent, not genius, not inventive mental powers.
Author:
Frances Wright
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And we owe science to the combined energies of individual men of genius, rather than to any tendency to progress inherent in civilization.
Author:
Chauncey Wright
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He's a tremendous guy. And what's more, he's virtually a genius in the field of management.
Author:
John Wozniak
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It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work.
Author:
Virginia Woolf
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There has been a time on earth when poets had been young and dead and famous - and were men. But now the poet as the tragic child of grandeur and destiny had changed. The child of genius was a woman, now, and the man was gone.
Author:
Tom Wolfe
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The only genius that's worth anything is the genius for hard work.
Author:
Kathleen Winsor
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Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine.
Author:
Edmund Wilson
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Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.
Author:
Bern Williams
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An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in the dark - that is critical genius.
Author:
Billy Wilder
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The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
Author:
Oscar Wilde
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Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.
Author:
Oscar Wilde
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The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people.
Author:
Walt Whitman
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There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.
Author:
Walt Whitman
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Common sense is genius in homespun.
Author:
Alfred Whitehead
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Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
Author:
E. White
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I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring.
Author:
James Whistler
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Everybody denies I am a genius - but nobody ever called me one!
Author:
Orson Welles
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I have never been an innovator, a creative genius.
Author:
Lawrence Welk
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The genius which runs to madness is no longer genius.
Author:
Otto Weininger
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All genius is a conquering of chaos and mystery.
Author:
Otto Weininger
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Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.
Author:
Simone Weil
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Genius is never understood in its own time.
Author:
Bill Watterson
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Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius.
Author:
An Wang
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Everything I do, I feel is genius. Whether it is or it isn't.
Author:
Rufus Wainwright
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The truth is that our race survived ignorance; it is our scientific genius that will do us in.
Author:
Stephen Vizinczey
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Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.
Author:
Leonardo Vinci
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Andy Warhol is the only genius I've ever known with an I.Q. of 60.
Author:
Gore Vidal
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Men of genius sometimes accomplish most when they work the least, for they are thinking out inventions and forming in their minds the perfect idea that they subsequently express with their hands.
Author:
Giorgio Vasari
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In our own time it has been seen... that simple children, roughly brought up in the wilderness, have begun to draw by themselves, impelled by their own natural genius, instructed solely by the example of these beautiful paintings and sculptures of Nature.
Author:
Giorgio Vasari
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Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes.
Author:
Edgard Varese
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To see things in the seed, that is genius.
Author:
Lao Tzu
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I mean, Scorsese's a genius, and that's one way of shooting.
Author:
Stanley Tucci
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Every man is a potential genius until he does something.
Author:
Herbert Tree
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Buddy Rich is one of a kind; he's a genius, and that's all there is to it.
Author:
Mel Torme
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The genius of democracies is seen not only in the great number of new words introduced but even more in the new ideas they express.
Author:
Alexis Tocqueville
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I was more independent than any farmer in Concord, for I was not anchored to a house or farm, but could follow the bent of my genius, which is a very crooked one, every moment.
Author:
Henry Thoreau
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The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected.
Author:
Henry Thoreau
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Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.
Author:
Henry Thoreau
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Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.
Author:
Joe Theismann
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But I don't think I have any particular talent for prediction, because when you have three or four elements in hand, you don't have to be a genius to reach certain conclusions.
Author:
Antonio Tabucchi
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I'm all in favor of the democratic principle that one idiot is as good as one genius, but I draw the line when someone takes the next step and concludes that two idiots are better than one genius.
Author:
Leo Szilard
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When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
Author:
Jonathan Swift
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I figured if the plane goes down, I'll go with a great genius and will always have my name connected with his.
Author:
Matthew Sweet
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I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the variety of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust.
Author:
Igor Stravinsky
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During this earlier period of his activity Voltaire seems to have been trying - half unconsciously, perhaps - to discover and to express the fundamental quality of his genius.
Author:
Lytton Strachey
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In sheer genius Pascal ranks among the very greatest writers who have lived upon this earth. And his genius was not simply artistic; it displayed itself no less in his character and in the quality of his thought.
Author:
Lytton Strachey
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The genius of the French language, descended from its single Latin stock, has triumphed most in the contrary direction - in simplicity, in unity, in clarity, and in restraint.
Author:
Lytton Strachey
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Jim Carrey, a comic genius, has a harder time overcoming the public's desire for him to be funny simply because he's so good at it.
Author:
Ben Stiller
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A man possesses talent; genius possesses the man.
Author:
Isaac Stern
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All the genius I have lies in this; when I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly.
Author:
Alexander Stephens
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The ordinary man casts a shadow in a way we do not quite understand. The man of genius casts light.
Author:
George Steiner
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It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.
Author:
Gertrude Stein
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Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.
Author:
Madame Stael
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Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.
Author:
Madame Stael
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The poets' scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death.
Author:
Edmund Spenser
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The failure of women to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block the way of all women of talent and ambition for intellectual achievement.
Author:
Anna Spencer
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Can a woman become a genius of the first class? Nobody can know unless women in general shall have equal opportunity with men in education, in vocational choice, and in social welcome of their best intellectual work for a number of generations.
Author:
Anna Spencer
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The genius of our institutions is democratic - baseball is a democratic game.
Author:
Al Spalding
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Governmental aid is a drawback rather than an assistance, as, although it may facilitate in the routine of artistic production, it is an impediment to the development of true artistic genius.
Author:
John Sousa
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The world is not so much in need of new thoughts as that when thought grows old and worn with usage it should, like current coin, be called in, and, from the mint of genius, reissued fresh and new.
Author:
Alexander Smith
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He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. The dread of censure is the death of genius.
Author:
William Simms
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Genius is the very eye of intellect and the wing of thought; it is always in advance of its time, and is the pioneer for the generation which it precedes.
Author:
William Simms
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The dread of criticism is the death of genius.
Author:
William Simms
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This homage has been rendered not to me - for the Polish soil is fertile and does not lack better writers than me - but to the Polish achievement, the Polish genius.
Author:
Henryk Sienkiewicz
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Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.
Author:
Fulton Sheen
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Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
Author:
Lucius Seneca
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There is no great genius without some touch of madness.
Author:
Lucius Seneca
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Talent works, genius creates.
Author:
Robert Schumann
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Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.
Author:
Arthur Schopenhauer
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The genius of impeachment lay in the fact that it could punish the man without punishing the office.
Author:
Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
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There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what he himself is who does not know his fellow men, especially the most prominent one of the community, the master's master, the genius of the age.
Author:
Karl Schlegel
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Every complete man has his genius. True virtue is genius.
Author:
Karl Schlegel
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Reason is mechanical, wit chemical, and genius organic spirit.
Author:
Karl Schlegel
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Every true genius is bound to be naive.
Author:
Friedrich Schiller
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I wouldn't say jamie is an evil genius. I'm not sure he's evil and I'm not sure he's a genius.
Author:
Adam Savage
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Don't forget that compared to a grownup person every baby is a genius. Think of the capacity to learn! The freshness, the temperament, the will of a baby a few months old!
Author:
May Sarton
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For 37 years I've practiced 14 hours a day, and now they call me a genius.
Author:
Pablo Sarasate
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Creative genius is a divinely bestowed gift which is the coronation of the few.
Author:
Margaret Sangster
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A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.
Author:
Carl Sandburg
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Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.
Author:
George Sand
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But at the time when he wrote, Englishmen, with the rarest exceptions, wrote only in French or Latin; and when they began to write in English, a man of genius, to interpret and improve on him, was not found for a long time.
Author:
George Saintsbury
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No one turns down a film with Woody; it's something everyone wants in their career as an important moment. He's such a comedic genius, without question, so I was thrilled.
Author:
Mark Rydell
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The function of a genius is not to give new answers, but to pose new questions which time and mediocrity can resolve.
Author:
Hugh Roper
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The modes of expression of men of genius differ as much as their souls, and it is impossible to say that in some among them, drawing and color are better or worse than in others.
Author:
Auguste Rodin
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We can all be geniuses because one definition of genius is the infinite capacity for taking pains.
Author:
Knute Rockne
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Passion is the genesis of genius.
Author:
Tony Robbins
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UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity.
Author:
Dennis Ritchie
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Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.
Author:
Arthur Rimbaud
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Could we teach taste or genius by rules, they would be no longer taste and genius.
Author:
Joshua Reynolds
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One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.
Author:
Man Ray
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Only a genius can play a fool.
Author:
Michael Rapaport
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It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
Author:
Marcus Quintilian
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If there be anything that can be called genius, it consists chiefly in ability to give that attention to a subject which keeps it steadily in the mind, till we have surveyed it accurately on all sides.
Author:
Robert Quillen
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Like many businessmen of genius he learned that free competition was wasteful, monopoly efficient. And so he simply set about achieving that efficient monopoly.
Author:
Mario Puzo
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There are plenty of clever young writers. But there is too much genius, not enough talent.
Author:
J. Priestley
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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.
Author:
J. Priestley
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Genius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has been pried from its hands and the blood has been cleaned up.
Author:
Terry Pratchett
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Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
Author:
Ezra Pound
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A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
Author:
Ezra Pound
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Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.
Author:
Alexander Pope
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One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.
Author:
Alexander Pope
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I also think if you're an actor and you can improvise, when you go on an audition and you can improvise you're just a genius. If you can, you know, take a Tide commercial and you can just say one funny line that's not in the commercial they think you're a genius.
Author:
Amy Poehler
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The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.
Author:
Edgar Poe
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Almost all the noblest things that have been achieved in the world, have been achieved by poor men; poor scholars, poor professional men, poor artisans and artists, poor philosophers, poets, and men of genius.
Author:
Albert Pike
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Every positive value has its price in negative terms... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.
Author:
Pablo Picasso
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What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again, from zero.
Author:
Pablo Picasso
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The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.
Author:
Pablo Picasso
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Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.
Author:
Charles Peguy
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Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.
Author:
Charles Peguy
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God gives talent. Work transforms talent into genius.
Author:
Anna Pavlova
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No one can arrive from being talented alone, work transforms talent into genius.
Author:
Anna Pavlova
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First, make yourself a reputation for being a creative genius. Second, surround yourself with partners who are better than you are. Third, leave them to go get on with it.
Author:
David Ogilvy
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There are very few men of genius in advertising agencies. But we need all we can find. Almost without exception they are disagreeable. Don't destroy them. They lay golden eggs.
Author:
David Ogilvy
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The meetings of the legislature at Springfield then first brought together that splendid group of young men of genius whose phenomenal careers and distinguished services have given Illinois fame in the history of the nation.
Author:
John Nicolay
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I like the idea of taking a true classic written by a true genius and destroying it essentially! I like the idea of bringing it down to earth a bit - and even a bit lower than that.
Author:
Randy Newman
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In this world no one rules by love; if you are but amiable, you are no hero; to be powerful, you must be strong, and to have dominion you must have a genius for organizing.
Author:
John Newman
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If my impressions are correct, our educational planing mill cuts down all the knots of genius, and reduces the best of the men who go through it to much the same standard.
Author:
Simon Newcomb
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The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make the rest of us wonder at the possibility that we might be missing something.
Author:
Gamal Nasser
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All of a sudden, those few pages of script that he had shown me with the weird images I could visualize all of that in my brain, and I knew that there was this mad little genius at work here and I really wanted to do the film.
Author:
Jack Nance
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Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
Author:
Vladimir Nabokov
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I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child.
Author:
Vladimir Nabokov
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It's a pity one can't imagine what one can't compare to anything. Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
Author:
Vladimir Nabokov
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Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
Author:
Wolfgang Mozart
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But mathematics is the sister, as well as the servant, of the arts and is touched by the same madness and genius.
Author:
Marston Morse
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No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.
Author:
Christopher Morley
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Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam of light on those that are without, while the inhabitant sits in darkness.
Author:
Hannah More
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It is always well to get near to men of genius.
Author:
William Moody
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Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character had abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and courage which it contained.
Author:
John Mill
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The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.
Author:
John Mill
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Genius is eternal patience.
Author:
Michelangelo
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Genius is always accompanied by enthusiasm.
Author:
Bryant McGill
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The simplest of women are wonderful liars who can extricate themselves from the most difficult dilemmas with a skill bordering on genius.
Author:
Guy Maupassant
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When I edit, I'm not from the school of Hello, I'm a genius, so everybody shut up. I'm from the school of Let's play it once in front of an audience, and then I'll tell you where it is going.
Author:
Garry Marshall
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Genius is not perfected, it is deepened. It does not so much interpret the world as fertilize itself with it.
Author:
Andre Malraux
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The capacity of the female mind for studies of the highest order cannot be doubted, having been sufficiently illustrated by its works of genius, of erudition, and of science.
Author:
James Madison
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Genius of a kind has always been with me; an empty heart that has taken on a certain wooden quality; an excellent, strong woman's body and a pitiably starved soul.
Author:
Mary MacLane
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I am a genius. Then it amused me to keep saying so, but now it does not. I expected to be happy sometime. Now I know I shall never be.
Author:
Mary MacLane
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You may think me crude, and probably I am crude, but I am not so crude as I was, for I am clever enough to see that the girl of nineteen who thought herself a genius was only an unusual girl writing her heart out.
Author:
Mary MacLane
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We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age.
Author:
Thomas Macaulay
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Every man of genius is considerably helped by being dead.
Author:
Robert Lynd
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Clinton's fakery was so deft and deeply ingrained that it was impossible to tell where it ended and the real Bill Clinton began. This constituted a kind of political genius.
Author:
Rich Lowry
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Freedom is the only law which genius knows.
Author:
James Lowell
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Churchill was one of the few men I have met who even in the flesh give me the impression of genius. George Bernard Shaw is another. It is amusing to know that each thinks the other is overrated.
Author:
David Low
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Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.
Author:
Henry Longfellow
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Genius is one of the many forms of insanity.
Author:
Cesare Lombroso
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Good sense travels on the well-worn paths; genius, never. And that is why the crowd, not altogether without reason, is so ready to treat great men as lunatics.
Author:
Cesare Lombroso
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The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities.
Author:
Cesare Lombroso
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Mike Patton is a genius... It is definitely the hardest music I've ever played.
Author:
Dave Lombardo
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The definition of genius, really, should be that that person can do what the rest of us have to learn how to do.
Author:
James Lipton
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Olivier was another case of a genius, who couldn't understand why anybody would have any trouble doing this, because for him it came so easily.
Author:
James Lipton
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Industry is a better horse to ride than genius.
Author:
Walter Lippmann
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The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.
Author:
Walter Lippmann
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I think you're all mad. But that's part and parcel of being an artistic genius, isn't it?
Author:
Charles Lint
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My evil genius Procrastination has whispered me to tarry 'til a more convenient season.
Author:
Mary Lincoln
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Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.
Author:
Abraham Lincoln
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Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old - old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.
Author:
Rush Limbaugh
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Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.
Author:
Georg Lichtenberg
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There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade, before it has done so itself.
Author:
Georg Lichtenberg
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The burning of an author's books, imprisonment for opinion's sake, has always been the tribute that an ignorant age pays to the genius of its time.
Author:
Joseph Lewis
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Adlai Stevenson has a genius for saying the right thing, at the right time, to the wrong people.
Author:
Joe Lewis
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Genius is rarely able to give any account of its own processes.
Author:
George Lewes
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Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into beauty like a reed.
Author:
George Lewes
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There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
Author:
Oscar Levant
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There is no off position on the genius switch.
Author:
David Letterman
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The problem with Ireland is that it's a country full of genius, but with absolutely no talent.
Author:
Hugh Leonard
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I am a genius who has written poems that will survive with the best of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Keats.
Author:
Irving Layton
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When you step back and watch people, you realize that we use every single body part. Movement, dance - I find it genius because it's ultimate expression, really.
Author:
Jude Law
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Neatness begets order; but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship.
Author:
Johann Lavater
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He who seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed word can strike dumb the loquacious, is a genius or a hero.
Author:
Johann Lavater
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Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence.
Author:
Johann Lavater
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Who in the same given time can produce more than others has vigor; who can produce more and better, has talents; who can produce what none else can, has genius.
Author:
Johann Lavater
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Taste is the fundamental quality which sums up all the other qualities. It is the nec plus ultra of the intelligence. Through this alone is genius the supreme health and balance of all the faculties.
Author:
Isidore Lautreamont
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I was induced to establish several orders of merit, from conviction that emulation, well directed, becomes a useful servant; and, that the latent genius of some youth is more easily brought into action this way, than by the more sordid gratification of self-interest.
Author:
Joseph Lancaster
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Man is a genius when he is dreaming.
Author:
Akira Kurosawa
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Genius is an overused word. The world has known only about a half dozen geniuses. I got only fairly near.
Author:
Fritz Kreisler
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Genius can probably run on ahead and seek out new ways. But the good artists who follow after genius - and I count myself among these - have to restore the lost connection once more.
Author:
Kathe Kollwitz
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The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Author:
Arthur Koestler
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The only folk I can judge are people like Woody Allen who I think is a genius, largely because I think he has beaten the system. He has his own company, and his films are all his own ideas. It's his direction, and so it comes out the way he imagined it.
Author:
Nigel Kneale
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She was a genius, my mother.
Author:
Sally Kirkland
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Doorman - a genius who can open the door of your car with one hand, help you in with the other, and still have one left for the tip.
Author:
Dorothy Kilgallen
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Gene Roddenberry was a genius.
Author:
Persis Khambatta
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If we will maintain our hope and confidence in the genius of our people, they will work out this problem, and their ability and industry will bring us back to normal conditions.
Author:
Frank Kellogg
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Then I heard this genius teacher Stella Adler - I recommend you read anything you might find about her and if you have anyone interested in theatre, you get them one of her books.
Author:
Harvey Keitel
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The media works in sound bites. They can make you look like a genius or stupid.
Author:
Kato Kaelin
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Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.
Author:
Carl Jung
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A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
Author:
James Joyce
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Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.
Author:
Joseph Joubert
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Genius is a word too often tossed around in musical circles.
Author:
Stanley Jordan
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And indeed if you think you're a genius at something, what you achieve is very much according to your expectations; if you think you're no good, you're not going to get anywhere.
Author:
Diana Jones
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I do feel very strongly that this is one of the things which people need encouragement to sort out, because I have this very strong feeling that everybody is probably a genius at something, it's just a question of finding this.
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Diana Jones
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It's a lucky child that knows that they're a genius, unaimed and all that.
Author:
Diana Jones
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A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.
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Samuel Johnson
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It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for the rich fertility of American political invention.
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Lyndon Johnson
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Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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William James
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The essence of genius is to know what to overlook.
Author:
William James
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Genius is initiative on fire.
Author:
Holbrook Jackson
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Rising genius always shoots out its rays from among the clouds, but these will gradually roll away and disappear as it ascends to its steady luster.
Author:
Washington Irving
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In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous.
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Robert Ingersoll
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The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.
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Aldous Huxley
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Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.
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Victor Hugo
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Taste is the common sense of genius.
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Victor Hugo
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The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in his ideas.
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Victor Hugo
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Popular in our time, unpopular in his. So runs the stereotype of rejected genius.
Author:
Robert Hughes
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Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
Author:
Elbert Hubbard
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A host is like a general: calamities often reveal his genius.
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Horace
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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
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Horace
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Unless you are a genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible.
Author:
Anthony Hope
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Unless one is a genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible.
Author:
Anthony Hope
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Yesterday I was thinking about the whole idea of genius and creative people, and the notion that if you create some magical art, somehow that exempts you from having to pay attention to the small things.
Author:
Bell Hooks
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The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius.
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Oliver Holmes
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Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature.
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J. Holland
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Is it not in the most absolute simplicity that real genius plies its pinions the most wonderfully?
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E. Hoffmann
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The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category.
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Adolf Hitler
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All of us, who are members of the Germanic peoples, can be happy and thankful that once in thousands of years fate has given us, from among the Germanic peoples, such a genius, a leader, our Fuehrer Adolf Hitler, and you should be happy to be allowed to work with us.
Author:
Heinrich Himmler
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It will work. I am a marketing genius.
Author:
Paris Hilton
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Genius is not a possession of the limited few, but exists in some degree in everyone. Where there is natural growth, a full and free play of faculties, genius will manifest itself.
Author:
Robert Henri
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Genius is nothing but continued attention.
Author:
Claude Helvetius
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Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but, less by assimilation than by fiction.
Author:
Heinrich Heine
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Talent is a faculty that is highly developed, but genius commands all the faculties.
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Francis Hedge
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People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel.
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William Hazlitt
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Dandyism is a variety of genius.
Author:
William Hazlitt
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Rules and models destroy genius and art.
Author:
William Hazlitt
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Genius, like humanity, rusts for want of use.
Author:
William Hazlitt
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If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators.
Author:
William Hazlitt
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Genius is nothing more than common faculties refined to a greater intensity. There are no astonishing ways of doing astonishing things. All astonishing things are done by ordinary materials.
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Benjamin Haydon
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Nothing is so envied as genius, nothing so hopeless of attainment by labor alone. Though labor always accompanies the greatest genius, without the intellectual gift labor alone will do little.
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B. Hayden
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David Ortiz is a genius. He's incredible to watch. Over and over, he hits home runs that are simply transcendent.
Author:
Juliana Hatfield
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There is nothing in the genius of America more precious today than the spirit of religious and political tolerance in its application to our own people.
Author:
Paul Harris
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Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.
Author:
Franz Grillparzer
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Commerce changes the fate and genius of nations.
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Thomas Gray
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Genius not only diagnoses the situation but supplies the answers.
Author:
Robert Graves
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But I just know from experience that accent wise, even if you're an accent genius, crossing the Atlantic is the hardest thing in the world either way.
Author:
Hugh Grant
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The genius of the American system is that through freedom we have created extraordinary results from plain old ordinary people.
Author:
Phil Gramm
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It takes application, a fine sense of value, and a powerful community-spirit for a people to have serious leisure, and this has not been the genius of the Americans.
Author:
Paul Goodman
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Genius is the talent of a person who is dead.
Author:
Edmond Goncourt
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Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.
Author:
Samuel Goldwyn
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Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.
Author:
Oliver Goldsmith
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First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.
Author:
Johann Goethe
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Common sense is the genius of humanity.
Author:
Johann Goethe
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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.
Author:
William Godwin
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A science is any discipline in which the fool of this generation can go beyond the point reached by the genius of the last generation.
Author:
Max Gluckman
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The genius of the economic machine is in its ability to convert these indulgences into profitability. It converts desire into attention, a grip on our eyeballs and eardrums, which in turn can be marketed to advertisers.
Author:
Todd Gitlin
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My own experience is that a certain kind of genius among students is best brought out in bed.
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Allen Ginsberg
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Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius.
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Edward Gibbon
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Better beware of notions like genius and inspiration; they are a sort of magic wand and should be used sparingly by anybody who wants to see things clearly.
Author:
Jose Gasset
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God and Nature first made us what we are, and then out of our own created genius we make ourselves what we want to be. Follow always that great law. Let the sky and God be our limit and Eternity our measurement.
Author:
Marcus Garvey
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You don't have to be a political genius to sniff the smell of blood in the water.
Author:
Rich Galen
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I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.
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R. Fuller
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Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
Author:
R. Fuller
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The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency.
Author:
Margaret Fuller
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If a professional musician in a symphony orchestra is playing Beethoven. But this particular orchestra have played this particular chestnut so many times, they can play it in their sleep. Does the genius remain present in the music or not?
Author:
Robert Fripp
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Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
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Benjamin Franklin
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One of the strongest characteristics of genius is the power of lighting its own fire.
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John Foster
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Anybody can put things together that belong together. to put things together that don't go together, and make it work, that takes genius like Mozart's. Yet he is presented in the play Amadeus as a kind of silly boy whom the gods loved.
Author:
Lukas Foss
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To understand Mozart's contradictory qualities would indeed be to understand genius.
Author:
Lukas Foss
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The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius.
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E. Forster
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Genius is another word for magic, and the whole point of magic is that it is inexplicable.
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Margot Fonteyn
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I truly miss the genius of the music of John Lennon, as I'm sure everybody does.
Author:
Peter Fonda
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Judge the goodness of a book by the energy of the punches it has given you. I believe the greatest characteristic of genius, is, above all, force.
Author:
Gustave Flaubert
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Genius is immediate, but talent takes time.
Author:
Janet Flanner
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Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.
Author:
F. Fitzgerald
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Taste is the feminine of genius.
Author:
Edward Fitzgerald
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Nietzsche claimed that his genius was in his nostrils and I think that is a very excellent place for it to be.
Author:
Federico Fellini
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The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.
Author:
Bruce Feirstein
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The lucky person passes for a genius.
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Euripides
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Genius always finds itself a century too early.
Author:
Ralph Emerson
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Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.
Author:
Ralph Emerson
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When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
Author:
Ralph Emerson
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The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.
Author:
Ralph Emerson
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The first Matrix genius, the second one, what's up with the dancing? I haven't even seen the third one.
Author:
Ethan Embry
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Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy.
Author:
Havelock Ellis
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Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.
Author:
George Eliot
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You may try but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's form of genius in you, and to suffer the slavery of being a girl.
Author:
George Eliot
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Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
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Albert Einstein
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The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.
Author:
Albert Einstein
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His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.
Author:
Thomas Edison
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Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
Author:
Thomas Edison
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Genius is talent set on fire by courage.
Author:
Henry Dyke
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The genius of any slave system is found in the dynamics which isolate slaves from each other, obscure the reality of a common condition, and make united rebellion against the oppressor inconceivable.
Author:
Andrea Dworkin
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Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.
Author:
Lawrence Durrell
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Genius must be born, and never can be taught.
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John Dryden
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Time, place, and action may with pains be wrought, but genius must be born; and never can be taught.
Author:
John Dryden
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Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
Author:
Arthur Doyle
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Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.
Author:
Benjamin Disraeli
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Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.
Author:
Benjamin Disraeli
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Genius, when young, is divine.
Author:
Benjamin Disraeli
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Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.
Author:
Benjamin Disraeli
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Which is why, in my lieder concerts, I always strove, when possible, to sing only the works of a single composer, so that the audience could be gradually drawn into a particular creative genius' way of thinking, and could follow him.
Author:
Dietrich Dieskau
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Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth.
Author:
Denis Diderot
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Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.
Author:
Denis Diderot
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Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.
Author:
Denis Diderot
