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"Genius without wisdom is like a plane without wings, it will navigate the runway but it will never know the sky."
"This was genius at close quarters, and genius had that something above normal in it that was a great strain upon the ordinary mind and feeling. All five were different from each other, yet each had that curious quality of burning intensity, the single-mindedness of purpose that made such a terrifying impression. She did not know whether it were a quality of brain or rather a quality of outlook, of intensity. But each of them, she thought, was in his or her way a passionate idealist."
"Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one."
"A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression."
"Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one."
"UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity."
Explore more quotes by Ken Burns
"I have made all my films for my children with the exception of my first film because my oldest daughter wasn't born when I was making the film about the Brooklyn Bridge."
"I record all of my music with authentic instruments in a studio before we start editing, doing many, many versions. The music shapes the film as we edit so it has an organic relationship to the content."
"One of the things I really like about Ford's films is how there is always a focus on the way characters live, and not just the male heroes."
"You can learn as much about the history from reading about the present as you can vice versa, that is learning about the present through history, which is what I do for a living."
"I think my expectations for myself are much more severe and much more direct. You can't work on a film for six years without being your own toughest critic. So you can't really be distracted by the expectations based on your previous performance."
"You need, as a historian, essential triangulation from your subject and the only way you get that triangulation is through time."
"To say that an artist sells out means that an artist is making a conscious choice to compromise his music, to to weaken his music for the sake of commercial gain."
"I am passionately interested in understanding how my country works. And if you want to know about this thing called the United States of America you have to know about the Civil War."
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