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Genius Quotes
"No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does."
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"It's a lucky child that knows that they're a genius, unaimed and all that."
40
"Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence."
39
"In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous."
39
"Unless you are a genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible."
39
"Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one."
38
"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."
38
"Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day."
38
"The eye of genius has always a plaintive expression, and its natural language is pathos."
38
"I am the farthest thing from a computer genius."
37
"You don't have to be a political genius to sniff the smell of blood in the water."
37
"I mean, Scorsese's a genius, and that's one way of shooting."
37
"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."
36
"Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright."
36
"Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it."
36
"Ismail Merchant was just the most seductive, passionate, outrageous, driven, genius of a man."
36
"We can all be geniuses because one definition of genius is the infinite capacity for taking pains."
35
"The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers."
35
"A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression."
35
"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."
35
"Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped."
35
"Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it."
35
"If for instance the sentiment possessing for the moment the empire of our mind is sorrow, will not the genius sharpen the sorrow and the sorrow purify the genius? Together, will they not be like a cut diamond for which language is only the wax on which they stamp their imprint? I believe that genius, thus awakened, has no need to seek out details, that it scarcely pauses to reflect, that it never thinks of unity: I believe that the details come naturally without search by the poet, that inspiration takes the place of reflection and as for unity, I think there is no unity so perfect as that which results from a heart filled with a single idea...The nature of genius is related to that of instinct; it's operation is both simple and marvelous."
35
"Like many businessmen of genius he learned that free competition was wasteful, monopoly efficient. And so he simply set about achieving that efficient monopoly."
35
"It is a great thing, indeed, to make a proper use of the poetical forms, as also of compounds and strange words. But the greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor. It is the one thing that cannot be learnt from others; and it is also a sign of genius, since a good metaphor implies an intuitive perception of the similarity in dissimilars."
35
"To understand Mozart's contradictory qualities would indeed be to understand genius."
34
"Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius."
34
"Genius, throughout history, has been found difficult to classify because it varies in amount: It's rare to find a genius in the context of the noun, but most people, if not all, have a bit of genius in them in the context of the adjective."
34
"Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but, less by assimilation than by fiction."
33
"As a bull market continues, almost anything you buy goes up. It makes you feel that investing in stocks is a very easy and safe and that you're a financial genius."
33
"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."
33
"A genius knows how to make himself easily understood without being obvious about it."
33
"Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one."
33
"Sometimes an act of common sense is indistinguishable from an act of genius."
33
"If you hype something and it succeeds, you're a genius - it wasn't a hype. If you hype it and it fails, then it was just a hype."
33
"The difference between being able to understand something and inventing it in the first place... is called genius."
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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."
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