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Genius Quotes
"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."
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"Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them."
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"The difference between being able to understand something and inventing it in the first place... is called genius."
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"You don't have to be a political genius to sniff the smell of blood in the water."
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"No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does."
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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."
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"Susceptibility to the highest forces is the highest genius."
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"Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but, less by assimilation than by fiction."
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"Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence."
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"A genius knows how to make himself easily understood without being obvious about it."
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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."
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"As far as me knowing if Frank was a genius - in those days, I thought Einstein was the only genius around."
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"I am the farthest thing from a computer genius."
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"Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius."
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"Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped."
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"Creative genius is a divinely bestowed gift which is the coronation of the few."
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"Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought."
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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."
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"The genius of the American system is that through freedom we have created extraordinary results from plain old ordinary people."
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"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."
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"To understand Europe, you have to be a genius - or French."
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"Common sense is the genius of humanity."
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"Unless you are a genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible."
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"I mean, Scorsese's a genius, and that's one way of shooting."
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"Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day."
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"All the geniuses and greats are really just nerds with experience."
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"Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius."
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"Common sense is genius in homespun."
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"It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity."
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"The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers."
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"All the genius I have lies in this; when I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly."
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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."
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"Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one."
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"Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it."
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