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Genius Quotes
"It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity."
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"Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn."
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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."
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"To understand Europe, you have to be a genius - or French."
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"Everything I do, I feel is genius. Whether it is or it isn't."
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"Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them."
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"Genius is not perfected, it is deepened. It does not so much interpret the world as fertilize itself with it."
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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."
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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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"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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"Creative genius is a divinely bestowed gift which is the coronation of the few."
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"All the geniuses and greats are really just nerds with experience."
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"The genius of America is that we are still a land of undiscovered shores, and we are at our best when we open our hearts and allow the night winds to bring renewed visions of great deeds."
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"The genius of the Spanish people is exquisitely subtle, without being at all acute; hence there is so much humour and so little wit in their literature."
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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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"It is the union of independence and dependence of these branches - legislative, executive and judicial - and of the governmental functions possessed by each of them, that constitutes the marvellous genius of this unrivalled document."
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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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"I think you're all mad. But that's part and parcel of being an artistic genius, isn't it?"
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"I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him."
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"Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person."
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"I've learned any fool can write a bad ad, but it takes a real genius to keep his hands off a good one."
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"A genius is one who can do anything except make a living."
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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."
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"Genius is rarely able to give any account of its own processes."
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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."
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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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"The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities."
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"He's a tremendous guy. And what's more, he's virtually a genius in the field of management."
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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."
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"No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness."
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"Common sense is the genius of humanity."
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"Nor ought a genius less than his that writ attempt translation."
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"Because you are a great lord, you believe yourself to be a great genius. You took the trouble to be born, but no more."
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"I think that my interpretation of Italian was a lot more southern than what my husband cooks. You know, I grew up in Queens and in Brooklyn, and we - really, it's more southern. It's Naples and Sicily. It's heavier. It's over-spiced. And like most Americans, I thought spaghetti and meatballs was genius."
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"Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it."
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