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“Girls did that then knocked themselves out to support some mans notion of his own genius. What was Gavin doing to help pay the rent? Not much, though she suspected him of dealing pot on the side. ...”
“Genius and science have burst the limits of space, and few observations, explained by just reasoning, have unveiled the mechanism of the universe. Would it not also be glorious for man to burst the...”
“Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet.”
“You're a Genius all the time”
“And here we go creating great men out of artisans who happened to have stumbled on a way to improve electrical apparatus or pedal through Sweden on a bicycle! And we solicit great men to write book...”
“No, I don't admire the genius. But I admire and love the result of the genius's activity in the world, of which the great man is only the poor necessary tool, only, so to speak, the paltry awl to b...”
“There was never a great genius without a touch of madness.”
“You gleefully say, I just thought of something!, when in fact your brain performed an enormous amount of work before your moment of genius struck. When an idea is served up from behind the scenes, ...”
“Developing your unique thought to the level of being appreciated and adopted by the world - that's genius.”
“The true genius shudders at incompleteness imperfection and usually prefers silence to saying the something which is not everything that should be said.”
“Sometimes she arches away from me and wears a light halo of genius about her.”
“Genius is a sovereign power; it forms schools; it lays hold on the spirits of men, with irresistible might; and it exercises an immeasurable influence on the whole condition of human life. This sov...”
“PARAPHRASE: Genius is not that you are smarter than everyone else. It is that you are ready to receive the inspiration.”
“Henry held up his taco- formerly Vlad's- and grinned. " Little known fact, gentlemen. Tacos are the food of genius."pg248 Henry to Vlad & Joss”
“A genius is a grown-up that did not grow up.”
“The word genius was whispered into my ear the first things I ever Heard while I was still mewling in my crib, laughs Orson (Welles), so it never occured to me that I wasn't until middle age”
“The team must consist of three sorts of specialists, he says. Otherwise the revolution, whether in politics or the arts or the sciences or whatever, is sure to fail.The rarest of these specialists,...”
“One of her favorite lines was, "The difference between genius and stupidity s that genius has limits.”
“Some were brilliant bordering on genius. Others, genius bordering on madness”
“He's no idiot, in fact he's a genius... and that's as far from an idiot as you can get without reaching madness.”
