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Tag Name "Genius" (2059)

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A writer arrived at the monastery to write a book about the Master. People say you are a genius . Are you? he asked. You might say so. said the Master, none too modestly. And what makes one a genius? The ability to recognize. Recognize what? The butterfly in a caterpillar: the eagle in an egg the saint in a selfish human bein
Anthony de Mello
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There's a quote I love, the full version is a bastardisation of quotes from William Hutchison Murray and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, but it's about the importance of starting things - not completing or succeeding - but beginning. It ends: Anything you dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, magic and power in it. Begin it now!.
John Robins
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Most people don't find their creativity. There are more unsung geniuses that don't even know they have great talent.
Truman Capote
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Genius is subject to the same laws which regulate the production of cotton and molasses.
Thomas B. Macaulay
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Appreciation, whether of nature, or books, or art, or men, depends very much on temperament. What is beauty or genius or greatness to one, is far from being so to another.
Tryon Edwards
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With few exceptions, every major pop singer in the US during her generation has been touched in some way by her genius. It is Billie Holiday who was, and still remains, the greatest single musical influence on me. Lady Day is unquestionably the most important influence on American popular singing in the last twenty years.
Frank Sinatra
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There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
Oscar Levant
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Indulge, and to thy genius freely give, For not to live at ease is not to live.
Aulus Persius Flaccus
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The probability that a genius can do stupid things is much higher than the probability that a stupid can do genius things.
Mehmet Murat Ildan
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Even a genius has his questions.
Tupac Shakur
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Clinton's fakery was so deft and deeply ingrained that it was impossible to tell where it ended and the real Bill Clinton began. This constituted a kind of political genius.
Rich Lowry
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The family story tells, and it was told true, of my great-grandfather who begat eight genius children and bought twelve almost new grand pianos. He left a considerable estate when he died.
Anne Sexton
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The clever cannot catch the genius such an attempt is just an act of trying to catch the shadow of a flying bird!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
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Some very dull and sad people have genius though the world may not count it as such a genius for love, or for patience, or for prayer, maybe. We know the divine spark is here and there in the world: who shall say under what manifestations, or humble disguise!
Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchie
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An enamored amateur need not be a genius to stay out of the ruts he has never been trained in.
Daniel J. Boorstin
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If we stand for change, we can spark a popular movement with power, influence, magic and genius.
Van Jones
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Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright.
Van Wyck Brooks
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Genius lasts longer than Beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves.
Oscar Wilde
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God gives talent. Work transforms talent into genius.
Anna Pavlova
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Can a woman become a genius of the first class? Nobody can know unless women in general shall have equal opportunity with men in education, in vocational choice, and in social welcome of their best intellectual work for a number of generations.
Anna Garlin Spencer
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The failure of women to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block the way of all women of talent and ambition for intellectual achievement.
Anna Garlin Spencer
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The mind of man is more intuitive than logical, and comprehends more than it can coordinate.
Luc de Clapiers
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The cliche of the nerdy kid who doesn't go outside and just plays games is completely untrue. And it's also true for the nerdy kid who studies comic books and turns into this genius, and it is also true for the nerdy kid who listens to every nerdy thing that Led Zeppelin put out. That kind of obsession in a 16-year-old is not ugly. It's beautiful.
Penn Jillette
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He that seeks popularity in art closes the door on his own genius: as he must needs paint for other minds, and not for his own.
Anna Brownell Jameson
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