Genius Quotes - Page 26

• The ordinary man casts a shadow in a way we do not quite understand. The man of genius casts light.

  George Steiner

  Men, Light, Shadow

  "Not a Preface, but a Word of Thanks". Foreword to "Unfinished Journey" by Yehudi Menuhin, 1977.

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• Genius is intuition on fire.

  Holbrook Jackson

  Fire, Intuition

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• I guess a certain amount of temperament is expected of Chess geniuses

  Ronald Gross

  Chess, Certain, Temperament

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• Society cannot contribute anything to the breeding and growing of ingenious men. A creative genius cannot be trained. There are no schools for creativeness. A genius is precisely a man who defies all schools and rules, who deviates from the traditional roads of routine and opens up new paths through land inaccessible before. A genius is always a teacher, never a pupil; he is always self-made.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Teacher, School, Men

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Bureaucracy: The Economist”, p.13, VM eBooks

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• The genius of culture is to create an ontological system so compelling that what is inside and outside of a person are viewed as of a piece, no seams and patches noticeable.

  Richard Shweder

  Culture, Pieces, Patches

  "Cultural Psychology - What Is It?". Cultural Psychology, 1990.

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• The great characteristic of men of active genius is a sublime self-confidence, springing not from self-conceit, but from an intense identification of the man with his object, which lifts him altogether above the fear of danger and death, which gives to his enterprise a character of insanity to the common eye, and which communicates an almost superhuman audacity to his will.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Character, Eye, Self Confidence

  Edwin Percy Whipple (1851). “Literature and life, lects”, p.87

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• Genius is seldom recognized for what it is: a great capacity for hard work.

  Henry Ford

  Life, Success, Work

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• excessive fear and self-doubt that were the greatest detractors of personal genius.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Self, Doubt, Self-doubt

  Robert T. Kiyosaki (2016). “Rich Dad, Poor Dad”, p.81, Lulu Press, Inc

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• The heart of man does not tolerate an absence of the excellent and supreme.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Heart, Men, Doe

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• Genius may stand on the shoulders of giants, but it stands alone.

  Tom Robbins

  Giants, May, Stand Alone

  "The Syntax of Sorcery: An Interview with Tom Robbins". Interview with Tony Vigorito, realitysandwich.com. June 6, 2012.

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• I have no secret but hard work. This is a secret that many never learn, and they don't succeed because they don't learn it. Labor is the genius that changes the world from ugliness to beauty, and the great curse to a great blessing.

  J. M. W. Turner

  Hard Work, Blessing, Secret

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• Towering genius disdains a beaten path ... It scorns to tread in the footsteps of any predecessor, however illustrious. It thirsts for distinction.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Path, Distinction, Thirst

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln(1832-1865) (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)”, p.14, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Five common traits of good writers: (1) They have something to say. (2) They read widely and have done so since childhood. (3) They possess what Isaac Asimov calls a "capacity for clear thought," able to go from point to point in an orderly sequence, an A to Z approach. (4) They're geniuses at putting their emotions into words. (5) They possess an insatiable curiosity, constantly asking Why and How.

  James J. Kilpatrick

  Writing, Asking Why, Childhood

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• Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore they choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing them.

  Joseph Addison

  Pain, Learning, Men

  Joseph Addison (1839). “Essays Moral and Humorous: Also Essays on Imagination and Taste”, p.135

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• As eternity is longer than time, as mind is stronger than matter, as thought is swifter than the wind, as genius is more potent than gold, so will the results of well-directed labors toward the development of man's higher faculties ever outweigh a thousand fold any estimate in the currency of commerce, which man can put upon such efforts.

  Edward Miner Gallaudet

  Men, Wind, Effort

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• Even if you're a genius and you invent your own language, it doesn't become a language until there are people using it.

  Eyvind Kang

  People, Language, Ifs

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Whitney proved to be a competent manufacturer, but wasn't an original inventor to any important degree. Thomas Blanchard was a true genius: his stock making machine was the daddy of all the industrial profiling machinery, like the 1870s universal milling machine, that was the especial American contribution to machining technology. By that time, the British conceded that machinery innovation had shifted to America.

  Charles R. Morris

  Technology, America, Daddy

  Interview with Bob Morris, bobmorris.biz. December 17, 2012.

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• I'm really compulsive with music. I listen too much, and I can't listen to one thing. I love iTunes Genius.

  Lady Sovereign

  Things I Love, Too Much, Itunes

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I started playing bass in my friend's band for some reason. It was just something I did because, well, he asked me if I wanted to play bass and he played me this song - Nirvana's version of "Molly's Lips", the Vaselines song - and he said, "You can do this! This is not hard!" and it's like a two-note song. I learned that and then I thought I was a genius.

  Jens Lekman

  Song, Play, Two

  Interview with Ryan Schreiber, pitchfork.com. February 13, 2006.

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• Whatever happened to Trump Airlines? How about Trump University? And then there's Trump Magazine and Trump Vodka and Trump Steaks, and Trump Mortgage? A business genius he [Donald Trump] is not.

  Mitt Romney

  Magazines, Mortgage, Vodka

  "First on CNN: Team Romney explores blocking Trump at RNC" by Jamie Gangel and Eric Bradner, www.cnn.com. March 3, 2016.

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• The biggest thinker that's influenced my feminism is definitely Bell Hooks, who's a feminist cultural critic, because of her accessibility but also just because she's a genius.

  Jessica Valenti

  Feminist, Feminism, Hook

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I couldn't live without the genius of Stephen Sondheim, be it not just West Side Story,but Follies,Company,Sweeney Todd,Passion.You can go on and on.

  Cornel West

  Passion, West, Sides

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• Collaborating with the musical genius of our time in some ways with Prince himself - late, great Gerald Levert,all these are forms of singing education, what the Greeks call paideia,that deep education to get us to shift from superficial things to serious things, to shift from bling-bling to life and death to justice and pain and joy, those fundamental, elemental things that we must come to terms with as we make our moves from our mother's womb to the tomb.

  Cornel West

  Mother, Pain, Moving

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• I was fortunate enough, after many visits to many wonderful, weird people to come across Burt Rutan, who is a genius in the Mojave Desert. And SpaceShipOne was born and had three flights into space that won something called the X Prize. And from there, we're building SpaceShipTwo, which is ... a beautiful spaceship that is very, very, very nearly completed and will be ready from about next Christmas onwards to start taking people into space.

  Richard Branson

  Beautiful, Space, People

  "Richard Branson: Time To Rethink 'Business As Usual'". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. December 1, 2011.

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• "Genius is just enduring patience," said Buffon. This is far from complete. Genius is impatience in ideas and patience with the facts: a lively imagination and a calm judgment, rather like a liquid boiling in a cup that remains cold.

  Leo Errera

  Science, Ideas, Imagination

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