Genius Quotes - Page 35

• I am not a genius. But I am nerdy.

  Claire Danes

  Nerdy

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• What moves those of genius, what inspires their work is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough.

  Eugene Delacroix

  Art, Moving, Ideas

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• The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action.

  Denis Diderot

  Freedom, Might, Action

  "Observations on the Drawing Up of Laws". A letter to Catherine the Great, 1774.

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• Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.

  Denis Diderot

  Happiness, Men, Quality

  Denis Diderot (1966). “Selected Writings”, New York : Macmillan

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• We allow no geniuses around our Studio.

  Walt Disney

  Studios

  "Animated Architecture". Book by Derek Walker, 1982.

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• No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under a leadership composed of average human beings.

  Peter Drucker

  Leadership, Average, Needs

  Peter F. Drucker (2009). “Concept of the Corporation”, p.26, Transaction Publishers

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• I've run into certain geniuses of individualism - they are very few and far between - who live their lives completely on their own terms; they are very powerful and have a great amount of happiness. We all should aspire to that.

  David Duchovny

  Running, Powerful, Individualism

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• The genius of any slave system is found in the dynamics which isolate slaves from each other, obscure the reality of a common condition, and make united rebellion against the oppressor inconceivable.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Reality, Uprising, Dynamics

  "The Suffering Will Not Be Televised: African American Women and Sentimental". Book by Rebecca Wanzo, 2009.

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• I've never met a genius. A genius to me is someone who does well at something he hates. Anybody can do well at something he loves - it's just a question of finding the subject.

  Clint Eastwood

  Hate, Doe, Mets

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• No one respects a talent that is concealed.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Inspirational, Talent, Concealed

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• Nietzsche claimed that his genius was in his nostrils and I think that is a very excellent place for it to be.

  Federico Fellini

  Thinking, Excellent, Brilliant Ideas

  Federico Fellini, Damian Pettigrew (2003). “I'm a born liar: a Fellini lexicon”, Harry N Abrams Inc

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• The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius.

  E. M. Forster

  Moving, Men, Gains

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• Anybody can put things together that belong together. to put things together that don't go together, and make it work, that takes genius like Mozart's. Yet he is presented in the play Amadeus as a kind of silly boy whom the gods loved.

  Lukas Foss

  Silly, Boys, Play

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• We have to work harder to develop a profound theology of women within the church. The feminine genius is needed wherever we make important decisions.

  Pope Francis

  Profound, Decision, Important

  Pope Francis (2014). “My Door Is Always Open: A Conversation on Faith, Hope and the Church in a Time of Change”, p.63, A&C Black

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• If a professional musician in a symphony orchestra is playing Beethoven. But this particular orchestra have played this particular chestnut so many times, they can play it in their sleep. Does the genius remain present in the music or not?

  Robert Fripp

  Sleep, Play, Symphony

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• The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency.

  Margaret Fuller

  Spiritual, Women, Believe

  Margaret Fuller (2012). “Woman in the Nineteenth Century”, p.78, Courier Corporation

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• God and Nature first made us what we are, and then out of our own created genius we make ourselves what we want to be. Follow always that great law. Let the sky and God be our limit and Eternity our measurement.

  Marcus Garvey

  God, Law, Sky

  Marcus Garvey (2006). “The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers, Vol. X: Africa for the Africans, 1923–1945”, p.320, Univ of California Press

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• Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius... he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much.

  William Godwin

  Allies, Too Much, Spirit

  William Godwin (1823). “The enquirer. Reflections on education, manners, and literature. In a series of essays”, p.332

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• Mild autism can give you a genius like Einstein. If you have severe autism, you could remain nonverbal. You don't want people to be on the severe end of the spectrum. But if you got rid of all the autism genetics, you wouldn't have science or art. All you would have is a bunch of social 'yak yaks.'

  Temple Grandin

  Art, People, Giving

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• But I just know from experience that accent wise, even if you're an accent genius, crossing the Atlantic is the hardest thing in the world either way.

  Hugh Grant

  Wise, Way, World

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• I can't change overnight into a serious literary author. You can't compare apples to oranges. William Faulkner was a great literary genius. I am not.

  John Grisham

  Apples, Orange, Serious

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• If there are nine guys auditioning and they're all gorgeous, I have an advantage, because gorgeous guys are a dime a dozen. But if they need someone else - like a goofy guy with bad hair who is just okay - then that's me. And finally, the other 2 percent who audition are geniuses that I could never touch.

  Tom Hanks

  Hair, Guy, Needs

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• No one can resist the idea of a crippled genius.

  Stephen Hawking

  Ideas, Crippled

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• Picasso, Michelangelo, possibly, might be verging on genius, but I don't think a painter like Rembrandt is a genius.

  Damien Hirst

  Thinking, Might, Painter

  "Damien Hirst: 'Anyone can be Rembrandt'". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. November 13, 2009.

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• The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category.

  Adolf Hitler

  Military, Leader, Different

  Adolf Hitler (2016). “Mein Kampf: My Struggle: (Vol. I & Vol. II) - (Complete & Illustrated Edition)”, p.139, eKitap Projesi

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