Genius Quotes - Page 38

• I wouldn't say jamie is an evil genius. I'm not sure he's evil and I'm not sure he's a genius.

  Adam Savage

  Evil, Jamie, Mythbusters

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• Reason is mechanical, wit chemical, and genius organic spirit.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Spirit, Reason, Chemicals

  "Athenaeum" magazine, #366, 1798.

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• There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what he himself is who does not know his fellow men, especially the most prominent one of the community, the master's master, the genius of the age.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Birthday, Men, Self

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• My mother's a genius. She just kept feeding me art on whatever we had; paper plates, silver platter, didn't matter. You know, she just kept feeding it to me. So we went to see all kinds of theater. We would go to the art museum pretty much every Sunday, and I would watch her. She let me know that art was supposed to touch.

  Jill Scott

  Mother, Art, Sunday

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• I really got into 'The Walking Dead.' That was genius. And I have to say, my husband is on 'Shameless,' and I think it's a brilliant show.

  Sarah Shahi

  Husband, Thinking, Walking Dead

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• As Fallingwater demonstrates, Wright's genius was always specific, but also always lively, always daring.

  Jane Smiley

  Daring, Lively

  "Lively, daring genius" by Jane Smiley, www.theguardian.com. October 18, 2007.

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• I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the variety of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Inspirational, Music, Opportunity

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.

  Joe Theismann

  Funny, Sports, Football

  "Conrad Smith sees USA challenge in all black and white: it's about the win" by Alexander Bisley, www.theguardian.com. October 30, 2014.

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• The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Art, Nature, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.246, Delphi Classics

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• I was more independent than any farmer in Concord, for I was not anchored to a house or farm, but could follow the bent of my genius, which is a very crooked one, every moment.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Independent, Agriculture, House

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.42, Graphic Arts Books

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• The genius of democracies is seen not only in the great number of new words introduced but even more in the new ideas they express.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Ideas, Numbers, Democracy

  Alexis de Tocqueville (1990). “Democracy in America”

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• Buddy Rich is one of a kind; he's a genius, and that's all there is to it.

  Mel Torme

  Kind, Rich, Buddy

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• My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.

  Mark Twain

  Book, Wine, Water

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• Richard Avedon is a true genius of photography and one of the greatest artists of our time.

  Donatella Versace

  Photography, Artist, Our Time

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Everything I do, I feel is genius. Whether it is or it isn't.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Feels

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I do not consider myself a literal genius.

  Lil Wayne

  Literal

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• An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in the dark - that is critical genius.

  Billy Wilder

  Work, Dark, Together

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• The only genius that's worth anything is the genius for hard work.

  Kathleen Winsor

  Hard Work, Hard

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• A marvellous power of expression over language often distinguishes genius; but Shakespeare in his phrases seems independent of the bonds of language as of the bonds of metre.

  George Edward Woodberry

  Independent, Expression, Phrases

  George Edward Woodberry (1916). “Shakespeare: An Address”

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• Art has a double visage: it looks before and after. Romance is its forward-looking face. The germ of growth is in romanticism. Formalism, on the other hand, consolidates tradition; gleans what has been gained and makes it facile to the hand or the mind; economizes the energy of genius.

  George Edward Woodberry

  Art, Hands, Romance

  George Edward Woodberry (1916). “Shakespeare: An Address”

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• Genius is that in which the soul of a race bums at its brightest, revealing and preserving its vision; works of art are great and significant in proportion to the clarity and fulness with which they incarnate this vision.

  George Edward Woodberry

  Art, Race, Soul

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• The critic is genius at one remove; he is not unlike an actor on the stage, and incarnates in his mind, as the actor embodies in his person, another's work; only thus does he understand art, realize it, know it; and having arrived at this, his task is done.

  George Edward Woodberry

  Art, Mind, Doe

  George Edward Woodberry (1914). “Two Phases of Criticism, Historical and Aesthetic: Lectures Delivered on the Larwill Foundation of Kenyon College, May Seventh and Eighth, 1913”

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• We need creative people working with broadcasters, making smart content to inspire people to be geniuses.

  will.i.am

  Smart, People, Creative

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• Obviously, Jay-Z is one of the greatest entertainers of the world today. Not only is he a remarkable rhetorical genius, he's also a man of deep sympathy and empathy for those who are lost and vulnerable, but especially under-educated youth of all cultures and stripes.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Men, Empathy, Stripes

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• It is easy to be seen as either a genius or a crank. If you have a Ph.D., at least you somewhat lower the chances that you will be seen as a crank.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Chance, Easy, Crank

  "The Internet’s Verbal Contrarian" by Noam Cohen, www.nytimes.com. August 14, 2013.

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