Genius Quotes - Page 39

• Remember when those CD-ROMs from AOL came in the mail almost every day? The company was considered ubiquitous, invincible. Former AOL CEO Steve Case was no less a genius than Mark Zuckerberg.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Zuckerberg, Cds, Mail

  "Facebook hype will fade" by Douglas Rushkoff, www.cnn.com. January 7, 2011.

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• I'm not a girl. I'm a genius.

  Joanna Russ

  Girl

  Joanna Russ (2010). “The Female Man”, p.49, Hachette UK

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• PHOSPHORESCENCE. Now there's a word to lift your hat to... to find that phosphorescence, that light within, that's the genius behind poetry.

  Emily Dickinson

  Light, Hats, Behinds

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• One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Becoming, Impossible, Feminine

  Simone de Beauvoir (1953). “The second sex”, Vintage

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• Nothing is as contagious as enthusiasm. It is the real allegory of the myth of Orpheus; it moves stones, and charms brutes. It is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Life, Motivational, Success

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• Any fool can make something complicated. It takes a genius to make it simple.

  Woody Guthrie

  Simple, Fool, Complicated

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• I'm a misunderstood genius." "What's misunderstood?" "Nobody thinks I'm a genius.

  Bill Watterson

  Thinking, Misunderstood, Misunderstood Genius

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• WHORES. Necessary in the nineteenth century for the contraction of syphilis, without which no one could claim genius.

  Julian Barnes

  Syphilis, Century, Claims

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• These are the times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed. The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues. When a mind is raised, and animated by scenes that engage the heart, then those qualities which would otherwise lay dormant, wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.

  Abigail Adams

  Hero, Heart, Character

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• All the geniuses I ever met were so just part of the time. To qualify, you only have to be great once, you know. Once when it matters.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Matter, Mets, Knows

  Lois McMaster Bujold (1999). “Komarr”, p.23, Baen Books

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• Maybe you can make art out of unredeemed pain, but only if you're a genius -- Dostoyevsky perhaps.

  Larry McMurtry

  Art, Pain, Dostoyevsky

  Larry McMurtry (2010). “Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen: Reflections on Sixty and Beyond”, p.41, Simon and Schuster

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• A wise reader reads the book of genius not with his heart, not so much with his brain, but with his spine. It is there that occurs the telltale tingle.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Wise, Book, Heart

  Vladimir Nabokov (2017). “Lectures on Literature”, p.6, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.

  Douglas Adams

  Life, Retirement, Incompetence

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• Reading is the royal road to intellectual eminence...Truly good books are more than mines to those who can understand them. They are the breathings of the great souls of past times. Genius is not embalmed in them, but lives in them perpetually.

  William Ellery Channing

  Book, Reading, Past

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• There are teachers and students with square minds who are by nature meant to undergo the fascination of catagories. For them, 'schools' and 'movements' are everything; by painting a group symbol on the brow of mediocrity, they condone their own incomprehension of true genius.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Teacher, School, Squares

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• The greatness comes not when things go always good for you. But the greatness comes when you're really tested, when you take some knocks, some disappointments, when sadness comes. Because only if you've been in the deepest valley can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Positive, Courage, Disappointment

  Farewell Remarks to White House Cabinet and Staff, delivered 9 August 1974

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• People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't realize how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world.

  Bill Watterson

  Inspirational, Funny, Witty

  "The Revenge of the Baby-Sat". Book by Bill Watterson, April 1991.

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• Dear God, I prayed, all unafraid (as we're inclined to do), I do not need a handsome man but let him be like You; I do not need one big and strong nor yet so very tall, nor need he be some genius, or wealthy, Lord, at all; but let his head be high, dear God, and let his eye be clear, his shoulders straight, whate'er his state, whate'er his earthly sphere; and let his face have character, a ruggedness if soul, and let his whole life show, dear God, a singleness of goal; then when he comes (as he will come) with quiet eyes aglow, I'll understand that he's the man I prayed for long ago.

  Ruth Graham

  Strong, Character, Eye

  Ruth Bell Graham (2007). “Footprints of a Pilgrim”, p.51, Thomas Nelson

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• I did not consider him to be any kind of a genius. I considered him deeply lacking in the area that mattered most in life. Star quality.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Stars, Quality, Kind

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• But I'm not a saint yet. I'm an alcoholic. I'm a drug addict. I'm homosexual. I'm a genius.

  Truman Capote

  Drinking, Alcohol, Drug

  Truman Capote (2012). “Music For Chameleons”, p.273, Vintage

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• Trust me. I'm a genius.

  Eoin Colfer

  Trust Me

  Eoin Colfer (2005). “Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code - Book #3”, Miramax

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• Claim whatever you want. Say you only want a happy family or a successful career or a big house. I say: no, that's not what you want. You'll settle for those things, but you really want a monkey that does your evil bidding. Pullman is a genius just for this.

  Maureen Johnson

  Successful, Careers, Evil

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• Genius is of small use to a woman who does not know how to do her hair.

  Edith Wharton

  Women, Hair, Doe

  Edith Wharton (2007). “Ethan Frome and Other Short Fiction”, p.14, Bantam Classics

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• From the union of power and money, from the union of power and secrecy, from the union of government and science, from the union of government and art, from the union of science and money, from the union of ambition and ignorance, from the union of genius and war, from the union of outer space and inner vacuity, the Mad Farmer walks quietly away.

  Wendell Berry

  Art, War, Ambition

  Wendell Berry (2009). “The Mad Farmer Poems”, p.17, Counterpoint Press

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• These days, Clarissa believes, you measure people first by their kindness and their capacity for devotion. You get tired, sometimes, of wit and intellect; everybody's little display of genius.

  Michael Cunningham

  Kindness, Believe, Tired

  Michael Cunningham (1998). “The Hours: A Novel”, p.18, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux

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