Quotes and Sayings About Genius
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My favorite types of movies definitely aren't thrillers, but at the same time you can't deny the genius of Hitchcock's films.
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A Fool can become a Genius when he understands he is a Fool but. A Genius can become a Fool when he understands he is a Genius.
-- Abdul Kalam -
Genius is always more suggestive than expressive.
-- Abel StevensSource : Abel Stevens (1881). “Madame de Staël: A Study of Her Life and Times: the First Revolution and the First Empire”
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Genius is clairvoyant.
-- Abel StevensSource : Abel Stevens (1881). “Madame de Staël, a Study of Her Life and Times: The First Revolution and the First Empire”
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Genius can never despise labour.
-- Abel StevensSource : Abel Stevens (1881). “Madame de Staël, a Study of Her Life and Times: The First Revolution and the First Empire”
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Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
There is no such thing as unfortunate genius; if a man or woman is fit for work, God appoints the field.
-- Adah Isaacs MenkenSource : Adah Isaacs Menken (2002). “Infelicia and Other Writings”, p.80, Broadview Press
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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 -
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Every new invention has been a protest of genius against the masses.
-- Adolf Hitler -
Genius is a will-o'-the-wisp if it lacks a solid foundation of perseverence and fanatical tenacity. This is the most important thing in all of human life...
-- Adolf Hitler -
Man is a genius when he dreams. Dream what you are capable of. The harder you dream it, the sooner it will come true.
-- Akira Kurosawa -
The true secret to genius is in creativity, not in technical mechanics.
-- Al Seckel -
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The architects who benefit us most maybe those generous enough to lay aside their claims to genius in order to devote themselves to assembling graceful but predominantly unoriginal boxes. Architecture should have the confidence and the kindness to be a little boring.
-- Alain de Botton -
Some Italians are geniuses, but you have to find a balance.
-- Alain Prost -
It's too bad I'm not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because the world could use a few people like that.
-- Alan Alda -
The gut-feel of the 55-year old trader is more important than the mathematical elegance of the 25-year old genius.
-- Alan Greenspan -
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Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
-- Alan PerlisSource : "Epigrams on Programming". ACM SIGPLAN Notices 17 (9), pp. 7-13, pu.inf.uni-tuebingen.de. September 1982.
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I am not a genius, I am just curious. I ask many questions. and when the answer is simple, then God is answering.
-- Albert Einstein -
Highly developed spirits often encounter resistance from mediocre minds.
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It takes a touch of genius-and a lot of Courage-to move in the opposite direction.
-- Albert Einstein -
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Fraulein Noether was the most significant creative mathematical genius thus far produced since the higher education of women began.
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The genius of our institutions is democratic - baseball is a democratic game.
-- Albert Goodwill Spalding -
Almost all the noblest things that have been achieved in the world, have been achieved by poor men; poor scholars, poor professional men, poor artisans and artists, poor philosophers, poets, and men of genius.
-- Albert PikeSource : Albert Pike “Morals and Dogma : Scottish Rite in Freemasonry”, Lulu.com
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In Goodfellas they have this one scene where the camera goes down some steps and walks through a kitchen into a restaurant and the critics were all over this as evidence of the genius of Scorsese and Scorsese is a genius.
-- Alex CoxSource : Interview with Maximilian Le Cain, sensesofcinema.com. January 2003.
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Capablanca was snatched too early from the chess world. With his death we have lost a great chess genius, the like of whom we will never see again.
-- Alexander Alekhine -
All the genius I have lies in this; when I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly.
-- Alexander H. Stephens -
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To build a city where it is impossible to build a city is madness in itself, but to build there one of the most elegant and grandest of cities is the madness of genius.
-- Alexander HerzenSource : "The lost city of Venice" by Josh McHugh, www.wired.com. August 1, 2003.
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Bobby Fischer is the greatest Chess genius of all time!
-- Alexander Kotov