Genius Quotes - Page 3

• Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2009). “The Crack-Up”, p.123, New Directions Publishing

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• Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.

  W. H. Murray

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• To be endowed with strength by nature, to be actuated by the powers of the mind, and to have a certain spirit almost divine infused into you.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Mind, Spirit, Divine

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• The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.

  Aneurin Bevan

  Political, Labels, Politics

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• Oh, I'm not a true genius. I'm a near genius. I would say I'm a short genius. I'd rather be tall and normal than a short genius.

  Mel Brooks

  Normal, True Genius, Tall

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.

  Lawrence Durrell

  Happiness, Laughter, Men

  Lawrence Durrell (1991). “Clea”, Penguin Group USA

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• Bach is the supreme genius of music... This man, who knows everything and feels everything, cannot write one note, however unimportant it may appear, which is anything but transcendent. He has reached the heart of every noble thought, and has done it in the most perfect way.

  Pablo Casals

  Writing, Heart, Men

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

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• No enemy is indeed so terrible as a man of genius.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Men, Enemy, Terrible

  "Curiosities of Literature".

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• Genius, in one respect, is like gold; numbers of persons are constantly writing about both, who have neither.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Writing, Numbers, Gold

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.395

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• David Ortiz is a genius. He's incredible to watch. Over and over, he hits home runs that are simply transcendent.

  Juliana Hatfield

  Running, Home, Watches

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• Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.

  J. G. Ballard

  Real, Writing, Fool

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• The US patent system adds the fuel of interest to the fire of genius in the discovery and production of new and useful things

  Abraham Lincoln

  Fire, Discovery, Patents

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• My job is to pay attention to my children's genius and allow those leanings to lead them to their future.

  Lisa Whelchel

  Jobs, Children, Attention

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

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• I mean, Scorsese's a genius, and that's one way of shooting.

  Stanley Tucci

  Mean, Shooting, Way

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• The genius of the French language, descended from its single Latin stock, has triumphed most in the contrary direction - in simplicity, in unity, in clarity, and in restraint.

  Lytton Strachey

  Latin, Simplicity, Unity

  Lytton Strachey (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Lytton Strachey (Illustrated)”, p.22, Delphi Classics

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• The genius of our institutions is democratic - baseball is a democratic game.

  Albert Goodwill Spalding

  Baseball, Games, Institutions

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• Like many businessmen of genius he learned that free competition was wasteful, monopoly efficient. And so he simply set about achieving that efficient monopoly.

  Mario Puzo

  Competition, Scandal, Corruption

  1969 The Godfather, bk.3, ch.14.

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• Clinton's fakery was so deft and deeply ingrained that it was impossible to tell where it ended and the real Bill Clinton began. This constituted a kind of political genius.

  Rich Lowry

  Real, Political, Bills

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• Olivier was another case of a genius, who couldn't understand why anybody would have any trouble doing this, because for him it came so easily.

  James Lipton

  Trouble, Cases

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• If we will maintain our hope and confidence in the genius of our people, they will work out this problem, and their ability and industry will bring us back to normal conditions.

  Frank B. Kellogg

  People, Work Out, Normal

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• Genius, as an explosive power, beats gunpowder hollow.

  Thomas Huxley

  Power, Gunpowder, Beats

  Leonard Huxley, Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley”, p.53, Cambridge University Press

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• To understand Europe, you have to be a genius - or French.

  Madeleine Albright

  Europe

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• I am the farthest thing from a computer genius.

  Jonathan Brandis

  Computer

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• Of all the projects I've worked on, I've never worked with another director like Billy Friedkin. I think he's a genius.

  Linda Blair

  Thinking, Directors, Projects

  Interview with Frank Moran, www.horrorgalore.com. March 24, 2015.

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• It takes no genius to observe that a one-man band never gets very big

  Charles Garfield

  Men, Band, Bigs

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