Genius Quotes - Page 27

• For a few days I tweeted with a certain Pippa Middleton, and I really thought it was the Pippa Middleton. Then I discovered it was a fake. But the person who had thought up the concept was nice. It was kind of genius in its own way.

  Stefano Gabbana

  Nice, Fake, Way

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• Messi always makes the right decision, whether it's a pass or a finish. He's a little genius.

  Gary Lineker

  Decision, Messi, Littles

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• When the president talks about tax reform, he talks about the people who will benefit. He talks about American jobs. He talks about the fact that we're going to be taking money that's overseas and bringing it back to the United States so that it will employ American workers. I think that focus again on the American working and middle class is- is-is to me the most thoughtful and, in some ways, the most genius part of Trump's approach to politics.

  James Vance

  Thoughtful, Thinking, People

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• The biggest thinker that's influenced my feminism is definitely Bell Hooks, who's a feminist cultural critic, because of her accessibility but also just because she's a genius.

  Jessica Valenti

  Feminist, Feminism, Hook

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I couldn't live without the genius of Stephen Sondheim, be it not just West Side Story,but Follies,Company,Sweeney Todd,Passion.You can go on and on.

  Cornel West

  Passion, West, Sides

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• "Genius is just enduring patience," said Buffon. This is far from complete. Genius is impatience in ideas and patience with the facts: a lively imagination and a calm judgment, rather like a liquid boiling in a cup that remains cold.

  Leo Errera

  Science, Ideas, Imagination

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• We are having wool pulled over our eyes if we let ourselves be convinced that scientists, taken as a group, are anything special in the way of brains. They are very ordinary professional men, and all they know is their own trade, just like all other professional men. There are some geniuses among them, just as there are mental giants in any other field of endeavor.

  Anthony Standen

  Taken, Eye, Science

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• "Le génie n'est qu'une longue patience", a dit Buffon. Cela est bien incomplet. Le génie, c'est l'impatience dans les idées et la patience dans les faits : une imagination vive et un jugement calme; quelque chose comme un liquide en ébullition dans un vase qui reste toujours froid. "Genius is just enduring patience," said Buffon. This is far from complete. Genius is impatience in ideas and patience with the facts: a lively imagination and a calm judgment, rather like a liquid boiling in a cup that remains cold.

  Leo Errera

  Ideas, Imagination, Vases

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• The study of combinations should enrich the analytical spirit of studious amateurs. Thereafter the most gifted among them will be able to catch some sparks of the genius of masters, and in addition some rays of the glory that is the masters.

  Eugene Znosko-Borovsky

  Rays, Chess, Able

  Eugene Znosko-Borovsky (2013). “The Art of Chess Combination”, p.205, Courier Corporation

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• I am a genius, I am brilliant, I am outstanding and I can achieve whatever I choose to achieve with a ... given by my Creator." That is how I am helping people.

  John Assaraf

  People, Brilliant, Helping

  Source: insearchofheroes.com

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• I am helping people maybe scrape off some of the old stuff that has been put upon us that has taken us from being genius's to not feeling great about ourselves by having doubts, fears and anxieties.

  John Assaraf

  Taken, People, Anxiety

  Source: insearchofheroes.com

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• My dad [Johnny Cash] went to the [Richard] Nixon White House and refused to sing "Welfare Cadillac" (instead performing the anti-war songs "The Ballad of Ira Hayes" and "Man in Black"). He protested the Vietnam War, but he went to perform for the troops with bombs dropping all around him. He had that kind of genius: a true artist's capacity for holding two opposing thoughts at once while being large enough to encompass all realities.

  Rosanne Cash

  Song, Dad, War

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• Skrillex. The man is a genius and paved a new way for music and it's very inspiring.

  Christina Grimmie

  Men, Way, He Man

  Source: www.maximumpop.co.uk

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• Most infants are geniuses. They're indomitable, fearless, and completely in harmony with a cosmic proclivity for growth. They're heroes because they walk directly through adversity with love and ardent resolve.

  Daniel Gillies

  Hero, Adversity, Fearless

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• We started an organization that's the only sub-organization of the MacArthur Foundation and we are called the Macarturos. Usually when I win something, I'm the only one of my ethnicity to get it, but this time I met all these Latinos, and I was so excited. I'd meet someone and I'd go, [...] "Can you come to San Antonio?" And they'd go, "Oh yeah." [...] And suddenly I had twelve people that said they would come. And I didn't know how it was going to be. And that's how the Macarturos became a reality, where these very generous geniuses come to San Antonio and work together.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Winning, Reality, Ethnicity

  "Talking in Our Pajamas: A Conversation with Sandra Cisneros on Finding Your Voice, Fear of Highways, Tacos, Travel, and the Need for Peace in the World". Interview with Ruth Behar, quod.lib.umich.edu. 2008.

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• We have barely begun to tap into the genius of our humanity.

  Jean Houston

  Humanity

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• I use an app called ChoreMonster. The kids earn points for brushing teeth or picking up the dog poop. It's genius.

  Julie Bowen

  Dog, Kids, Poop

  "Julie Bowen: Fellow Mom Reese Witherspoon 'Saved My Life'". Interview with Alissa Schulman, www.usmagazine.com. August 9, 2016.

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• You can perfect genius because genius is not perfection. On his level and his practice and his methodology, it's almost inhuman. So, that's been a fantastic arc to play, and boy does it go somewhere in this series.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Boys, Practice, Play

  "‘Sherlock’ Creators and Benedict Cumberbatch on “Myopically Dark” Season 4 and the Series’ Future". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 2, 2016.

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• I signed Jay-Z because he was on fire. I wasn't a genius. The record was great. I put it on The Nutty Professor soundtrack and we signed him.

  Russell Simmons

  Fire, Records, Soundtracks

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• If someone can write great music... Paul McCartney is a genius. He's so prolific. All we should do is bow down to Paul McCartney.

  Fred Armisen

  Writing, Bows, Great Music

  "Bill Hader and Fred Armisen on making comedy cinematic with Documentary Now!". Interview with Gwen Ihnat, www.avclub.com. August 4, 2016.

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• Most birds are geniuses. We had one that became a pet; he learned to talk, use tools and solve problems.

  Jean Craighead George

  Bird, Pet, Tools

  Source: thefreegeorge.com

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• I love reality shows. The folks who dream up some of these concepts are either geniuses, or totally stoned.

  Carl Hiaasen

  Dream, Reality, Shows

  ""True-life Source Material Is Fabulously Bizarre" - Carl Hiaasen Answers Our Questions about "Razor Girl"". Interview with Adrian Liang, www.omnivoracious.com. September 08, 2016.

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• Talent wears well, genius wears itself out; talent drives a snug brougham in fact; genius, a sun-chariot in fancy.

  Ouida

  Science, Fancy, Sun

  Ouida (1871). “Chandos: A Novel : in Two Volumes”, p.91

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• Everyone loves his own country, customs, language, wife, children, not because they are the best in the world, but because they are his established property, and he loves in them himself, and the labor he has bestowed on them. The working of revolutions, therefore, misleads me no more; it is as necessary to our race as its waves to the stream, that it may not be a stagnant marsh. Ever renewed in its forms, the genius of humanity blossoms.

  Johann Gottfried Herder

  Country, Children, Race

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• Alexander Pope once wrote that the theater aspires to wake the soul by gentle strokes of art - to raise the genius and to mend the heart.

  Kelsey Grammer

  Art, Soul, Pope

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