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 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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• 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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• I am the farthest thing from a computer genius.

  Jonathan Brandis

  Computer

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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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• 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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• 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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• There is nothing so remote from vanity as true genius. It is almost as natural for those who are endowed with the highest powers of the human mind to produce the miracles of art, as for other men to breathe or move. Correggio, who is said to have produced some of his divinest works almost without having seen a picture, probably did not know that he had done anything extraordinary.

  William Hazlitt

  Art, Moving, Men

  William Hazlitt (1871). “The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt”, p.35

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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 only leaves behind it the monuments of its strength.

  William Hazlitt

  Behinds, Monument

  William Hazlitt (1870). “The Plain Speaker: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things”, p.162

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

  Aneurin Bevan

  Political, Labels, Politics

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

  Charles Garfield

  Men, Band, Bigs

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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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• The word genius was whispered into my ear, the first thing I ever heard, while I was still mewling in my crib. So it never occurred to me that I wasn't until middle age.

  Orson Welles

  Inspiration, Age, Ears

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

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

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Men, Enemy, Terrible

  "Curiosities of Literature".

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• A good woman would rather be the mother of a genius than the wife of a hero

  Gelett Burgess

  Mother, Hero, Wife

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

  Albert Goodwill Spalding

  Baseball, Games, Institutions

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

  Madeleine Albright

  Europe

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