Genius Quotes - Page 30

• Lenny Bruce genius was the unique ability to investigate hypocrisy and expose social inequities in a street rap that was really a form of poetry.

  George Carlin

  Rap, Unique, Hypocrisy

  Source: reprints.longform.org

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• Autism is a big continuum, going from someone who remains nonverbal, all the way up to geniuses on Silicon Valley. And some kids are visual thinkers like me. Other kids are pattern thinkers - your mathematicians, your programmers. And there are others, they are word thinkers. Uneven skills. You need to take the thing that they're good at and you need to work on developing it.

  Temple Grandin

  Kids, Skills, Autism

  Source: www.kshb.com

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• We all need to be astute in sending and reading power cues, so that we can prevent ourselves - and the world - from being manipulated by evil geniuses like Hitler.

  Nick Morgan

  Reading, Evil, Needs

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• I never met Putin, I don't know who Putin is. He said one nice thing about me. He said I'm a genius. I said thank you very much to the newspaper and that was the end of it. I never met Putin.

  Donald Trump

  Nice, Putin, Newspapers

  "First meeting for Trump and Putin: what will the power dynamics reveal?" by Julian Borger, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 3, 2017.

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• There are only one or two geniuses every century.

  Raoul Peck

  Two, Century

  Source: www.theskanner.com

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• Creative genius is a divinely bestowed gift which is the coronation of the few.

  Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

  Creative, Creative Genius, Coronation

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• I love Seth Rogen's line in which he talks about how you can be both a genius and decent at the same time.

  Michael Stuhlbarg

  Lines, Decent

  Source: nerdist.com

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• [Pawn Sacrifice is] about the 1972 chess championship between Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky. I play Paul Marshall.It was a great story of a very peculiar man, another genius who's troubled and lived an interesting life. I had great fun making that.

  Michael Stuhlbarg

  Fun, Sacrifice, Men

  Source: nerdist.com

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• Donald Trump's a businessman, he's a very successful businessman. I think he's a marketing genius.

  Doug Ford, Jr.

  Successful, Thinking, Marketing

  Source: www.citynews.ca

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• The old idea that some genius pulls all of this stuff out of the air is ridiculous. As Ridley pointed out, the only way Edison could invent the lightbulb is because all the elements had been developed before. That's obvious it wasn't just his genius - 20 others developed it at the same time. And that's true for almost every invention and discovery.

  Charles Koch

  Air, Discovery, Ideas

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• There are people at the extremes who aren't able to do anything musically, and then others sort of fall in the middle. And the same thing with math, and the same thing with art. You'll find people who are geniuses, or prodigies at the far end of the bell shaped curve, and I think you will find some of the acquired savants in that category who happened to have been endowed with that kind of talent, which explains why not everyone becomes an acquired savant.

  Darold Treffert

  Art, Fall, Math

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• When I met my first savant in 1962, I was impressed by the abilities in these youngsters who had severe disabilities. They appeared to me to be islands of genius in the sea of disability. So I've maintained that word picture since that time, of these islands of genius that are so striking and so jarring when you see them, especially in people who have severe disability.

  Darold Treffert

  Islands, Sea, People

  "Conversations on Creativity with Darold Treffert, Part I: De". Interview with Scott Barry Kaufman, www.psychologytoday.com. April 11, 2011.

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• Not everyone who has a savant skill I would equate with a genius.

  Darold Treffert

  Skills, Savants

  "Conversations on Creativity with Darold Treffert, Part I: De". Interview with Scott Barry Kaufman, www.psychologytoday.com. April 11, 2011.

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• There is such a thing as genius, and these are people who do not have a formal disability, DSM-IV-type. They may have liberal eccentricities or quirks in their personality, but they don't rise to the level of a disability.

  Darold Treffert

  People, Personality, Levels

  "Conversations on Creativity with Darold Treffert, Part I: De". Interview with Scott Barry Kaufman, www.psychologytoday.com. April 11, 2011.

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• The very properties of the human mind that provide an enormous scope for human genius in some domains will serve as barriers to progress in other domains, just as the properties that enable each child to acquire a complex and highly articulated human language block the acquisition of other imaginable linguistic systems.

  Noam Chomsky

  Children, Block, Mind

  Source: chomsky.info

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• If I have a dynamite bass player - I have Darryl Jones - it's so easy to write for him because he's such a funky kid and he's gifted. He's like a little genius.

  Miles Davis

  Kids, Writing, Player

  Source: hepcat1950.com

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• Rilke has a very bizarre relationship to women because his mother had an older child, a girl who died when she was a baby. So when Rilke was born she named him Sophie and dressed him as a girl until he was 7. And psychologically, the repercussions of that made him the genius that he is. By the time he was 35, he was continuously falling in love with older women, mother figures, spiritual mothers.

  Laura Marling

  Girl, Mother, Spiritual

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• We are entering a hyperconnected world where every boss now has more access, cheap access to cheap labor, cheap genius, cheap robot, cheap software, and then this world averages over. There is only one answer to that, and that is to get everyone as close as possible to some form of post-secondary education, it could be vocational, it can be liberal arts, it can be science and technology.

  Thomas Friedman

  Art, Technology, Average

  Source: theislamicmonthly.com

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• A guy like Scott [Robinson] plays the whole history of music on every instrument you've ever heard of. He's just kind of an unparalleled genius.

  Jon Gordon

  Play, Guy, Kind

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• If you go with that spirit, good things will come for you. If you go into it with an assumption that you're a genius and that you're entitled to something, it's a little tougher.

  Jon Gordon

  Littles, Spirit, Assumption

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• It's very unlikely you're a genius, but, if you're ready to work at it hard and you want to listen to music all the time and you want to learn about it and you want to be around the people who do it, you'll find your own way.

  Jon Gordon

  People, Want, Way

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• The experimental film scene was very much misogynistic as well. I don't know if you have read what little attention was given to the films of Joyce Wieland, who was the wife of Michael Snow. Michael was the "genius" and she was not. If you look at the films they're wonderful, but very different. Michael was very proud of the films too, so it was not coming from him. It was coming from the general environment. I think both Chantal Akerman and I shared that. We wanted to find a language, which was the language of women.

  Babette Mangolte

  Thinking, Snow, Wife

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm wired with a little bit of self-loathing, not that kind of self-loathing that paralyzes me, but it's there. The things I'm most loved for are sometimes the things that annoy me, not my favorite stuff, but those flashes of genius moments, they're called, I rarely see them as a one eureka light bulb idea.

  Brian Michael Bendis

  Kind, Sometimes, Annoying

  Source: www.fanbolt.com

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• There's some advice for the next generation. If there's a dream in your heart, never let anyone tell you you've got no talent. Get out there, embarrass yourself, and prove to the world you've got no talent. And then give up. 'Cause not everyone can be a genius like me.

  Murdoc Niccals

  Dream, Giving Up, Heart

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I would say Steven Spielberg is family to me. He's a genius. We survived a hurricane together. I ran from half-puppet,half-nothing creatures. It was months of our life as family. It was the wildest film, Jurassic Park, I'd ever worked on that way.

  Laura Dern

  Jurassic Park, Together, Film

  Source: www.avclub.com

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