Genius Quotes - Page 33

• Most people don't find their creativity. There are more unsung geniuses that don't even know they have great talent.

  Truman Capote

  Creativity, People, Talent

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Critics are notoriously liberal with their use of the term 'genius'.

  Steve Earle

  Use, Term, Critics

  "Why Bob Dylan deserves the Nobel Prize in Literature". www.gq-magazine.co.uk. October 13, 2016.

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• Bob Dylan is one of the very few people in the history of popular music who you can unquestionably apply that word [genius] to.

  Steve Earle

  People, Bob, Dylan

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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• Bob has never written a bad song. Bob Dylan is a genius.

  Bob Dylan

  Song, Bob, Dylan

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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• Then instead of introducing Dre as the guy from N.W.A., Jerry Heller would say Dre was my producer! Dre would come to my interviews with me - he'd come to all these places that would never have had the guy from N.W.A. Wasn't it genius?

  Michel'le

  Guy, Interviews, Introducing

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I always wondered, you know I watch "Cops" all the time - why doesn't a drug dealer design a trap door under their car? 'Cause cops don't have cameras under the cars, they get you for throwing stuff out the window! If you got a trap door under your car, boom! You would run over it. It would be genius.

  Kellan Lutz

  Running, Doors, Car

  Source: www.twilightlexicon.com

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• You need everyone to get together and just believe in it, and lead by example that it is possible to be outside the system, and that's really super-f - king hard, and I'm sure there's some geniuses out there who can achieve it.

  M.I.A.

  Kings, Believe, Together

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Irony can elude the genius among us, sometimes.

  Berkeley Breathed

  Elude, Irony, Sometimes

  "Bill is Back (Thank You Berkeley Breathed)". Interview With Seira Wilson, www.amazonbookreview.com. October 21, 2016.

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• I started a funny book from the 1930s called The Code of the Woosters by P. G. Wodehouse. Wodehouse is a comic genius.

  William Gurstelle

  Book, Comic, 1930s

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• The term "genius" gets used far too loosely in rock & roll.

  Jimmy Page

  Rocks, Used, Term

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• There's a certain standard in classical music that allows the application of the term "genius," but you're treading on thin ice if you start applying it to rock & rollers.

  Jimmy Page

  Rocks, Ice, Classical Music

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• You don't find geniuses in street musicians, but that doesn't mean to say you can't be really good.

  Jimmy Page

  Mean, Musician, Streets

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• Mild autism can give you a genius like Einstein. If you have severe autism, you could remain nonverbal. You don't want people to be on the severe end of the spectrum. But if you got rid of all the autism genetics, you wouldn't have science or art. All you would have is a bunch of social 'yak yaks.'

  Temple Grandin

  Art, People, Giving

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• But I just know from experience that accent wise, even if you're an accent genius, crossing the Atlantic is the hardest thing in the world either way.

  Hugh Grant

  Wise, Way, World

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• I really got into 'The Walking Dead.' That was genius. And I have to say, my husband is on 'Shameless,' and I think it's a brilliant show.

  Sarah Shahi

  Husband, Thinking, Walking Dead

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• As Fallingwater demonstrates, Wright's genius was always specific, but also always lively, always daring.

  Jane Smiley

  Daring, Lively

  "Lively, daring genius" by Jane Smiley, www.theguardian.com. October 18, 2007.

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• All geniuses die young.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Witty, Humorous

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• I have not slept. Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream: The Genius and the mortal instruments Are then in council; and the state of man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection.

  William Shakespeare

  Dream, Men, Suffering

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 2, sc. 1, l. 63

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• Now, I'm as appreciative as the next obsessive-compulsive recovering-academic of the vast riches of material becoming available online, thanks to all those Google scanners crouched in the basements of libraries around the world, madly feeding books through their machines. I download obscure tomes onto my iPad and give thanks to the dual gods Gates and Jobs, singing hymns to all the lesser pantheon of geniuses. But there's nothing like a book.

  Laurie R. King

  Jobs, Book, Hymns

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• Not gifted with genius but honestly holding his experiences deep in his heart, he kept his simplicity and humanity.

  Kobayashi Issa

  Heart, Simplicity, Humanity

  Issa Kobayashi, Nanao Sakaki, John Brandi, Jeff Bryan (1999). “Inch by inch: 45 haiku”, LA Alameda Pr

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• The knife is the most durable, immortal, the most genius thing that man created. The knife was the guillotine; the knife is the universal means of solving all knots; and along the blade of a knife lies the path of paradox - the single most worthy path of the fearless mind.

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Lying, Mean, Men

  Yevgeny Zamyatin (2007). “We”, p.103, Modern Library

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• To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart

  Alexander Pope

  Art, Soul, Strokes

  'The Rape of the Lock' (1714) canto 1, l. 1

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• A child has no trouble believing the unbelievable, nor does the genius or the madman. It’s only you and I, with our big brains and our tiny hearts, who doubt and overthink and hesitate.

  Steven Pressfield

  Children, Believe, Heart

  "Do the Work: Overcome Resistance and Get Out of Your Own Way". Book by Steven Pressfield, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 20, 2011.

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• All the labor of all the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noonday brightness of human genius are destined to extinction. So now, my friends, if that is true, and it is true, what is the point?

  Bertrand Russell

  Inspiration, Age, Brightness

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• Find out what people want to do, then tell them to do it. They'll think you're a genius.

  Connie Brockway

  Thinking, People, Want

  Connie Brockway (2007). “The Bridal Season: A Loveswept Classic Romance”, Loveswept

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