Genius Quotes - Page 37

• Ah, a German and a genius ! A prodigy, admit him !

  Jonathan Swift

  Prodigies, Last Words

  Jonathan Swift (1998). “The Sayings of Jonathan Swift”, p.44, Gerald Duckworth & Co

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• For me, the world of nature bears spectacular witness to the imaginative genius of our Creator.

  Philip Yancey

  World, Bears, Creation

  Philip Yancey (1995). “Finding God in Unexpected Places”, Ballantine Books

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• Criticism is often not a science; it is a craft, requiring more good health than wit, more hard work than talent, more habit than native genius. In the hands of a man who has read widely but lacks judgment, applied to certain subjects it can corrupt both its readers and the writer himself.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Hard Work, Men, Hands

  "Of Books". "Characters", Book by Jean De La Bruyère, www.ourcivilisation.com. 1688.

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• Love of liberty means the guarding of every resource that makes freedom possible-from the sanctity of our families and the wealth of our soil to the genius [of] our scientists.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Mean, Science, Civilization

  First Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1953

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• That adage about genius being 5 percent inspiration and 95 perspiration - it's true.

  Yanni

  Inspiration, Adages, Percent

  Yanni, David Rensin (2003). “Yanni in Words”, Miramax Books

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• Through our scientific and technological genius we've made of this world a neighborhood. And now through our moral and ethical commitment we must make of it a brotherhood. We must all learn to live together as brothers-or we will all perish together as fools.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Brother, Commitment, Science

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• Most analysts are SO SMART and have amazing ideas, but they can't convey their genius ideas to others.

  Chip Heath

  Smart, Ideas, Analysts

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• Dare your genius to walk the wildest unknown ways.

  Bryce Courtenay

  Wisdom, Way, Dare

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• Enlightenment means literally aligning to the Energy of my Source. And genius is only about focusing. Law of Attraction takes care of everything else. Physical humans often want to make enlightenment about finding some process and moving through the process that has been pre-described. But true enlightenment is moving to the rhythm of the internal inspiration that is coming in response to the individual desire. Enlightenment is about allowing my Connection to the Source that is me for the fulfillment of the things that I have individually defined here in my time-space-reality.

  Esther Hicks

  Moving, Inspiration, Mean

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• When you're one step ahead of the crowd you're a genius. When you're two steps ahead, you're a crackpot.

  Shlomo Riskin

  Two, Crowds, Steps

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• A man doesn't need brilliance or genius, all he needs is energy.

  Albert M. Greenfield

  Men, Energy, Needs

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• Culture and tradition have to change little by little. So 'new' means a little twist, a marriage of Japanese technique with French ingredients. My technique. Indian food, Korean food; I put Italian mozzarella cheese with sashimi. I don't think 'new new new.' I'm not a genius. A little twist.

  Masaharu Morimoto

  Mean, Italian, Thinking

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• All of us, who are members of the Germanic peoples, can be happy and thankful that once in thousands of years fate has given us, from among the Germanic peoples, such a genius, a leader, our Fuehrer Adolf Hitler, and you should be happy to be allowed to work with us.

  Heinrich Himmler

  Fate, Years, History

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• If I had to characterize one quality as the genius of feminist thought, culture, and action, it would be the connectivity.

  Robin Morgan

  Inspiring, Feminist, Quality

  Robin Morgan (2014). “The Demon Lover: The Roots of Terrorism”, p.53, Open Road Media

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• I quite liked Sharkey and George and then there was a cartoon with rapper MC Hammer in it - Hammertime - I loved that cartoon, it was genius! They don't make cartoons like that anymore.

  Robert Pattinson

  Life, Rapper, Cartoon

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• On June 22, 2008, at the age of 71, an American revolutionary died. He was a bona fide genius, an outspoken critich, a literary giant and an unprecedented visionary. For 50 years he entertained, challenged and amazed not only my generation, but also ones before mine and well after. He was sensational, brilliant, iconic and unique - the quintessential individual. He was my lifelong hero. His name was George Carlin.

  Corey Taylor

  Hero, Memorable, Unique

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• The genius writer was correct. In obtaining freedom, man suddenly understands that he has shouldered a heavy burden, because freedom involves responsibility. A person must make decisions himself and himself answer for them.

  Alexander Lukashenko

  Memorable, Responsibility, Men

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• It requires more than mere genius to be an author.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Writing, Mere

  "The "Characters" of Jean de la Bruyère". "Of the Works of the Spirit". Book by Jean de la Bruyère. Translated by Henri Van Laun, 1885.

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• The moment of recognizing your own lack of talent is a flash of genius.

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

  Writing, Talent, Moments

  "Unkempt Thoughts" as translated by Jacek Galazka, 1962.

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• Books -lighthouses erected in the great sea of time -books, the precious depositories of the thoughts and creations of genius -books, by whose sorcery times past become time present, and the whole pageantry of the world's history moves in solemn procession before our eyes, -these were to visit the firesides of the humble and lavish the treasures of the intellect upon the poor.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Time, Moving, Book

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• Sultan Khan had become champion of India at Indian chess and he learned the rules of our form of chess at a later date. The fact that even under such conditions he succeeded in becoming champion reveals a genius for chess which is nothing short of extraordinary.

  Jose Raul Capablanca

  Champion, India, Chess

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• Capablanca was snatched too early from the chess world. With his death we have lost a great chess genius, the like of whom we will never see again.

  Alexander Alekhine

  World, Chess, Lost

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• I have known many chess players, but among them there has been only one genius - Capablanca!

  Emanuel Lasker

  Player, Chess, Capablanca

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• Morphy was probably the greatest genius of them all

  Bobby Fischer

  Chess

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• Nature is the armory of genius. Cities serve it poorly, books and colleges at second hand; the eye craves the spectacle of the horizon; of mountain, ocean, river and plain, the clouds and stars; actual contact with the elements, sympathy with the seasons as they rise and roll.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Nature, Stars, Ocean

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1868). “Tablets”, p.123

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