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Susceptibility to the highest forces is the highest genius. Henry B. Adams | top
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Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long; even if it is, the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one, and the great charm of all power is modesty. Louisa May Alcott | top
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To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent. To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius. Henri Frederic Amiel | top
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Marriage requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy requires genius. Warren Beatty | top
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I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhere. Beck | top
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Talent does what it can; genius does what it must. Robert Bulwer-Lytton | top
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In Goodfellas they have this one scene where the camera goes down some steps and walks through a kitchen into a restaurant and the critics were all over this as evidence of the genius of Scorsese and Scorsese is a genius. Alex Cox | top
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Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline. George Eliot | top
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The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency. Margaret Fuller | top
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I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience. R. Buckminster Fuller | top
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The cult of individuality and personality, which promotes painters and poets only to promote itself, is really a business. The greater the 'genius' of the personage, the greater the profit. George Grosz | top
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Who in the same given time can produce more than others has vigor; who can produce more and better, has talents; who can produce what none else can, has genius. Johann Kaspar Lavater | top
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The burning of an author's books, imprisonment for opinion's sake, has always been the tribute that an ignorant age pays to the genius of its time. Joseph Lewis | top
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When I edit, I'm not from the school of Hello, I'm a genius, so everybody shut up. I'm from the school of Let's play it once in front of an audience, and then I'll tell you where it is going. Garry Marshall | top
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Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam of light on those that are without, while the inhabitant sits in darkness. Hannah More | top
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The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make the rest of us wonder at the possibility that we might be missing something. Gamal Abdel Nasser | top
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If you are a genius, you'll make your own rules, but if not - and the odds are against it - go to your desk no matter what your mood, face the icy challenge of the paper - write. J. B. Priestley | top
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Passion is the genesis of genius. Tony Robbins | top
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No one turns down a film with Woody; it's something everyone wants in their career as an important moment. He's such a comedic genius, without question, so I was thrilled. Mark Rydell | top
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Every true genius is bound to be naive. Friedrich Schiller | top
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Every complete man has his genius. True virtue is genius. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel | top
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The genius of impeachment lay in the fact that it could punish the man without punishing the office. Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. | top
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The genius of our institutions is democratic - baseball is a democratic game. Al Spalding | top
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I mean, Scorsese's a genius, and that's one way of shooting. Stanley Tucci | top
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And we owe science to the combined energies of individual men of genius, rather than to any tendency to progress inherent in civilization. Chauncey Wright | top