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Maybe you can make art out of unredeemed pain, but only if you're a genius -- Dostoyevsky perhaps.

The genius of man is hidden in the silent, settled state of mind from where every thought emerges.

Every positive value has its price in negative terms... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

Genius abhors consensus because when consensus is reached, thinking stops. Stop nodding your head.

Everything Will Ferrell says during scenes is so funny and so natural. I was amazed at his genius.

It is possible that the production of genius is reserved to a limited period of mankind's history.

What is genius, anyway, if it isn't the ability to give an adequate response to a great challenge?

I don't have a lot of respect for talent. Talent is genetic. It's what you do with it that counts.

It is quite possible for the vulgar to be funny, but to succeed, it must rise to a certain genius.

We can all be geniuses because one definition of genius is the infinite capacity for taking pains.

Only a man who has loved a woman of genius can appreciate what happiness there is in loving a fool.

Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy.

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

To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.

There's a thin line between genius and insanity - and I always get labelled as being the crazy one.

Of the three prerequisites of genius; the first is soul; the second is soul; and the third is soul.

Young men and young women, full of courage, originality, and genius, are everywhere to be met with.

No kid is unsmart. Every kid's a genius at something. Our job is to find it. And then encourage it.

Music is not a science any more than poetry is. It is a sublime instinct, like genius of all kinds.

Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.

It is useless to deny that, unless one has a genius for imparting knowledge, teaching is a drudgery.

Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds

The greatest genius will not be worth much if he pretends to draw exclusively from his own resources

The free sharing and teaching of open source is incompatible with the notion of the solitary genius.

There's a lot of controversy online, some people say i'm a genius and other say i'm hugely talented.

It is personality with a penny's worth of talent. Error which chances to rise above the commonplace.

The richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds.

Time, place, and action may with pains be wrought, but genius must be born; and never can be taught.

The poets scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death.

The only way you can get good, unless you're a genius, is to copy. That's the best thing. Just steal.

This is the method of genius, to ripen fruit for the crowd by those rays of whose heat they complain.

Genius is inconsiderate, self-relying, and, like unconscious beauty, without any intention to please.

In politics, as in fishing, you don't have to be a genius. You just have to be smarter than the fish.

…because talent isn't genius, and no amount of energy can make it so. I want to be great, or nothing.

I don't want to think that I am going to believe that I am a hell of a genius, or anything like that.

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

Sometimes the hardest thing about committing the perfect crime can be keeping your genius to yourself.

Individuality is either the mark of genius or the reverse. Mediocrity finds safety in standardization.

Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there.

The Athanasian Creed is the most splendid ecclesiastical lyric ever poured forth by the genius of man.

Sometimes [genius] is just the thing that emerges after twenty years of working at your kitchen table.

The poets' scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death.

I went to a French school, so we didn't study Bram Stoker there. I just thought it was a genius thing.

The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities

I love the beginning of Magnolia, the thing about the dealer. That scene is genius. Brilliantly acted.

Genius disregards the boundaries of propriety. Genius is permitted to shout if shouting is productive.

Confidence breeds success & success breeds confidence... Confidence applied properly surpasses genius.

At home I have a Tibetan terrier. I'm still not sure if he's a genius or very thick. It's a fine line.

UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity.

But the higher a man mounts, the greater may be his fall; all genius is a conquering of chaos, mystery.

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