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the possession of wealth, and especially the inheritance of wealth, seems almost invariably to sterilize genius.
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.
The definition of genius, really, should be that that person can do what the rest of us have to learn how to do.
I make no claim to being a business genius. You can make so much money in this business that it loses its value.
Grateful to The Kerry Gaynor Method for saving my manager's life. He quit smoking thanks to their genius Method.
The concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public.
Fortune always will confer an aura of worth, unworthily; and in this world The lucky person passes for a genius.
The deserving are not always blest. That peculiar attribute known as personality is as potent a factor as genius.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is the only musician who had as much knowledge asgenius, and as much genius as knowledge.
If the birth of a genius resembles that of an idiot, the end of a Havana Corona resembles that of a 5-cent cigar.
Genius is a starry word; but if there ever was a chess player to whom that attribute applied, it was Paul Morphy.
You're a genius! And the proof is that both common people and intellectuals find your work completely incoherent.
I am not a genius, I am just curious. I ask many questions. and when the answer is simple, then God is answering.
I don't know yet what I am capable of doing, but, by God, I have genius -- I know it too well to blush behind it.
Any intelligent fool can invent further complications, but it takes a genius to retain, or recapture, simplicity.
But mathematics is the sister, as well as the servant, of the arts and is touched by the same madness and genius.
Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius... he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much.
I'm not a god, I'm not a genius, I'm not a monk, I make non-design for non-consumers. I don't know if I do exist.
The combined wisdom and genius of all mankind cannot possibly conceive of an argument against liberty of thought.
Genius lasts longer than Beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves.
The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency.
Talent wears well, genius wears itself out; talent drives a snug brougham in fact; genius, a sun-chariot in fancy.
It's too bad I'm not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because the world could use a few people like that.
Some have the temperament and tastes of genius, without its creative power. They feel acutely, but express tamely.
It's not like you get up on stage and you're immediately a genius. It takes a long time. So, don't be discouraged.
The difference between being able to understand something and inventing it in the first place... is called genius.
I have learned that any fool can write a bad ad, but that it takes a real genius to keep his hands off a good one.
The power of applying attention, steady and undissipated, to a single object, is the sure mark of superior genius.
A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius.
When a real genius appeares in this world, you'll know him by the fact that all the fools have allied against him.
The gut-feel of the 55-year old trader is more important than the mathematical elegance of the 25-year old genius.
Great genius you already have. The super conscious mind is invariably triggered by definition, and by decisiveness.
The function of genius is not to give new answers, but to pose new questions which time and mediocrity can resolve.
When you're onstage with Chris Rock, anything can happen. He is one of the greatest comic geniuses we've ever seen.
Genius is play, and man's capacity for achieving genius is infinite, and many may achieve genius only through play.
Dryden 's genius was of that sort which catches fire by its own motion; his chariot wheels get hot by driving fast.
It's very important that when you have a designer like Marc Jacobs, who is a genius, you give him complete freedom.
The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in his ideas.
The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.
The perfection of conversational intercourse is when the breeding of high life is animated by the fervor of genius.
True genius repeats itself forever, and never repeats itself--one ever varied sense beams novelty and unity on all.
I believe in the God-given genius of certain individuals, and I value a society that makes their existence possible.
There is one qualification the manager cannot acquire but must bring to the task. It is not genius; it is character.
Aristoteles quidem ait: 'Omnes ingeniosos melancholicos esse.' Aristotle says that all men of genius are melancholy.
Picasso, Michelangelo, possibly, might be verging on genius, but I don't think a painter like Rembrandt is a genius.
The collective dream is the hypnosis of social conditioning. Only sages, psychotics & geniuses manage to break free.
We may be sure that a genius like Mozart, were he born today, would write concertos like Chopin and not like Mozart.
I am not worthy to be on a Mariah Carey record. She's a true artist, so I just step back and watch the genius occur.
A great composition to me is.. an incarnation of a genius, of all that was ever in him of the slightest consequence.
When things don't go well, it helps to think of yourself as a genius and the rest of the world as a bunch of idiots.