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Genius Quotes

Brilliance, and what it takes to keep it.

This page treats genius as something both rare and slightly absurd, a reminder that even a cultivated mind stays subject to ordinary conditions, and a wry claim that monogamy demands more talent than acting does, close to Intelligence quotes.

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To be complex does not mean to be fragmented. This is the paradox and the genius of our Canadian civilization.

Quotes by Adrienne Clarkson

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I have to hold a meeting with the rising generation every evening, and that takes time. Henry can say, 'Twinkle, twinkle,' all himself, and Edward can repeat it after his father! Giants of genius! Paragons of erudition!

Quotes by Adoniram Judson

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I wouldn't say jamie is an evil genius. I'm not sure he's evil and I'm not sure he's a genius.

Quotes by Adam Savage

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The genius of vinyl is that it allows - commands! - us to put our fingerprints all over that history: to blend and chop and reconfigure it, mock and muse upon it, backspin and skip through it.

Quotes by Adam Mansbach

Creativity Quotes

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Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.

Abraham Lincoln

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My favorite types of movies definitely aren't thrillers, but at the same time you can't deny the genius of Hitchcock's films.

Quotes by Aaron Yoo

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Before 'Giant,' I had only ever worked with Michael Greif, Michael John LaChiusa and Kate Baldwin in readings. It's really exciting to be blessed with the opportunity to work with so many I would put in the 'genius' book.

Quotes by Aaron Lazar

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Whether you are a genius or an idiot, a thief or, like me, a Zen priest who has cultivated the mind for 30 years - the mind anyway is subject to conditions.

Quotes by Zoketsu Norman Fischer

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Hollandaise, I would like to pour over my head and just rub all over myself. Eggs Benedict is genius. It's eggs covered in eggs.

Quotes by Wylie Dufresne

Geniuses Quotes

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To appreciate and use correctly a valuable maxim requires a genius; a vital appropriating exercise of mind closely allied to that which first created it.

Quotes by William R. Alger

One line pictures genius shooting rays through clouds before it fully emerges, while another ties business success to tapping a team's collective genius. Related pages: Creativity and Mind.