Gene Wilder
Actor, comedian
"For what we are about to see next, we must enter quietly into the realm of genius!"
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Ada Lovelace
Mathematician, Writer
"The more I study, the more insatiable do I feel my genius for it to be."
Albert Einstein
Physicist
"Genius is making complex ideas simple, not making simple ideas complex"
Woody Guthrie
Singer-Songwriter
"Any fool can make something complicated. It takes a genius to make it simple."
Jay-Z
Rapper, Businessman
"The genius thing that we did was, we didn't give up."
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"Adversity is the midwife of genius"
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"Genius and madness have something in common: both live in a world that is different from that which exists for everyone else."
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"Genius is the ability to hold one's vision steady until it becomes reality"
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"The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor; it is the one thing that cannot be learned from others; and it is also a sign of genius, since a good metaphor implies an intuitive perception of the similarity of the dissimilar."
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"Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect."
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"Cultivated mind is the guardian genius of democracy."
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"The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima."
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"Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one."
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"There's a genius in all of us."
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"For me to say I wasn't a genius I'd just be lying to you and to myself"
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"It is true that we cannot make a genius. We can only give to teach child the chance to fulfil his potential possibilities."
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"Organizations cannot make a genius out of an incompetent. On the other hand, disorganization can scarcely fail to result in efficiency."
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"It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but that you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it."
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"Man is a genius when he dreams. Dream what you are capable of. The harder you dream it, the sooner it will come true."
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"A genius is a talented person who does his homework."
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"Persuading the people to vote against their own best interests has been the awesome genius of the American political elite from the beginning."
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"Conceit spoils the finest genius."
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"There's a stark difference between the words 'prodigy' and 'genius.' Prodigies can very quickly learn what other people have already figured out; geniuses discover that which no one has ever previously discovered. Prodigies learn; geniuses do."
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"A genius is simply one who has taken full possession of his own mind and directed it toward objectives of his own choosing, without permitting outside influences to discourage or mislead him."
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"Oh! how near are genius and madness! Men imprison them and chain them, or raise statues to them."
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