"I never said I was a genius. I never said I was a cornerstone. I've never said I'm a legend in my own time. You never heard me say nothing like that."
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"Art Tatum -- he was a genius. And Einstein, not me."
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"Genius is 99% perspiration and 1% inspiration."
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"The genius of architecture seems to have shed its maledictions over this land."
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"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."
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"Genius is in the idea. Impact, however, comes from action!"
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"Aside from a cold appreciation of my own genius I felt that I was a modest man."
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"Genius never desires what does not exist."
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"Instead of labeling and discriminating against one or the other, we need to learn to blend our gifts and complement our geniuses."
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"I strongly urge students to learn to take risks, to be bold, to let their genius convert that fear into power and brilliance."
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"You may have genius. The contrary is, of course, probable."
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"The first method is that of a schemer and leads only to mediocre results; the other method is the path of genius and changes the face of the world."
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"The seventh factor of the basic ingredients of genius, as determined from an extensive analysis of the lives of outstanding men of this nation, is *the habit of going the extra mile.* You will never be a genius unless you make it a habit to do more and better than you are paid to do, every single day of your life."
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"Genius learns from nature, its own nature. Talent learns from art."
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"Difficulty is what wakes up the genius."
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"No science is speedily learned by the noblest genius without tuition."
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"I probably have genius. But no talent."
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"A man of genius is not a man who sees more than other men do. On the contrary, it is very often found that he is absentminded andobserves much less than other people.... Why is it that the public have such an exaggerated respect for him--after he is dead? The reason is that the man of genius understands the importance of the few things he sees."
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"Andy Warhol is the only genius I've ever known with an IQ of 60."
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"A talent for drama is not a talent for writing, but is ability to articulate human relationships."
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