"I did not consider him to be any kind of a genius. I considered him deeply lacking in the area that mattered most in life. Star quality."
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"Genius is talent provided with ideals."
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"We allow no geniuses around our Studio."
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"Ages are All Equal. / But Genius is Always Above The Age."
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"Don't be a genius, my son, it isn't good for anybody."
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"Genius: the superhuman in man."
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"Genius is rare because the means of becoming one have not been available"
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"Genius is the power to labor better and more availably. Deserve thy genius: exalt it."
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"We owe to genius always the same debt, of lifting the curtain from the common, and showing us that divinities are sitting disguised in the seeming gang of gypsies and peddlars."
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"Genius is that energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates."
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"It's a pity one can't imagine what one can't compare to anything. Genius is an African who dreams up snow."
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"I do most anxiously wish to see the highest degrees of education given to the higher degrees of genius and to all degrees of it, so much as may enable them to read and understand what is going on in the world and to keep their part of it going on right; for nothing can keep it right but their own vigilant and distrustful superintendence."
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"Sleeping is the height of genius"
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"Simplicity is the trademark of GENIUS"
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"You can't get to genius on a platform of excuses."
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"Every single person in the world could be a genius at something, if they practiced it daily for at least ten years (as confirmed by the research of Anders Ericsson and others)."
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"Without patience, there can be no genius"
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"Though He did what he could to help the multitudes, He had to devote Himself primarily to a few men, rather than the masses, so that the masses could at last be saved. This was the genius of his strategy."
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"One must indeed be ignorant of the methods of genius to suppose that it allows itself to be cramped by forms. Forms are for mediocrity, and it is fortunate that mediocrity can act only according to routine. Ability takes its flight unhindered."
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"Genius is merely the capacity for taking infinite pains."
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