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"If the genius of invention were to reveal to-morrow the secret of immortality, of eternal beauty and youth, for which all humanity is aching, the same inexorable agents which prevent a mass from changing suddenly its velocity would likewise resist the force of the new knowledge until time gradually modifies human thought."
"My evil genius Procrastination has whispered me to tarry 'til a more convenient season."
"Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire."
"I'm not a genius. I'm just a hard-working guy."
"Genius abhors consensus because when consensus is reached, thinking stops. Stop nodding your head."
"And is he honest who resists his genius or conscience only for the sake of present ease or gratification"
"Peter had a genius for imitation; but he lacked true genius, which is creative and makes all from nothing."
"Genius is what a man invents when he is looking for a way out."
"Patience is eternal genius"
"Genius is when an idea and the execution of that idea are simultaneous."
"Passion is the genesis of genius."
"Genius is only the power of making continuous efforts."
"Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth."
"To be bound by traditional martial art style or styles is the way of the mindless, enslaved martial artist. But to be inspired by the traditional martial art and to achieve further heights is the way of genius."
"Genius always finds itself a century too early."
"Genius is finding the invisible link between things."
"Genius discovers a system; average talent stereotypes it till it is shattered by fresh genius."
"Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities."
"Mankind must work continually to produce individual great human beings - this and nothing else is the task... for the question is this : How can your life, the individual life, retain the highest value, the deepest significance? Only by living for the good of the rarest and most valuable specimens."
"The definition of genius is taking the complex and making it simple."
