"There's a genius part of you that wants to create. That part of you wants to talk to God. Get out of the way."
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"We don't train executives, we find them. If a mountain stands up like Everest, you don't have to be a genius to figure out that it's a high mountain."
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"A genius is a genius, regardless of the number of morons who belong to the same race - and a moron is a moron, regardless of the number of geniuses who share his racial origin."
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"He thinks too much. Such men are dangerous."
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"I'm going to live forever. Geniuses don't die."
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"Genius has to pass over madness and madness over genius"
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"Geniuses must never die, the progress of mankind depends on us"
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"Genius is saying what is in your heart, because it's in everyone's heart."
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"One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible."
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"Artistic judgments are silly if expressed as dogmas, at least until we get an "artometer" which can measure objectively how many micro-michelangelos or kilo-homers of genius a given artifact has in it."
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"What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road empirically, following one's nose, taking shortcuts."
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"It is the privilege of true genius, And especially genius who opens up a new path, To make great mistakes with impunity"
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"We are all geniuses when we dream."
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"The lucky person passes for a genius."
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"Beauty like hers is genius."
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"The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action."
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"The ultimate trick is to convince, persuade. Every single person out there is an idiot, but collectively they're a genius."
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"Every writer, big or small, needs to say or write that the genius is always hissed at by his contemporaries. Naturally, this is not true, it happens only occasionally and often by chance. But this need within the writer is enlightening."
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"The greatest thing by far is to have a command of metaphor. This alone cannot be imparted by another; it is the mark of genius, for to make good metaphors implies an eye for resemblances."
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"Every great genius has an admixture of madness."
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