Quotes 281 till 300 of 304.
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When Nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
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When thou seest an eagle, thou seest a portion of genius; lift up thy head!
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Whether a person shows themselves to be a genius in science or in writing a song, the only point is, whether the thought, the discovery, or the deed, is living and can live on.
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Who in the same given time can produce more than others has vigor; who can produce more and better, has talents; who can produce what none else can, has genius.
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Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence.
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Why does it so often take a genius to see the obvious?
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Without taste genius is only a sublime kind of folly. That sure touch which the lyre gives back the right note and nothing more, is even a rarer gift than the creative faculty itself.
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Women played no part in Athenian high culture. They could not vote, attend the theatre, or walk in the stoa talking philosophy. But the male orientation of Greek culture was inseparable of its genius. Athens became great not despite but because of its misogyny.
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990) -
Yes; the public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
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Yesterday I was thinking about the whole idea of genius and creative people, and the notion that if you create some magical art, somehow that exempts you from having to pay attention to the small things.
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You can't hang around geniuses forever because they end up taking everything you've got. That's why they're the genius and you're not.
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You may try but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's form of genius in you, and to suffer the slavery of being a girl.
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A popular author is one who writes what the people think. Genius invites them to think something else.
Epigrams (1911) p.356 -
Dali is like a man who hesitates between talent and genius, or, as one might once have said, between vice and virtue.
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Due credit must be paid to the genius of the designers of ALGOL 60 who included recursion in their language and enabled me to describe my invention so elegantly to the world.
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Genius - to know without having learned; to draw just conclusions from unknown premises; to discern the soul of things.
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Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
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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.
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His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.
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