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Try to begin things you feel you can do. To begin is enough-there is a boldness in beginning. And in boldness lies genius and magic. — Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet

A man who is a genius and doesn't know it, probably isn't. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Genius does not care much for a set of explicit regulations, but that does not mean that genius is lawless. — Charles Henry Parkhurst

Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded. — Charlie Chaplin

Everyone said, 'Emil, you are a fool!'
But when I first won the European Championship, they said: 'Emil, you are a genius!' — Emil Zatopek

There is no so wretched and coarse a soul wherein some particular faculty is not seen to shine. — Michel De Montaigne

I guess a certain amount of temperament is expected of Chess geniuses — Ronald Gross

There is no great genius without a mixture of madness — Aristotle.

Because you are a great lord, you believe yourself to be a great genius. You took the trouble to be born, but no more. — Pierre Beaumarchais

You see Miss Gertrude is a genius. And a genius is a genius. So what if no one understands a word she writes. Some day they might. — Jonah Winter

One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible. — Simone De Beauvoir

When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

True genius walks along a line, and, perhaps, our greatest pleasure is in seeing it so often near falling, without being ever actually down. — Oliver Goldsmith

A genius is a mentally ill person with an audience — Tim Minchin

I mean, Tarantino is such a SHMUCK 90 percent of the time. But ten percent of the time, I've seen genius shining off the guy. — David Foster Wallace

Within IBM at that time, growing a beard without getting fired was an indisputable mark of technical genius. In — Gerald M. Weinberg

To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

One of my top 10 favorite movies of all time was 'South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut.' 'Team America' is a work of genius to me. — Josh Gad

Even if there are instances in which it can be mistook by onlookers, never fool yourself into using misunderstood genius as an excuse to be a fool. — Criss Jami

Every student deserves to be treated as a potential genius. — Anton Ehrenzweig

Everyone thinks their baby is a genius. People find it delightfully refreshing when I tell them, My baby? Totally average. Like, 100 percent average. — Ryan Reynolds

Questioning a genius with logic limits his imagination. — Vasilios Karpos

Pain jabbed Janco where the lower half of his right ear used to be. He rubbed the scar. "Now, I'm not a genius - "
"Got that right," Ari mumbled. — Maria V. Snyder

A genius who does not know that he is a genius is no genius. — Mary MacLane

Your insecurity and neediness is what makes you a big neurotic ball of comedy genius. — Marc Maron

I'm solitary as a pulled tooth, Lonely as an unwelcome truth, Lost as a minnow out of school, A genius in a crop of fools. — Gail Carson Levine

My genius is not so frail a thing that it cowers from the dirty fingers of newspapernen. — Diane Setterfield

Even a genius cannot completely resist his Zeitgeist, the spirit of his time. — Viktor E. Frankl

Was he smart? No, not exceptionally. Instead, he was a genius. — Walter Isaacson

We have to work harder to develop a profound theology of women within the church. The feminine genius is needed wherever we make important decisions. — Pope Francis

Now I am a genius; before that I was a drudge. — Niccolo Paganini

Being sixteen means you have to be a genius conversational editor. — Maureen Johnson

Woman, in short, has an unconscious life, man a conscious life, and the genius the most conscious life. — Otto Weininger

Voldimort wuz wearing a blak leather Jackson, blak tight jeans and fishnet pantz. He looked so sexah I almost had an orgy!!!! — Tara Gilesbie

A touch of genius is better than a punch of talent. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Genius may be a necessary precondition for creating a masterpiece but it's never a sufficient one. — James Shapiro

Art is a point of view, and a genius way of looking at things. — Henry James

Inventive genius requires pleasurable mental activity as a condition for its vigorous exercise — Alfred North Whitehead

If you can be kind to people, you will be a genius in this world. — Bryant McGill

We will have a new Taylor album in October. The record is genius. I can't wait for the fans to hear it. — Scott Borchetta

I'm not a genius. I'm just a hard-working guy. — Brian Wilson

I am not worthy to be on a Mariah Carey record. She's a true artist, so I just step back and watch the genius occur. — Nick Cannon

A possible link between 'madness' and genius is one of the oldest and most persistent of cultural notions. — Kay Redfield Jamison

The very thrills of genius are disorganizing. The body is never quite acclimated to its atmosphere, but how often, succumbs and goes into a decline. — Henry David Thoreau

David Ortiz is a genius. He's incredible to watch. Over and over, he hits home runs that are simply transcendent. — Juliana Hatfield

The probability that a genius can do stupid things is much higher than the probability that a stupid can do genius things. — Mehmet Murat Ildan

They think I'm crazy, and maybe I am. But maybe I'm a genius. — Mel Gibson

Women have a genius for love; men can only learn the art indifferently. — Joseph De Maistre

My genius from a boy
Has fluttered like a bird within my heart;
But could not thus confined her power employ,
Impatient to depart. — George Moses Horton

That's when I heard the sounds of a certified genius spinning around in circles like a dog chasing its tail. — Ally Carter

For a genius to be a genius, he must have a selfless slave between himself and the world. — Dawn Powell

Genius does not need to be validated, it just needs a legal pad and a pen. — Tom Althouse

Genius does not need a special language; it uses newly whatever tongue it finds. — Edmund Clarence Stedman

The fine line between genius and madness is a punch line. Duck, you idiot! — Brian Spellman

Vance has a genius in evoking the beauty of strangeness, the strangeness of beauty. — Jack Vance

Darwin said if you made a list of eminent men, next of a list of eminent women, it was obvious that men were better at everything. — Jacky Fleming

The unrecognized genius-that's one old story. Have you ever thought of a much worse one-the genius recognized too well? — Ayn Rand

Sometimes she arches away from me and wears a light halo of genius about her. — Priya Parmar

Plague might be a social incompetent, but he was unquestionably a genius. — Stieg Larsson

He's a smart guy, but I think I'm a genius. — Nonito Donaire

No one can resist the idea of a crippled genius. — Stephen Hawking

I beg you, help me, in angelic charity,
Pray my efforts will reflect your mastery! — E.A. Bucchianeri

Chris Brown is a star. He's a genius. Anybody should want to work with him. He makes hits. — Juicy J

It is less difficult for a woman to obtain celebrity by her genius than to be forgiven for it. — Jacques Pierre Brissot

Nothing is more piquant than when a man of genius possesses mannerisms; not so when they possess him
this leads to spiritual petrification. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Her mom had become some sort of a genius double agent since she hooked up with Richie. It was like she was keeping them all alive behind his back. — Rainbow Rowell

I went to a French school, so we didn't study Bram Stoker there. I just thought it was a genius thing. — Oliver Jackson-Cohen

Every person, genius or moron, has a right to reproduce himself. — Lee Kuan Yew

There's an old saying," Buck said. "A hundred things can go wrong in a holdup, and if you can think of fifty of them you're a damn genius. — James Carlos Blake

Some people think I'm a mythical genius, others think I'm a junkie madman. — Keith Richards

Courage is seeking a rainbow within a storm.
Genius is finding it. — Manoj Vaz

All geniuses are not successful just like all successful people are not geniuses. I would rather be successful than a genius. — Majid Kazmi

Great. So he's a genius. Fifty points for Ivanclaw. — Margaret Stohl

Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet. — Novalis

I love Stewart Lee's 'Comedy Vehicle' on BBC2. The guy is a genius. — Jez Butterworth

Genius is a light which makes the darkness visible, like the lightning's flash, which perchance shatters the temple of knowledge itself. — Henry David Thoreau

Richard Avedon is a true genius of photography and one of the greatest artists of our time. — Donatella Versace

If you are delusional, sometimes the reality catches up with your delusion, and then all of a sudden you are a genius. — Jason Calacanis

A man of genius is inexhaustible only in proportion as he is always renourishing his genius. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

There are some cloudy days for the mind as well as for the world; and the man who has the most genius is twenty times a day in the clouds. — Laurent Angliviel De La Beaumelle

Talent only gives an imperfect image--the broken glimmer of a countenance. But the features of Genius remain unruffled. — Robert Eldridge Aris Willmott

It is the melody which is the charm of music, and it is that which is most difficult to produce. The invention of a fine melody is a work of genius. — Joseph Haydn

Any fool can write a bad advertisement, but it takes a genius to keep his hands off a good one. — David Ogilvy

Thinking you're a genius is death. — John Jeremiah Sullivan

I'm supposed to be a musical genius, but I can't work the car seat that well. — Kanye West

There's a poster with Thomas Edison's quote: GENIUS IS 1 PERCENT INSPIRATION AND 99 PERCENT PERSPIRATION. — Lauren Oliver

If you're speaking of a fantasy player, then it has to be Leo Messi as he's so unpredictable. He's an absolute genius. — Fabio Capello

People hate me because I am a multifaceted, talented, wealthy, internationally famous genius. — Jerry Lewis

Life is a very brief candle especially when you burn it at both ends — Josh Stern

Baby," I said, "I'm a genius but nobody knows it but me. — Charles Bukowski

Exile as a mode of genius no longer exists; in place of Joyce we have the fragments of work appearing in Index on Censorship. — Nadine Gordimer

I am the farthest thing from a computer genius. — Jonathan Brandis

A diamond is just another stone to one who is ignorant of its value. — Matshona Dhliwayo

You don't have to be a genius or a visionary or even a college graduate to be successful. You just need a framework and a dream. — Michael Dell

Genius declares itself to be a kind of higher masculinity. — Otto Weininger

The genius of a folk melody or story is not the feeling that it's original but quite the opposite - the feeling that it has existed all along. — Susan Orlean

When a man of genius appears in the world, it is immediately recognized by the fact that all the blockheads join forces against him. — Jonathan Swift

Gene Roddenberry was a genius. — Persis Khambatta

Ireland is a fruitful mother of genius, but a barren nurse. — John Boyle O'Reilly

Crap was not a bad word. It was the shortened name of the marketing genius of the best known flush toilet, John Crapper. Really. — Faith Hunter