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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
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
Every student deserves to be treated as a potential genius.
— Anton Ehrenzweig
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
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
Was he smart? No, not exceptionally. Instead, he was a genius.
— Walter Isaacson
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
Inventive genius requires pleasurable mental activity as a condition for its vigorous exercise
— Alfred North Whitehead
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
Women have a genius for love; men can only learn the art indifferently.
— Joseph De Maistre
My genius from a boyHas 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 a special language; it uses newly whatever tongue it finds.
— Edmund Clarence Stedman
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
