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Pretend you're a genius, then act like one.
Editi Effiong
Genius
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Confidence breeds success and success breeds confidence. Confidence applied properly surpasses genius.
Mike Tyson
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The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor; it is the one thing that cannot be learned from others; and it is also a sign of genius, since a good metaphor implies an intuitive perception of the similarity of the dissimilar.
Aristotle
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The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.
Aldous Huxley
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Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
Calvin Coolidge
Education
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Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.
Charles Bukowski
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The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.
Albert Einstein
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Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.
Carl Jung
Between
Human
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Everyone around me says, “You’re a genius! You’re great! That’s your voice! But I’m not sure if they’re right.
Dave Chappelle
Around
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The only geniuses produced by the chaos of society are those who do something about it. Chaos breeds geniuses. It offers a man something to be a genius about.
B. F. Skinner
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We allow no geniuses around our Studio.
Walt Disney
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Around
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Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
William James
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The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people.
Walt Whitman
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There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius
Walt Whitman
About
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The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.
Francis Bacon
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There is genius in persistence. It conquers all opposers. It gives confidence. It annihilates obstacles. Everybody believes in a determined man. People know that when he undertakes a thing, the battle is half won, for his rule is to accomplish whatever he sets out to do.
Orison Swett Marden
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The so-called 'materialistic conception of history,' with the crude elements of genius of the early form which appeared, for instance, in the 'Communist Manifesto,' still prevails only in the minds of laymen and dilettantes.
Max Weber
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Henry Van Dyke
Courage
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The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
Thomas A. Edison
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But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
Carl Sagan
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Columbus
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Charles Bukowski
Almost
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Passion is the genesis of genius.
Tony Robbins
Genesis
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I've never met a genius. A genius to me is someone who does well at something he hates. Anybody can do well at something he loves - it's just a question of finding the subject.
Clint Eastwood
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Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.
Leonardo da Vinci
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It's very important that when you have a designer like Marc Jacobs, who is a genius, you give him complete freedom.
Bernard Arnault
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To see things in the seed, that is genius.
Lao Tzu
Genius
See
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Rising genius always shoots out its rays from among the clouds, but these will gradually roll away and disappear as it ascends to its steady luster.
Washington Irving
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Among
Away
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Thomas Carlyle
Been
Finest
Genius
Humor
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There's a line between being egotistical and being genius or great.
Lecrae
Being
Between
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It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.
Louisa May Alcott
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Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long; even if it is, the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one, and the great charm of all power is modesty.
Louisa May Alcott
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No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for the rich fertility of American political invention.
Lyndon B. Johnson
American
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Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.
Albert Einstein
Geniuses
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Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
Elbert Hubbard
Genius
Handicapped
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A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself
Samuel Johnson
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The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.
Edgar Allan Poe
Everything
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Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.
W. H. Auden
Mortals
Same
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Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
E. B. White
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I am a writer... I am a genius of a writer; I have it in me. I am writing the best poems of my life; they will make my name.
Sylvia Plath
Am
Best
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Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine.
Edmund Wilson
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Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
Vladimir Nabokov
African
Dreams
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Snow
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I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child.
Vladimir Nabokov
Write
Speak
Author
Child
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I wouldn't say jamie is an evil genius. I'm not sure he's evil and I'm not sure he's a genius.
Adam Savage
Evil
Genius
He
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If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
According
Children
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First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Demanded
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Last
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Jim Carrey, a comic genius, has a harder time overcoming the public's desire for him to be funny simply because he's so good at it.
Ben Stiller
Because
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Judge the goodness of a book by the energy of the punches it has given you. I believe the greatest characteristic of genius, is, above all, force.
Gustave Flaubert
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