#genius

Everybody denies I am a genius - but nobody ever called me one! ↗

— Orson Welles

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Which is why, in my lieder concerts, I always strove, when possible, to sing only the works of a single composer, so that the audience could be gradually drawn into a particular creative genius' way of thinking, and could follow him. ↗

— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

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I realized what you could do in motion pictures by surrounding yourself with geniuses. ↗

— Richard Donner

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No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under a leadership composed of average human beings. ↗

— Peter Drucker

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Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them. ↗

— Albert Einstein

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I have never been an innovator, a creative genius. ↗

— Lawrence Welk

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The genius of our institutions is democratic - baseball is a democratic game. ↗

— Al Spalding

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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

#carrey #comic #desire #funny #genius

The art music of the West has developed through out its history by means of individual geniuses, and out of the soil supporting them; non-Western musicians were born, and grew like the grasses of the field. ↗

— Toru Takemitsu

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Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius. ↗

— George Sand

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