#genius

Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them. ↗

— Joseph Joubert

#begins #finishes #genius #great #labor

If we will maintain our hope and confidence in the genius of our people, they will work out this problem, and their ability and industry will bring us back to normal conditions. ↗

— Frank B. Kellogg

#back #bring #conditions #confidence #genius

People think that computer science is the art of geniuses but the actual reality is the opposite, just many people doing things that build on eachother, like a wall of mini stones. ↗

— Donald Knuth

#art #build #computer #computer science #doing

There has been a time on earth when poets had been young and dead and famous - and were men. But now the poet as the tragic child of grandeur and destiny had changed. The child of genius was a woman, now, and the man was gone. ↗

— Tom Wolfe

#changed #child #dead #destiny #earth

Many now born, by the time they are voters will compose part of a nation with a genius nowhere equaled, and with a vast territory upon which those energies and that genius can operate. ↗

— Richard Parks Bland

#by the time #compose #energies #equaled #genius

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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His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine. ↗

— Thomas A. Edison

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A few of the sublimest geniuses of Rome and Athens had some faint discoveries of the spiritual nature of the human soul, and formed some probable conjectures, that man was designed for a future state of existence. ↗

— David Brainerd

#conjectures #designed #discoveries #existence #faint

Oh, I'm not a true genius. I'm a near genius. I would say I'm a short genius. I'd rather be tall and normal than a short genius. ↗

— Mel Brooks

#i #near #normal #oh #rather

Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them. ↗

— R. Buckminster Fuller

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