#genius

What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road empirically, following one's nose, taking shortcuts. ↗

— Italo Calvino

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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

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People of humor are always in some degree people of genius. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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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

#dream #even #framework #genius #graduate

Genius is immediate, but talent takes time. ↗

— Janet Flanner

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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

#falsehood #fool #foolish #genius #honesty

There's a perceived inverse relation between looks and talent. Look at Charlize Theron - she made herself ugly for 'Monster' and suddenly everyone said 'she's a genius.' It shouldn't be like that. ↗

— Lena Headey

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The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category. ↗

— Adolf Hitler

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As actors, we deal with rejection so much more than any other business. So I don't care how much of a genius you are, if you don't have the propensity to be able to get back up every time you get knocked down, then you're not going to survive. ↗

— Ryan Kwanten

#any #back #back up #business #care

Taste is the fundamental quality which sums up all the other qualities. It is the nec plus ultra of the intelligence. Through this alone is genius the supreme health and balance of all the faculties. ↗

— Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont

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