#genius

You go to college not only for the latest knowledge but also to meet people from different backgrounds. That's the genius of the American higher-education system compared with the Europeans'. We don't simply skim the elite. ↗

— Donna Shalala

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The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water. ↗

— Stendhal

#art #come #finds #genius #hell

All the genius I have lies in this; when I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly. ↗

— Alexander Hamilton Stephens

#hand #i #lies #profoundly #study

I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the variety of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust. ↗

— Igor Stravinsky

#exhaust #genius #human #i #know

I figured if the plane goes down, I'll go with a great genius and will always have my name connected with his. ↗

— Matthew Sweet

#connected #down #figured #genius #go

I am the farthest thing from a computer genius. ↗

— Jonathan Brandis

#computer #farthest #genius #i #i am

The difference between being able to understand something and inventing it in the first place... is called genius. ↗

— Craig Bruce

#being #between #called #difference #first

In order to share one's true brilliance one initially has to risk looking like a fool: genius is like a wheel that spins so fast, it at first glance appears to be sitting still. ↗

— Criss Jami

#determination #first-impression #fool #foolish #genius

When a great genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign; that the dunces are all in confederacy against him." [Thoughts on Various Subjects] ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#genius #stupidity #christianity

Genius' was a word loosely used by expatriot Americans in Paris and Rome, between the Versailles Peace treaty and the Depression, to cover all varieties of artistic, literary and musical experimentalism. A useful and readable history of the literary Thirties is Geniuses Together by Kay Boyle-Joyce, Hemingway, Scott Fitzgerald, Pound, Eliot and the rest. They all became famous figures but too many of them developed defects of character-ambition, meanness, boastfulness, cowardice or inhumanity-that defrauded their early genius. Experimentalism is a quality alien to genius. It implies doubt, hope, uncertainty, the need for group reassurance; whereas genius works alone, in confidence of a foreknown result. Experiments are useful as a demonstration of how not to write, paint or compose if one's interest lies in durable rather than fashionable results; but since far more self-styled artists are interested in frissons á la mode rather than in truth, it is foolish to protest. Experimentalism means variation on the theme of other people's uncertainties. ↗

— Robert Graves

#experimentalism #fitzgerald #genius #hemingway #pound