#genius

When you're young you believe it when people tell you how good you are. And that's the danger, you inhale. Everyone will tell you you're a genius, which you are not, and if you understand that, you win. ↗

— George Clooney

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To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#genius #man #put #school #sentence

Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence. ↗

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

#makes #moment #prudence #quick #use

Time, place, and action may with pains be wrought, but genius must be born; and never can be taught. ↗

— John Dryden

#born #genius #may #must #never

A man possesses talent; genius possesses the man. ↗

— Isaac Stern

#man #possesses #talent

Genius is another word for magic, and the whole point of magic is that it is inexplicable. ↗

— Margot Fonteyn

#genius #inexplicable #magic #point #whole

If a professional musician in a symphony orchestra is playing Beethoven. But this particular orchestra have played this particular chestnut so many times, they can play it in their sleep. Does the genius remain present in the music or not? ↗

— Robert Fripp

#does #genius #many #music #musician

When you step back and watch people, you realize that we use every single body part. Movement, dance - I find it genius because it's ultimate expression, really. ↗

— Jude Law

#because #body #dance #every #expression

What the world needs is more geniuses with humility; there are so few of us left. ↗

— Oscar Levant

#geniuses #humility #left #more #needs

Adlai Stevenson has a genius for saying the right thing, at the right time, to the wrong people. ↗

— Joe E. Lewis

#genius #people #right #right thing #right time