#geniuses

We can all be geniuses because one definition of genius is the infinite capacity for taking pains. ↗

— Knute Rockne

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My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water. ↗

— Mark Twain

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Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - either by themselves or by others. ↗

— Mark Twain

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Unfortunately, goodness and honor are rather the exception than the rule among exceptional men, not to speak of geniuses. ↗

— Cesare Lombroso

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It's not that complicated. If you hear something and it makes you want to hear it again, that's the ticket. You have to be lucky enough to find geniuses, welcome them and get out of their way. ↗

— Jerry Moss

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There's a stark difference between the words 'prodigy' and 'genius.' Prodigies can very quickly learn what other people have already figured out; geniuses discover that which no one has ever previously discovered. Prodigies learn; geniuses do. ↗

— John Green

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The purpose of having the orphans study all these diverse fields was not for them to just become geniuses, but to become polymaths – meaning they would be geniuses in a wide variety of fields. ↗

— James Morcan

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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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I've run into certain geniuses of individualism - they are very few and far between - who live their lives completely on their own terms; they are very powerful and have a great amount of happiness. We all should aspire to that. ↗

— David Duchovny

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With the stones we cast at them, geniuses build new roads with them. ↗

— Paul Eldridge

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