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That's the great thing about being a teenager. You think you're a genius.
Daveed Diggs
Great
You
Genius
Think
Teenager
About
Great Thing
Being
Being A Teenager
Thing
Maybe you've decided you're not a genius, that you're not brilliant, that you're not prosperous, that you're not wonderful, that you're not lovable. Well, you know what? You're both: you're unlovable and you are lovable. And they both need equal time.
Debbie Ford
Time
You
Genius
Wonderful
Brilliant
Unlovable
Both
Prosperous
Know
Equal
Well
Lovable
Maybe
Decided
Need
I feel genius in great works of art. I have seen medical cures that science can't explain, some seemingly triggered by faith. The same is true of millions of other people.
Deepak Chopra
Art
Faith
Great
Science
People
Genius
Seen
Other
Some
Seemingly
True
Feel
Cures
Same
Explain
Works
Medical
Millions
Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.
Denis Diderot
Genius
World
Evil
Other
Some
Through
Always
Up
Turns
Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.
Denis Diderot
Quality
Genius
Men
Machine
Some
Always
Gaiety
Ordinary
Ordinary Men
Disorder
UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity.
Dennis Ritchie
You
Genius
Simple
Simplicity
System
Operating
Operating System
Understand
Basically
UNIX
What most readers do not realize is that it takes a particular genius to write funny, to satirize.
F. Sionil Jose
Funny
Genius
Write
Takes
Particular
Most
Readers
Realize
Music is like the genius of humankind, universal... People who have never really taken the time to get into music, their lives are a lot smaller. Kids deserve the richness and dimension of it in their lives.
Flea
Music
Time
People
Genius
Dimension
Kids
Never
Taken
Smaller
Like
Lot
Get
Really
Richness
Who
Deserve
Lives
Humankind
Universal
Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.
Henri Bergson
Humanity
Genius
Learn
Forces
Inertia
Which
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
Me
Genius
Opportunities
Will
Variety
Never
Know
Exhaust
Offer
Human
Rhythm
Notes
Twelve
Each
In this world no one rules by love; if you are but amiable, you are no hero; to be powerful, you must be strong, and to have dominion you must have a genius for organizing.
John Henry Newman
Love
You
Genius
World
Strong
Hero
Be Strong
Rules
Must
No-One
Powerful
Dominion
Organizing
Amiable
One of the strongest characteristics of genius is the power of lighting its own fire.
John W. Foster
Genius
Fire
Power
Own
Characteristics
Strongest
Lighting
Better beware of notions like genius and inspiration; they are a sort of magic wand and should be used sparingly by anybody who wants to see things clearly.
Jose Ortega y Gasset
Genius
Better
See
Magic
Magic Wand
Inspiration
Clearly
Beware
Like
Sort
Wand
Anybody
Wants
Sparingly
Should
Used
Notions
Who
Things
Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius.
Josh Billings
Genius
Sense
Enough
Instinct
Common
Common Sense
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
You
People
Genius
Dance
Single
Every
Back
Find
Part
Step
Because
Ultimate
Movement
Realize
Really
Body
Use
Expression
Watch
Genius can probably run on ahead and seek out new ways. But the good artists who follow after genius - and I count myself among these - have to restore the lost connection once more.
Kathe Kollwitz
Myself
Good
Genius
Lost
Once
Once More
Ways
Out
Run
Follow
Seek
Restore
More
Count
New
New Ways
Artists
After
Good Artists
Who
Connection
Among
I'm all in favor of the democratic principle that one idiot is as good as one genius, but I draw the line when someone takes the next step and concludes that two idiots are better than one genius.
Leo Szilard
Good
Genius
Better
Idiot
Draw
Favor
Someone
Step
Takes
Democratic
Principle
Idiots
Line
Than
Next
Next Step
Two
Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long; even if it is, the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one, and the great charm of all power is modesty.
Louisa May Alcott
Great
Genius
Will
Long
Power
Goodness
Danger
Possessing
Finest
Charm
Spoils
Conceit
Talent
Well
Real
Overlooked
Modesty
Much
Should
Using
Even
Satisfy
Consciousness
To understand Europe, you have to be a genius - or French.
Madeleine Albright
You
Genius
French
Understand
Europe
Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which you and I size people up.
Max Beerbohm
Character
You
People
Genius
Men
Thinking
High
Trivial
Instinct
Judges
Up
Quick
Size
Blunt
Which
Deep
Imagining
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
Genius
Say
Would
Rather
True
True Genius
Tall
Normal
Than
Oh
Short
Near
While Napoleon believed his fortunes to be governed by destiny, his real genius lay in self-control and martial daring coupled with an indomitable will to power.
Michael Dirda
Genius
Will
Power
Destiny
Daring
Martial
Lay
Self-Control
Indomitable
Coupled
Napoleon
Real
Governed
His
While
Fortunes
Believed
Only a genius can play a fool.
Michael Rapaport
Fool
Genius
Only
Play
Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.
Oliver Goldsmith
Good
Learning
Genius
Better
Gives
Puzzle
Maintain
Discerning
Nonsense
Brain
Liquor
Grammar
What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again, from zero.
Pablo Picasso
Day
Great
Genius
Will
Become
Everything
Some
He
Taken
Disappears
Trace
Without
Boy
Real
Up
Begin
Child
Precocious
May
Childhood
Happen
Again
Might
Then
Painter
Even
Zero
Grows
Poesy must not be drawn by the ears: it must be gently led, or rather, it must lead, which was partly the cause that made the ancient learned affirm it was a divine, and no human skill, since all other knowledges lie ready for any that have strength of wit; a poet no industry can make, if his own genius be not carried into it.
Philip Sidney
Strength
Lie
Genius
Cause
Made
Poet
Own
Other
Ears
Drawn
Ancient
Carried
Must
Rather
Divine
Lead
Since
Wit
Make
Partly
Industry
Learned
Gently
Ready
His
Led
Affirm
Any
Human
Which
Skill
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