Geniuses Quotes

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Geniuses are people who dash off weird, wild, incomprehensible poems with astonishing facility, & then go & get booming drunk & sleep in the gutter.… — Mark Twain
The great moral teachers of humanity were in a way artistic geniuses in the art of living. — Albert Einstein
Some of you may be perfectly happy with mediocrity. Some of you will get nothing but heartbreak. Some of you will be heralded as geniuses… — Marc Maron
I feel very fortunate to have been associated with people such as Rodgers and Hammerstein. I think they were geniuses of their time. — Shirley Jones
Im doing pretty good as far as geniuses go ... Im like a machine. Im a robot. You cannot offend a robot ... Im going… — Kanye West
Who else but the maestro of mathematical creativity, Clifford Pickover, to curate a museum of Strange Brains and write biographies of the scientific geniuses who… — Mark Frauenfelder
The great geniuses are those who have kept their childlike spirit and have added to it breadth of vision and experience. — Alfred Stieglitz
Chaos breeds geniuses. It offers a man something to be a genius about. — B.F. Skinner
Geniuses are like thunderstorms. They go against the wind, terrify people, cleanse the air. — Soren Kierkegaard
Sex energy is the creative energy of all geniuses. There never has been, and never will be a great leader, builder or artist lacking in… — Napoleon Hill
Crazy people who are productive are geniuses. Crazy people who are rich are eccentric. Crazy people who are neither productive nor rich are just plain… — Michael J. Gelb
Creative geniuses are a slap-happy lot. Treat Them with respect. — James A. Michener
It just was a gradual development over the years. I mean last year was 'all you need is love.' This year, it's 'all you need… — John Lennon
It's going to be like herding stray cats, and the political leaders who can do it will be remembered as the same kind of geniuses… — William H. Calvin
Genius is an overused word. The world has known only about a half dozen geniuses. I got only fairly near. — Fritz Kreisler
There are no such men today. We have created a mechanism that makes it practically impossible for a real genius to appear. In my own… — Erwin Chargaff
Lenny Breau is one of the true geniuses of the guitar. I suppose he is a musician's musician. His knowledge of the instrument and the… — Chet Atkins
The greatest geniuses sometimes accomplish more when they work less. — Leonardo da Vinci
A particularly fine head on a man usually means that he is stupid; particularly deep philosophers are usually shallow thinkers; in literature, talents not much… — Robert Musil
The prevailing view is that geniuses are largely built, not born. — David Brooks

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