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  • The thing about people who are truly and malignantly crazy: their real genius is for making the people around them think they themselves are crazy. In military science this is called Psy-Ops, for your info.

    Crazy   Military   Real  
  • Is it not in the most absolute simplicity that real genius plies its pinions the most wonderfully?

    Real   Simplicity   Plies  
    E. T. A. Hoffmann (2015). “Old and New Church Music (Fantasy and Horror Classics)”, p.12, Read Books Ltd
  • I don't believe in geniuses, I believe in hard work.

  • Nothing is so much coveted by a young man as the reputation of being a genius; and many seem to feel that the want of patience for laborious application and deep research is such a mark of genius as cannot be mistaken: while a real genius, like Sir Isaac Newton, with great modesty says, that the great and only difference between his mind and the minds of others consisted solely in his having more patience.

    Real   Men   Differences  
    John Todd (1856). “The student's manual: designed”, p.23
  • Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

    Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.2, Publishdrive
  • Everyone is a genius at least once a year.

    "Aphorisms". Book by Georg C. Lichtenberg, 1779 - 1788.
  • To be a woman condemned to a wretched and disgraceful punishment is no impediment to beauty, but it is an insurmountable obstacle to power. Like all persons of real genius, her ladyship well knew what accorded with her nature and her means. Poverty disgusted her -subjection deprived her of two-thirds of her greatness. Her ladyship was only a queen amongst queens: the enjoyment of satisfied pride was essential to her sway. To command beings of an inferior nature, was, to her, rather a humiliation than a pleasure.

    Queens   Real   Mean  
  • There are always those who would put on armour and go into battle. but the real genius is in finding a way to get what you desire without dying for it.

    Real   Dying   Desire  
  • Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine.

    Real   Genius   Moral  
    Edmund Wilson (2007). “Literary Essays and Reviews of the 1930s & 40s”
  • 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 field the biochemist Fritz Lipmann or the much maligned Linus Pauling were very talented people. But generally, geniuses everywhere seem to have died out by 1914. Today, most are mediocrities blown up by the winds of the time.

    Real   Men   Wind  
  • If you think that by threatening me you can get me to do what you want... well, that's where you're right. But - and I am only saying this because I care - there's a lot of decaffeinated brands on the market that are just as tasty as the real thing.

  • Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.

    Wisdom   Real   Years  
  • When a real genius appeares in this world, you'll know him by the fact that all the fools have allied against him.

    Real   Genius   World  
  • Anyone who says the American Constitution is obsolete just because social and economic conditions have changed does not understand the real genius of the Constitution. It was designed to control something which has not changed and will not change—namely, human nature.

    Change   Real   Usa  
    W. Cleon Skousen “The Five Thousand Year Leap”, Verity Publishing
  • People say i am a genius. I might be one but i am not the only one. There are many other Pakistani girls and boys like me. All those gems need, is a little bit of polishing. And I will do it. That's my aim

  • Many a real genius is lost in the fictitious character of the Gentleman. I am the most inconsistent, changeable being so full of fits and starts.

    Letter to William Jackson of Exeter; as cited in "The Letters of Thomas Gainsborough", ed. Mary Woodall, 1961, September 14, 1767.
  • Man's real genius and knowledge remains preserved in books

    Real   Book   Men  
  • Alekhine's real genius is in the preparation and construction of a position, long before combinations or mating attacks come into consideration at all.

    Real   Long   Preparation  
  • Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.

    Simone Weil (2015). “Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings”, p.25, Wipf and Stock Publishers
  • Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.

    Real   Writing   Genius  
  • The real geniuses know where their writing has to be good and where they can get away with some mediocrity.

    Real   Writing   Genius  
    "Composers On Music: Eight Centuries of Writings". Book by Josiah Fisk, p. 355. In conversation with Isaac Glikman (July 4, 1966), January 30, 1997.
  • God gives talent. Work transforms talent into genius.

  • I was thinking of the immortal words of Socrates when he said...I drank what?

  • The unconscious self is the real genius. Your breathing goes wrong the moment your conscious self meddles with it.

    Real   Self   Breathing  
    George Bernard Shaw (2015). “George Bernard Shaw: Collected Articles, Lectures, Essays and Letters: Thoughts and Studies from the Renowned Dramaturge and Author of Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Pygmalion, Arms and The Man, Saint Joan, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion”, p.313, e-artnow
  • Everybody wants to rule the world.

  • The real genius to make a marketplace flourish doesn't come from the government. It comes from the individual genius of its people.

    FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Feb 01, 2012
  • I did not go to Boston, for with regard to that place I sympathize with one of my neighbors, an old man, who has not been there since the last war, when he was compelled to go. No, I have a real genius for staying at home.

    Real   War   Home  
    Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Familiar Letters (Annotated Edition)”, p.194, Jazzybee Verlag
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