The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.
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The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.
Submitted by antoinette about 1 month ago
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Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.
Submitted by Steve Dolan 4 months ago
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"Nothing else in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent."
Submitted by Godgrown 11 months ago
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It used to be that only cheap foreign manual labor was easily available; now cheap foreign genius is easily available
Submitted by overthewire almost 2 years ago
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No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.
Submitted by lbowser490 almost 2 years ago
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Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd.
Submitted by queenosheba almost 2 years ago
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Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.
Submitted by bariau about 2 years ago
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Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have is this. When I have a subject in mind. I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. My mind becomes pervaded with it ... the effort which I have made is what people are pleased to call the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of labor and thought.
Submitted by jimmydaniels about 2 years ago
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Great ideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Submitted by Cellardoor over 2 years ago
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Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognises genius.
Submitted by laura over 2 years ago
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Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.
Submitted by kathiravaneee over 2 years ago
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Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.
Submitted by kathiravaneee over 2 years ago
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Talent hits a target no one else can hit, while genius hits a target that no one else can see.
Submitted by Constihill over 2 years ago
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My handwriting was the despair of my teachers. But my classmates gave me the nickname Einstein.
Submitted by amaguire over 2 years ago
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There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
Submitted by mathemagician over 2 years ago
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