#genius

A man possesses talent; genius possesses the man. ↗

— Isaac Stern

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Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine. ↗

— Edmund Wilson

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If a professional musician in a symphony orchestra is playing Beethoven. But this particular orchestra have played this particular chestnut so many times, they can play it in their sleep. Does the genius remain present in the music or not? ↗

— Robert Fripp

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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it. ↗

— Horace

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Genius is rarely able to give any account of its own processes. ↗

— George Henry Lewes

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People hate me because I am a multifaceted, talented, wealthy, internationally famous genius. ↗

— Jerry Lewis

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The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

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Olivier was another case of a genius, who couldn't understand why anybody would have any trouble doing this, because for him it came so easily. ↗

— James Lipton

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The definition of genius, really, should be that that person can do what the rest of us have to learn how to do. ↗

— James Lipton

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Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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