#genius

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I knew it was coming. I knew they didn't have the nerve. Three days in and they've got faces like vexed tomatoes, their skins flaking sci-fi style: burnt to fuck. They were an embarrassment; not only to me and the wife and The Fall fans but to their own generation.


Mark E. Smith


#genius #music #paranoid #ranting #the-fall

Almost all genius up to now was one-sided—the result of a sickly constitution. One type had too much sense of the external, the other too much inner sense. Seldom could nature achieve a balance between the two—a complete constitution of genius. Often a perfect proportion arose by chance, but this could never endure because it was not comprehended and fixed by the spirit—they remained fortunate moments. The first genius that penetrated itself found here the exemplary germ of an immeasurable world. It made a discovery which must have been the most remarkable in the history of the world—for with it there begins a whole new epoch for humanity—and true history of all kinds becomes possible for the first time at this stage—for the way that had been traversed hitherto now makes up a proper whole that can be entirely elucidated. That point outside the world is given, and now Archimedes can fulfill his promise.


Novalis


#nature

Any darn fool can make something complex; it takes a genius to make something simple.


Pete Seeger


#fool #genius #simplicity #simplicity

…because talent isn't genius, and no amount of energy can make it so. I want to be great, or nothing.


Louisa May Alcott


#little-women #louisa-may-alcott #talent #louisa-may-alcott

Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.


Joseph Addison


#delivered #down #generation #genius #great

My ultimate is Peter Sellers - his ability to go broad and somehow humanize that and be hilarious at the same time. He was just relatable, real at the same time as insane. I find Ricky Gervais absolutely hilarious. Steve Martin is another hero of mine - he's a genius.


Hank Azaria


#absolutely #another #broad #find #genius

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


#conceit #consciousness #danger #even #finest

It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.


Louisa May Alcott


#between #difference #especially #genius #learn

There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.


Aristotle


#great #great genius #madness #mixture #without

Well, you cannot think of cinema now, and you cannot think of cinema in the UK and not place Chaplin in the most extraordinary elevated context, if there can be such a thing, in that he was a genius, he was unique.


Richard Attenborough


#chaplin #cinema #context #elevated #extraordinary