"A genius is one who can do anything except make a living."

Adams, Joey Lauren · Genius · 2 fans >>
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"Genius is sorrow's child."

Adams, John · Genius · 3 fans >>
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"It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women."

Alcott, Louisa May · Genius · 2 fans >>
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"Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius."

Amiel, Henri Frederic · Genius · 0 fans >>
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"To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent. To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius."

Amiel, Henri Frederic · Genius · 4 fans >>
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"We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later."

Aragon, Louis · Genius · 3 fans >>
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"There is no great genius without a mixture of madness."

Aristotle · Genius · 6 fans >>
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"There are big men, men of intellect, intellectual men, men of talent and men of action; but the great man is difficult to find, and it needs --apart from discernment --a certain greatness to find him."

Asquith, Margot · Genius · 0 fans >>
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"Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do."

Auden, W. H. · Genius · 2 fans >>
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"Genius is no more than childhood recaptured at will, childhood equipped now with man's physical means to express itself, and with the analytical mind that enables it to bring order into the sum of experience, involuntarily amassed."

Baudelaire, Charles · Genius · 3 fans >>
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