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Genius is an overused word. The world has known only about a half dozen geniuses. I got only fairly near.
by Fritz Kreisler (Composer, Austrian , born in 1875) keywords: dozen, fairly, genius, geniuses, got, half, known, near, only, overused, word , world Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.
by Georg C. Lichtenberg (Physicist , born in 1970) topics: Intelligence keywords: bright, closer, everyone, genius, geniuses, ideas, least, once, real, simply, their, together , year Unfortunately, goodness and honor are rather the exception than the rule among exceptional men, not to speak of geniuses.
by Cesare Lombroso (Psychologist, Italian , born in 1835) keywords: among, exception, exceptional, geniuses, goodness, honor, men, rather, rule, speak, than , unfortunately It's not that complicated. If you hear something and it makes you want to hear it again, that's the ticket. You have to be lucky enough to find geniuses, welcome them and get out of their way.
by Jerry Moss (Businessman, American , born in 1935) keywords: again, complicated, enough, find, geniuses, get, hear, lucky, makes, out, something, their, them, ticket, want, way , welcome A particularly fine head on a man usually means that he is stupid; particularly deep philosophers are usually shallow thinkers; in literature, talents not much above the average are usually regarded by their contemporaries as geniuses.
by Robert Musil (Writer, Austrian , born in 1880) keywords: above, average, contemporaries, deep, fine, geniuses, head, literature, man, means, much, particularly, philosophers, regarded, shallow, stupid, talents, their, thinkers , usually I think one of the geniuses of Bound and The Matrix and Memento is the complete collaboration of the effort. There were no rotten apples.
by Joe Pantoliano (Actor, American , born in 1951) keywords: apples, bound, collaboration, complete, effort, geniuses, matrix, memento, rotten, think , were Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
by Alan Perlis (Scientist, American , born in 1922) keywords: avoid, complexity, fools, geniuses, ignore, pragmatists, remove, some , suffer We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in colour and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types.
by J. B. Priestley (Writer, British , born in 1894) keywords: able, administrative, colour, course, fire, fit, geniuses, into, orders, our, ourselves, pattern, reveal, should, society, some, sound, take, towering, types, us , would We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in color and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types.
by Joseph Priestley (Scientist, English , born in 1733) keywords: able, administrative, color, course, fire, fit, geniuses, into, orders, our, ourselves, pattern, reveal, should, society, some, sound, take, towering, types, us , would The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages over the latter, even where geniuses are equal.
by Samuel Richardson (Novelist, English , born in 1689) keywords: advantages, difference, education, equal, even, former, geniuses, give, great, latter, men, must, over, where , women But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
by Carl Sagan (Scientist, American , born in 1934) keywords: also, brothers, clown, columbus, does, fact, geniuses, imply, laughed, some, were , wright The art music of the West has developed through out its history by means of individual geniuses, and out of the soil supporting them; non-Western musicians were born, and grew like the grasses of the field.
by Toru Takemitsu (Composer, Japanese , born in 1930) keywords: art, born, developed, field, geniuses, grasses, grew, history, individual, means, music, musicians, out, soil, supporting, them, through, were , west
