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I remember seeing her in "Beautiful Girls" and "The Professional" and being like, This girl is genius! This girl is ahead of her time. This girl is a prodigy. (Quote by - Zach Braff)

Genius is not a possession of the limited few, but exists in some degree in everyone. Where there is natural growth, a full and free play of faculties, genius will manifest itself. (Quote by - Robert Henri)

The charm, one might say the genius, of memory is that it is choosy, chancy and temperamental; it rejects the edifying cathedral and indelibly photographs the small boy outside, chewing a hunk of melon in the dust. (Quote by - Elizabeth Barrett Browning)

Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it. (Quote by - Madame de Stael)

Genius without education is like silver in the mine. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)

What the world needs is more geniuses with humility, there are so few of us left (Quote by - Oscar Levant)

The word genius was whispered into my ear, the first thing I ever heard, while I was still mewling in my crib. So it never occurred to me that I wasn't until middle age. (Quote by - Orson Welles)

Art is a jealous mistress, and, if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture, or philosophy, he makes a bad husband, and an ill provider, and should be wise in season, and not fetter himself with duties which will embitter his day (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Genius does what it must, and talent does what it can. (Quote by - Edward G. Bulwer-lytton)

Talent does what it can, and genius does what it must. (Quote by - Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)

We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later. (Quote by - Louis Aragon)

The only difference between a genius and one of common capacity is that the former anticipates and explores what the latter accidentally hits upon; but even the man of genius himself more frequently employs the advantages that chance presents to him; (Quote by - Guillaume Thomas Raynal)

The genius of any slave system is found in the dynamics which isolate slaves from each other, obscure the reality of a common condition, and make united rebellion against the oppressor inconceivable. (Quote by - Andrea Dworkin)

Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores. (Quote by - F. Scott Fitzgerald)

Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration! (Quote by - Thomas Alva Edison)

The word-coining genius, as if thought plunged into a sea of words and came up dripping. (Quote by - Virginia Woolf)

Who shall say I am not the happy genius of my household? (Quote by - William Carlos Williams)

Each species is a masterpiece, a creation assembled with extreme care and genius. (Quote by - Edward O. Wilson)

Beauty is a form of genius - is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)

Put your talent into your work, but your genius into your life (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)

Genius is nothing but continued attention. (Quote by - Claude Adrien Helvetius)

Nobody in the game of football should be called a genius. A genius is somebody like Norman Einstein. (Quote by - Joe Theisman)

Everybody denies I am a genius - but nobody ever called me one! (Quote by - Orson Welles)

The genius of the American system is that through freedom we have created extraordinary results from plain old ordinary people (Quote by - Phil Gramm)

Men of genius sometimes accomplish most when they work the least, for they are thinking out inventions and forming in their minds the perfect idea that they subsequently express with their hands. (Quote by - Giorgio Vasari)

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