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Genius is a nuisance, and it is the duty of schools and colleges to abate it by setting genius-traps in its way.
View quotes by Samuel Butler
I can always tell when the mother in law's coming to stay; the mice throw themselves on the traps.
View quotes by Les Dawson
Of all the traps and pitfalls in life, self-disesteem is the deadliest, and the hardest to overcome, for it is a pit designed and dug by our own hands, summed up in the phrase, 'It's no use-I can't do it.'
View quotes by Maxwell Maltz
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.
View quotes by Walter Lippmann
The word 'genius' isn't applicable in football. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.
View quotes by Jon Theisman
Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together
View quotes by Georg Lichtenberg
Genius can probably run on ahead and seek out new ways. But the good artists who follow after genius - and I count myself among these - have to restore the lost connection once more.
View quotes by Kathe Kollwitz
I'm all in favour of the democratic principle that one idiot is as good as one genius, but I draw the line when someone takes the next step and concludes that two idiots are better than one genius.
View quotes by Leo Szilard
Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.
View quotes by Joe Theismann
The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.
View quotes by Albert Einstein
Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but, less by assimilation than by fiction.
View quotes by Heinrich Heine
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
View quotes by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Many men of genius must arise before a particular man of genius can appear.
View quotes by Isaac Disraeli
One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius.
View quotes by Simone De Beauvoir
Diego Maradona - a flawed genius who has now become a genius who is flawed.
View quotes by Bob Wilson
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common then unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan ' press on ' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
View quotes by Calvin Coolidge
I have nothing to declare but my genius.
View quotes by Oscar Wilde
Genius is sorrow's child.
View quotes by John Adams
Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
View quotes by E B White
To see things in the seed, that is genius.
View quotes by Lao Tzu
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