Intellect...Creativity...GENIUS
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0701 C
“Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.” — Thomas Alva Edison
GENIUS, Perseverance, Motivation
0702 A
“Genius unexerted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks.” — Henry Ward Beecher
GENIUS, Potential, Motivation
0703 HA
“Sometimes men come by the name of genius in the same way that certain insects come by the
name of centipede - not because they have a hundred feet but because most people can’t count above fourteen.”
— Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
GENIUS, Ignorance
0704 P
“Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.” — Quintus Horatius Flaccus Horace
GENIUS, Adversity, Wealth
0705 P
“Genius is initiative on fire.” — Holbrook Jackson
GENIUS, Motivation
0706
“Genius is independent of situation.” — Charles Churchill
GENIUS, Effectiveness
0707
“Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.” — Anne Louise Germaine de Stael
GENIUS, Originality, Excellence
0708 H
“Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.” — Elbert Hubbard
GENIUS, Ignorance
0709
“A genius is a man who has two great ideas.” — Jacob Bronowski
GENIUS, Originality
0710
“Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius.”
— Isaac D’Israeli
GENIUS, Wealth
0711
“Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.” — W(ystan) H(ugh) Auden
GENIUS, Happiness
0712
“Genius does what it must, talent does what it can.” — Edward George Earle Bulwer-Lytton
GENIUS, Motivation
0713
“Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.” — Henri Frederic Amiel
GENIUS, Perseverance
0714 A
“Talent repeats, genius creates. Talent is a cistern, genius a fountain.” — Edwin Percy Whipple
GENIUS, Originality, Innovation
0715
“Those who have not distinguished themselves at school need not on that account be discouraged. The greatest minds do not necessarily ripen the quickest.” — Sir John Lubbock
GENIUS, Knowledge, Ignorance
GENIUS Cross-References
Excellence—71 • Optimism—122 •
Procrastination—261 • Potential—485 • Thought—635 •
Originality—730, 732 • Leadership—1144
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