G Quotes
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“Genius, when employed in works whose tendency it is to demoralize and to degrade us, should be contemplated with abhorrence rather than with admiration; such a monument of its power, may indeed be stamped with immortality, but like the Coliseum at Rome, we deplore its magnificence because we detest the purposes for which it was designed.”
Source: Lacon: or, Many things in few words
“Genius, when young, is divine.”
Source: Coningsby: Or, The New Generation
“Genius, whether locked up in a cell or roaming at large, is always solitary.”
“Genius, with all its pride in its own strength, is but a dependent quality, and cannot put forth its whole powers nor claim all its honors without an amount of aid from the talents and labors of others which it is difficult to calculate.”
“Genius, without work, is certainly a dumb oracle, and it is unquestionably true that the men of the highest genius have invariably been found to be amongst the most plodding, hard-working, and intent men -- their chief characteristic apparently consisting simply in their power of laboring more intensely and effectively than others.”
Source: Self-help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct
“Genius--the free and harmonious play of all the faculties of a human being.”
Source: Conversations with Children on the Gospels
“Genius. It is just attention to something specific. That's all it is. Law of Attraction makes it happen, and so anyone who gives attention to any subject for a period of time will evolve in the direction of that understanding.”
“Genius. It's a word. What does it really mean? If I win I'm a genius. If I don't, I'm not.”
“Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.”
“Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.”
Source: Psychology: The Briefer Course
“Genius: the ability to prolong one's childhood.”
“Genius: The capacity to see and to express what is simple, simply!”
Source: Bruce Lee Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way
“Genius: the superhuman in man.”
“Genius? Nothing! Sticking to it is the genius! ...
I've failed my way to success.”
“Genius? Nothing! Sticking to it is the genius! Any other bright-minded fellow can accomplish just as much if he will stick like hell and remember nothing that's any good works by itself. You've got to make the damn thing work!...I failed my way to success.”
“Geniuses always think it's easier than we make it out to be.”
“Geniuses and prophets do not usually excel in professional learning, and their originality, if any, is often due precisely to the fact that they do not.”
Source: Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy
“Geniuses and supergeniuses always make their own rules about sex as on everything else; they do not accept the monkey customs of their lessers.”
Source: Friday
“Geniuses are at work in the rock music field, and great popularity is no proof you aren't good.”
“Geniuses are commonly believed to excel other men in their power of sustained attention . . . But it is their genius making them attentive, not their attention making geniuses of them.”
Source: The Principles of Psychology
“Geniuses are horrid, intolerant, easily offended, sleeplessly self-conscious men, who expect their wives to be angels with no further business in life than to pet and worship their husbands. Even at the best they are not comfortable men to live with; and a perfect husband is one who is perfectly comfortable to live with.”
“Geniuses are just people who had good mothers.”
“Geniuses are justifiably contemptuous of the opinions of their inferiors.”
“Geniuses are like ocean liners: they should never meet.”
“Geniuses are like thunderstorms: they go against the wind, terrify people, clear the air.”
“Geniuses are not always pleasant people.”
“Geniuses are not born, they are made”
Source: No One Is Better Than You
“Geniuses are people who dash off weird, wild, incomprehensible poems with astonishing facility, & then go & get booming drunk & sleep in the gutter. Genius elevates a man to ineffable speres [sic] far above the vulgar world, & fills his soul with a regal contempt for the gross & sordid things of earth. It is probably on account of this that people who have genius do not pay their board, as a general thing.”
“Geniuses are people who notice things and connections between things which others haven't noticed. Genius must be a surprise.”
“Geniuses are products of time conversion”
Source: No One Is Better Than You
“Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.”
“Geniuses are those who have the intelligence, enthusiasm, and endurance to acquire the needed expertise in a broadly valued domain of achievement and who then make contributions to that field that are considered by peers to be both original and highly exemplary.”
“Geniuses build worlds too vast for crowds.”
Source: The Final Sequel: The Architect’s Web
“Geniuses can be scintillating and geniuses can be somber, but it's that inescapable sorrowful depth that shines through-originality.”
Source: The Portable Jack Kerouac
“Geniuses come in many shapes and colors, and they often run in packs. If you can find one, it may lead you to others. Collaborate with geniuses. Send them your spells. Look carefully at theirs. What could you do together? Combination is creation.”
“Geniuses have the shortest biographies.”
Source: The Emperor's Children: Picador Classic
“Geniuses must never die, the progress of mankind depends on us”
“Geniuses never pay attention.”
Source: Michael Crichton's Jurassic World
“Geniuses of certain kinds - mathematicians, chess players, computer programmers - seem, if not mad, at least lacking in the social skills most easily identified with sanity.”
Source: Genius: the life and science of Richard Feynman
“Geniuses were like storms or cyclones, pulling everything into their path, sticks and stones and dust.”
“Genler içinde bulundukları çevrelere programlanmış tepkiler gösterirler - yoksa korunan bir biçim olmazdı. Fakat aynı zamanda şansın kendine özgü kaprislerinin yapışması için de pay bırakırlar. Bu etkileşime ''yazgı'' diyoruz; kendimizin buna verdiği tepkimelere de ''seçim''. Konuşma yetisine sahip iki ayaklı ve dik yürüyen bir organizma, işte bu şekilde bir plan dahilinde, ama aynı zamanda planın dışına çıkmak üzere inşa edilir. Böyle bir organizmanın tek bir eşsiz varyantına ''birey'' deriz.”
Source: The Gene: An Intimate History
“GENNA LYNNA---so Tender, so meek, and so kind; but when the CALL goes forth---and the CAUSE IS GREAT-------SHE rises to her feet---with the wind in her face and her hair.........and SHE EXPOUNDS THE WISDOM OF THE ANCIENTS.”
“Genndy [Tartakovsky] is so good at directing and so wonderful with animation.”
“Geno shrugged. Cash recognized the shrug. She herself brushed off things that were important to her. Too many dreams had been dashed. Too many hopes lost. If you didn't want something too much, it didn't hurt that much if you didn't get it.”
Source: Sinister Graves
“Geno told them why I was there, and they all came down off the truck and looked me over — I guess just to make sure that they didn’t have any prior problems with me.
Geno was standing on my right side. He said to me, “Now I’m going to start it.” He took two steps out in front of me, spun around quickly, and delivered a punch to my left jaw. My head jerked back from his blow. I remember thinking to myself, at least that wasn’t bad. However, before I could register another thought, the five Truck Boys were on me like white on rice. They threw blows and slaps on me. For the next minute or so, I stood there and took it all in like a good soldier.
This was the price I was more than willing to pay to become a member of the Rebellions. After it was all over, they welcome me in with handshakes. Then they started asking me where I lived, and what school I had attended. Just like that I was now in the gang, these were my new best friends, individuals whom I would go all out for, and who would do the same for me.”
Source: The Fight of My Life is Wrapped Up in My Father
“Genocide, after all, is an exercise in community building. A vigorous totalitarian order requires that the people be invested in the leader's scheme, and while genocide may be the most perverse and ambitious means to this end, it is also the most comprehensive. In 1994, Rwanda was regarded in much of the rest of the world as the exemplary instance of chaos and anarchy associated with collapsed states. In fact, the genocide was the product of order, authoritarianism, decades of modern political theorizing and indoctrination, and one of the most meticulously administered states in history. And strange as it may sound, the ideology–or what Rwandans call "the logic"–of genocide was promoted as a way not to create suffering but alleviate it. The specter of an absolute menace that requires absolute eradication binds leader and people in a hermetic utopian embrace, and the individual–always an annoyance to totality–ceases to exist.”
Source: We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families
“Genocide and Gummy Bears have a tale to Tell
They are both Armies, each under a different Spell
One professes Love, the other Evil
Gummy kindness will outsmart the Devil”
Source: A Candid Aim
“Genocide begins, however improbably, in the conviction that classes of biological distinction indisputably sanction social and political discrimination.”
“Genocide has two phases: one, destruction of the national pattern of the oppressed group; the other, the imposition of the national pattern of the oppressor. This imposition, in turn, may be made upon the oppressed population which is allowed to remain or upon the territory alone, after removal of the population and the colonization by the oppressor's own nationals.”
Source: Axis Rule in Occupied Europe
“Genocide involves the attempt to achieve the disappearance of a group by whatever means. It does not have to be violent, it could be a combination of policies that would lead to a certain group dying out.”