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“A man who is morally clean, other things being equal, has in every instance, greater agility, greater capacity, and greater endurance by far than the man who is not. While the latter is wasting his creative energies in useless pleasures, as well as in disease producing habits, the former is turning all of his creative energy into ability and genius, and the result is evident.”

“Genius is by definition a style of consciousness characterized by the ability to access high energy attractor patterns. It is not a personality characteristic. It is not something that a person has, nor even something that someone is. Those in whom we recognize genius commonly disclaim it. A universal characteristic of genius is humility. The genius has always attributed his insights to some higher influence.”

Persons Energy Ability Consciousness Influence Style Humility Personality Genius Higher Universal Patterns Definitions Insight Access Characteristics High Energy

Author:David R. Hawkins

“We have too long treated the natural world as an adversary rather than as a life-sustaining gift from the Almighty. If man has the genius to build, which he has, he must also have the ability and the responsibility to preserve.”

Ifs Men World Long Natural Ability Responsibility Genius Conservative Treated Preserves Almighty Natural World Adversaries Sustaining

Author:Gerald R. Ford

“Part of America's genius has always been its ability to absorb newcomers, to forge a national identity out of the disparate lot that arrived on our shores.”

America Ability Identity Genius Shore Newcomers National Identity

Book:The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream

Source: The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream

“A writer arrived at the monastery to write a book about the Master. "People say you are a genius . Are you?" he asked. "You might say so." said the Master, none too modestly. "And what makes one a genius?" "The ability to recognize." "Recognize what?" "The butterfly in a caterpillar: the eagle in an egg; the saint in a selfish human being.”

People Writing Humans Said Book Might Human Beings Ability Masters Genius Saint Selfish Eggs Butterfly Eagles Caterpillars Monasteries

Book:One Minute Wisdom

Source: One Minute Wisdom

“Michael Joseph Jackson's genius was the ability to be the raw article himself - the real article himself. He is part of the African American people who were marginalized.”

People Real Ability Genius African American Articles Marginalized

Author:Michael Eric Dyson

“Genius is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one, and the man of talent sees two or three, plus the ability to register that multiple perception in the material of his art.”

Men Art Two Three Ability Talent He Man Materials Genius Ten Perception Ordinary Capacity Plus Multiple Register Ordinary Man

Author:Ezra Pound

“Indeed the worthy housewife was of such a capricious nature, that she not only attained a higher pitch of genius than Macbeth, in respect of her ability to be wise, amazed, temperate and furious, loyal and neutral in an instant, but would sometimes ring the changes backwards and forwards on all possible moods and flights in one short quarter of an hour; performing, as it were, a kind of triple bob major on the peal of instruments in the female belfry, with a skilfulness and rapidity of execution that astonished all who heard her.”

“Genius and great abilities are often wanting; sometimes, only opportunities. Some deserve praise for what they have done; others for what they would have done.”

Sometimes Done Opportunity Ability Genius Deserve Praise

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“The genius of capitalism lies in its ability to make self-interest serve the wider interest. The potential of a big financial return for innovation unleashes a broad set of talented people in pursuit of many different discoveries. This system, driven by self-interest, is responsible for the incredible innovations that have improved so many lives.”

People Different Self Bigs Lying Interest Ability Business Return Genius Discovery Capitalism Innovation Responsible Incredibles Financial Driven Pursuit Broads Self Interest

Author:Bill Gates

“Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.”

Reason Found Understanding Imagination Ability Genius Philosophical Aptitude Vivid Imagination

Author:Marcus Aurelius

“Many studies of research scientists have shown that achievement (at least below the genius level of an Einstein, Bohr, or a Planck) depends less on ability in doing research than on the courage to go after opportunity.”

Opportunity Ability Levels Study Depends Genius Achievement Research Scientist

Author:Peter Drucker

“The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category.”

Ifs Different Ability Leader Military Genius Opponents Categories Dictator Mein Kampf

Book:Mein Kampf: My Struggle: (Vol. I & Vol. II) - (Complete & Illustrated Edition)

Source: Mein Kampf: My Struggle: (Vol. I & Vol. II) - (Complete & Illustrated Edition)

“Talent is the ability to say things well, but genius is the ability to, well, say things.”

Wells Ability Talent Genius

Author:Steve Martin

“As Baudelaire said it so beautifully, Emma Bovary is an androgynous character. She cannot be reduced to a gender or a sociological type. She represents something bigger than herself. That was the genius of Flaubert: the ability to combine the general and the particular.”

Said Character Ability Particular Type Genius Bigger Gender Emma Sociological Baudelaire Androgynous

Author:Sophie Barthes