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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.”

“As a rule, I think they are quite impossible. Geniuses talk so much, don't they? Such a bad habit! And they are always thinking about themselves, when I want them to be thinking about me.”

Thinking Want Impossible Genius Habit Bad Habits Always Thinking

Book:The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde

Source: The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde

“The very greatest genius, after all, is not the greatest thing in the world, any more than the greatest city in the world is the country or the sky. It is the concentration of some of its greatest powers, but it is not the greatest diffusion of its might. It is not the habit of its success, the stability of its sereneness.”

World Country Might Cities Sky Genius Habit Concentration Stability Cities In The World Diffusion

Book:Leigh Hunt's Works

Source: Leigh Hunt's Works

“people are capable of profound metamorphosis, though unfortunately they rarely avail themselves of this genius, force of habit being an even greater enemy of change than cowardice.”

People Force Change Enemy Greater Genius Habit Capable Profound Cowardice Metamorphosis

Book:Saturday's Child: A Memoir

Source: Saturday's Child: A Memoir

“Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.”

Source: Psychology: The Briefer Course

“Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old - old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.”

Knows Want Ideas Sometimes Action Belief Cases Position Genius Habit Letting Go Stuck Contact Something New Want Something Old Ideas

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“These are the times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed. The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues. When a mind is raised, and animated by scenes that engage the heart, then those qualities which would otherwise lay dormant, wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.”