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“Those same forces that drive a genius to create the things or ideas that entertain or enlighten us often gobble so much of his personality that he has none left for the social graces.”

Ideas Left Force Social Grace Personality Genius Enlightening Social Graces

Book:Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

Source: Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

“There exists no more repulsive and desolate creature in the world than the man who has evaded his genius and who now looks furtively to left and right, behind him and all about him. ... He is wholly exterior, without kernel, a tattered, painted bag of clothes.”

Men World Looks Left Behinds He Man Genius Creatures Clothes Bags Exterior Desolate Kernel Left And Right

Book:Nietzsche: Untimely Meditations

Source: Nietzsche: Untimely Meditations

“When a man has displayed talent in some particular path, and left all competitors behind him in it, the world are too apt to give him credit for universality of genius, and to anticipate for him success in all that he undertakes.”

Men World Giving Left Behinds Path Talent Particular Genius Credit Competitors Anticipate Universality

Book:Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

“Theories of genius are the peculiar constructions of our own philosophical times; ages of genius had passed away, and they left no other record than their works; no preconcerted theory described the workings of the imagination to be without imagination, nor did they venture to teach how to invent invention.”

Age Left Imagination Teach Records Theory Genius Philosophical Invention Peculiar Construction Venture Passed Away

Author:Isaac D'Israeli

“You can eat beef on a weekly basis and become a genius intuitive if your energy is in present time.You can consume only organic food while running thirty-five miles a day and "om-ing" until dawn, but if your spirit is raging about your history and is saturated in regrets and unfinished business, you won't be able to intuit your left hand from your right.”

Ifs Hands Running Able Spirit Energy Left Five Regret Genius Bases Rage Miles Dawn Thirty Intuitive Beef Unfinished Present Time Left Hand Saturated Organic Food Unfinished Business

Author:Caroline Myss

“I mean, you're gonna be left behind if you don't appreciate the genius that is Meredith Vieira.”

Ifs Mean Left Behinds Genius Appreciate Left Behind

Author:Mo Rocca

“The family story tells, and it was told true, of my great-grandfather who begat eight genius children and bought twelve almost new grand pianos. He left a considerable estate when he died.”

Children Stories Left Genius Died Eight Piano Twelve Grandfather Estates Great Grandfather

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“As a writer, politician, scientist, and businessman, [Ben] Franklin had few equals among the educated of his day-though he left school at ten. (...)Boys like Andrew Carnegie who begged his mother not to send him to school and was well on his way to immortality and fortune at the age of thirteen, would be referred today for psychological counseling; Thomas Edison would find himself in Special Ed until his peculiar genius had been sufficiently tamed.”

“I do not believe, as do so many musicians, that genius should be left to fight its way to the light. Genius is too rare, too precious, to be permitted to waste the best years of life--the years of youth and lofty dreams--in a heart-breaking struggle for bread. To starve the soul with the body is to do worse than murder. Think, too, of what the public loses!”

Thinking Way Should Years Believe Heart Soul Dream Body Light Fighting Left Loses Struggle Youth Genius Waste Musician Murder Bread Lofty Best Year Heart Breaking Years Of Life

Author:Ignacy Jan Paderewski