We can all be geniuses because one definition of genius is the infinite capacity for taking pains.
quote by Knute Rockne
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Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.
Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.
quote by Thomas Carlyle
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Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
quote by Aldous Huxley
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Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
Aldous Huxley in Themes and Variations, 1950
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Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
quote by R. Buckminster Fuller
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Genius is an overused word. The world has known only about a half dozen geniuses. I got only fairly near.
quote by Fritz Kreisler
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Our dreams are firsthand creations, rather than residues of waking life. We have the capacity for infinite creativity; at least while dreaming, we partake of the power of the Spirit, the infinite Godhead that creates the cosmos.
quote by Jackie Gleason
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The only difference between a genius and one of common capacity is that the former anticipates and explores what the latter accidentally hits upon; but even the man of genius himself more frequently employs the advantages that chance presents him; it is the lapidary who gives value to the diamond which the peasant has dug up without knowing its value.
quote by Abbe Guillaume Raynal
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Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.
quote by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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Theses, faeces, syntheses
O the language of the thesis!
O the octopus of Academe!
‘As I argued in my previous book,
‘Some definitions of ‘definition’ in contemporary philosophy’ –
an argument which I hope to pursue
in a following volume, (and I quote) :
‘to define what we mean by ‘definition’
we must first consider
the nature of definition:
can it be itself defined? Is
its definition itself a retreat
from what definition defines? …’
and the wood of academic chairs
creaking as a lecture ends,
from which once the young sap rose
like the hope of definition
dries, decays and dessicates.
poem by Michael Shepherd
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My definition of cool is finding your own definition of cool and not necessarily taking your lead from what other people tell you or from what you might read from magazines or see on TV.
quote by Wentworth Miller
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A great Friend
The definition of a great
friend is.....
Sticking by you no matter what.
The definition of a great
friend is...
To dry away wet tears when you are you are down
The definition of a great
friend is....
To unstick you, when your struck
The definition of a great
friend is....
To help you through the hard times
The definition of a great
friend is....
To tell you when are wrong, to teach you to do riight.
The Definition of a great
friend is.....
to pray with you through hard times, to give a hand when your in need and hug you and let you see.
The definition of a
great friend is true, The definition of a great friend is you! ! ! ! ! ! !
poem by Dallas Turner
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I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done.
quote by Henry Ford
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The definition of genius, really, should be that that person can do what the rest of us have to learn how to do.
quote by James Lipton
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Crazy people who are productive are geniuses. Crazy people who are rich are eccentric. Crazy people who are neither productive nor rich are just plain crazy. Geniuses and crazy people are both out in the middle of a deep ocean geniuses swim, crazy people drown. Most of us are sitting safely on the shore. Take a chance and get your feet wet.
quote by Michael J. Gelb
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Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
quote by Ezra Pound
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Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one's training.
quote by Bernard Berenson
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Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.
quote by George Eliot
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Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.
quote by Alvin Toffler
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Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds.
quote by Samuel Butler
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