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"Genius is one percent inspiration and ninty-nine percent perspiration."	Thomas Alva Edison
"Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration."	Thomas Alva Edison
"Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration."	Thomas Alva Edison
"Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them."	Albert Einstein
"The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits."	Albert Einstein
"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction."	Albert Einstein
"Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy."	Henry Havelock Ellis
"A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam that flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his own thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a sort of alienated majesty."	Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Universities are of course hostile to geniuses, which, seeing and using ways of their own, discredit the routine: as churches and monasteries persecute youthful saints."	Ralph Waldo Emerson
"So much of our time is preparation, so much is routine, and so much retrospect, that the path of each man's genius contracts itself to a very few hours."	Ralph Waldo Emerson
"To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men-that is genius."	Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind."	F(rancis) Scott
"Genius without education is like silver in the mine."	Benjamin Franklin
"It is not because the touch of genius has roused genius to production, but because the admiration of genius has made talent ambitious, that the harvest is still so abundant."	(Sarah) Margaret Fuller
"Genius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering pot and the pruning knife."	(Sarah) Margaret Fuller
"The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency."	(Sarah) Margaret Fuller
"Brain researchers estimate that your unconscious database outweighs the conscious on an order exceeding ten million to one. This database is the source of your hidden, natural genius. In other words, a part of you is much smarter than you are. The wise people regularly consult that smarter part."	Michael J. Gelb
"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."	Michael J. Gelb
"A science is any discipline in which the fool of this generation can go beyond the point reached by the genius of the last generation."	Max Gluckman
"Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it."	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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