Quotes
Quotes to inspire and reflect
It is better to be making the news than taking it; to be an actor rather than a critic.
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The better the actor the more stupid he is.
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All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players.
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Show me a great actor and I'll show you a lousy husband. Show me a great actress, and you've seen the devil.
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We're actors — we're the opposite of people!
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When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, 'It's in the script.' If he says, 'But what's my motivation’? I say, 'Your salary’.
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It is in the ability to deceive oneself that the greatest talent is shown.
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If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own.
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Ability is nothing without opportunity.
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Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.
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To know how to hide one's ability is great skill.
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Men often become what they believe themselves to be. If I believe I cannot do something, it makes me incapable of doing it. But when I believe I can, then I acquire the ability to do it even if I didn't have it in the beginning.
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Genius is 1% inspiration, and 99% perspiration.
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Almost everyone is born a genius and buried an idiot.
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We mustn't forget how quickly the visions of genius become the canned goods of intellectuals.
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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
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Talent does what it can, and genius does what it must.
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Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.
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Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
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Genius is talent set on fire by courage.
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Genius - To know without having learned; to draw just conclusions from unknown premises; to discern the soul of things.
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Skill is fine, and genius is splendid, but the right contacts are more valuable than either.
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The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor.
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The essence of genius is to know what to overlook.
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True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
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Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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Talent may be in time forgiven, but genius never.
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Men of genius are meteors intended to burn to light their century.
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People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
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Common sense is as rare as genius, - is the basis of genius.
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There is a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
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Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius.
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Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.
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There's a Genius in all of us.
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Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and myself founded empires; but what foundation did we rest the creations of our genius? Upon force. Jesus Christ founded an empire upon love; and at this hour millions of men would die for Him.
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Genius has limitations; stupidity is boundless.
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The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
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The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.
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The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.
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When Nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
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Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.
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Any 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.
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Some would be sages if they did not believe they were so already.
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Where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise.
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What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?
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Wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good.
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Wisdom is not communicable. The wisdom which a wise man tries to communicate always sounds foolish... Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.
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Never, no, never did Nature say one thing and Wisdom say another.
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