"You can do something with talent, but nothing with genius...."

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Source : Margot Asquith (1933). “More Memories”

#Genius Quotes #Talent Quotes

“People made suggestions, but, hell, I don't actually listen to anybody, I just go my own way.”
“In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fix'd: 't is fix'd as in a frost; contracted all, retiring to the breast; but strength of mind is exercise, not rest.”
“I am sure my music has a taste of codfish in it.”
“What would it be like to live in a library of melted books. With sentences streaming over the floor and all the punctuation settled to the bottom as a residue. It would be confusing. Unforgivable. A great adventure.”
“You see I'm against hunting, in fact I'm a hunt saboteur. I go out the night before and shoot the fox.”
“We are so convinced of the goodness of ourselves, and the goodness of our love, we cannot bear to believe that there might be something more worthy of love than us, more worthy of worship. Greeting cards routinely tell us everybody deserves love. No. Everybody deserves clean water. Not everybody deserves love all the time.”
“If a warrior lacked wisdom, courage alone would not keep him alive for long.”
“At the end of the day you bet on people, not on strategies.”

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