“Better is possible. It does not take genius. It takes diligence. It takes moral clarity. It takes ingenuity. And above all, it takes a willingness to try.”
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“It takes a genius to whine appealingly.”
Letter to Maxwell Perkins, Villa Marie à Valescure, Saint-Raphaël, France, c. 10 October 1924, as quoted in A Life in Letters https://books.google.com/books?id=3DGy0rdeLrsC&pg=PA82&dq=%22It+takes+a+genius+to+whine+appealingly.%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiC3b6sqp3TAhUm0oMKHXUBAXUQ6AEIRDAG#v=onepage&q=%22It%20takes%20a%20genius%20to%20whine%20appealingly.%22&f=false (1963), edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli and Judith S. Baughman
Quoted, Letters
“We take, and must continue to take, morally hazardous actions to preserve our civilization.”
The Irony of American History (1952)
Context: We take, and must continue to take, morally hazardous actions to preserve our civilization. We must exercise our power. But we ought neither to believe that a nation is capable of perfect disinterestedness in its exercise, nor become complacent about a particular degree of interest and passion which corrupt the justice by which the exercise of power is legitimatized.
“"Genius" (which means transcendent capacity of taking trouble, first of all).”
Life of Fredrick the Great http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~spok/metabook/fgreat.html, Bk. IV, ch. 3 (1858–1865). Sometimes misreported as "Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains"; see Paul F. Boller, Jr., and John George, They Never Said It: A Book of Fake Quotes, Misquotes, & Misleading Attributions (1989), p. 12.
1860s
“The definition of genius is taking the complex and making it simple.”
“In a really great way, you simultaneously try to take up as little and as much space as possible.”
On working in the ensemble group The Polyphonic Spree.
QRO Magazine interview (2007)