Best Talent And Genius Quotes

Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.

The best revenge is the massive success.

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.

Genius is talent set on fire by courage.

The slogan ‘press on’ has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.

Modest expression is a beautiful setting to the diamond of talent and genius.

Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

Genius is another word for magic, and the whole point of magic is that it is inexplicable.

Genius is the gold in the mine, talent is the miner who works and brings it out.

Genius is another word for magic.

The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction.

The difference between talent and genius is in the direction of the current: in genius, it is from within outward; in talent from without inward.

There is the same difference between talent and genius that there is between a stone mason and a sculptor

probably the greatest concentration of talent and genius in this house except for perhaps those times when Thomas Jefferson ate alone.

Talent is that which is in a man’s power; genius is that in whose power a man is.

Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature.

Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.

…That genius is a rare exception (:) It’s not true. Talent and genius have been wasted on enormous scale throughout our history; this is all I know for sure.

Upper berth, lower berth, that’s the difference between talent and genius.

To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent.

Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.

Genius… is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.

Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.

Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Everyone is a genius at least once a year.

Talent jogs to conclusions to which Genius takes giant leaps.

To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius.

The true genius shudders at incompleteness.

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.

Nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent.

No one respects a talent that is concealed.

Talent and genius operate outside the rules, and theory conflicts with practice.

A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius.

Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.