Talent And Genius Quotes - Page 2

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

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2009). “The Crack-Up”, p.123, New Directions Publishing

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

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Genius, Mediocrity, World

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• No one respects a talent that is concealed.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Inspirational, Genius, Talent

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• In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Work, India, Genius

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.725, Library of Alexandria

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• Use those talents you have. You will make it. You will give joy to the world. Take this tip from nature: The woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except those who sang best.

  Bernard Meltzer

  Using Your Talents, Giving, Bird

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• Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.

  T. S. Eliot

  Art, Writing, Reading Poetry

  The Sacred Wood "Philip Massinger" (1920)

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• 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.

  Carl Jung

  Sad, Discrepancies Between, Quality

  Carl Gustav Jung (1953). “Collected Works of C.G. Jung: The development of personality”

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• God gives talent. Work transforms talent into genius.

  Anna Pavlova

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.

  Aldous Huxley

  Birthday, Children, Mean

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• The world is full of educated derelicts.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Perseverance, Determination, Persistence

  Quoted in Quotable Calvin Coolidge, ed. Peter Hannaford (2001).

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• Talent jogs to conclusions to which Genius takes giant leaps.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Giants, Genius, Talent

  Edwin Percy Whipple (1859). “Lectures on Subjects Connected with Literature and Life”, p.162

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

  Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

  Gold, Gifts And Talents, Genius

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• It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.19, St. Martin's Press

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

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.2, Publishdrive

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• The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of childhood into maturity.

  Thomas Huxley

  Life, Success, Children

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

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Writing, Hands, Genius

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• Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Vice President Mike Pence's Speech at Grove City College, time.com. May 20, 2017.

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• Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Harper's Monthly Magazine, September 1932.

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

  Erica Jong

  Inspirational, Life, Success

  "The Artist as Housewife" (1972)

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• 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

  Love, Wise, Believe

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Jean Ferguson Carr (1987). “The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.14, Harvard University Press

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

  Ezra Pound

  Men, Ordinary, Genius

  Jefferson and/or Mussolini ch. 23 (1935)

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• Nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Perseverance, Determination, Procrastination

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• There is nothing more common than unsuccessful men with talent.

  Joe Strummer

  Perseverance, Determination, Persistence

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

  Samuel Johnson

  Determination, Luck, Mind

  'The Lives of the English Poets' (1779-81) 'Cowley'

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

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Genius, Talent, Mark

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