Talent And Genius Quotes - Page 3

• Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Motivational, Wisdom, Perseverance

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

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• Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Perseverance, Determination, Persistence

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

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

  James Russell Lowell

  Power, Men, Genius

  James Russell Lowell (1870). “Among my Books, etc”, p.356

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

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Genius, Impossible, Talent

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• Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

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

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

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Practice, Genius, Talent

  Carl von Clausewitz, Michael Howard, Peter Paret (1989). “On War”, p.140, Princeton University Press

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

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Beautiful, Expression, Genius

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• The difference between talent and genius is this: while the former usually develops some special branch of our faculties, the latter commands them all. When the former is combined with tact, it is often more than a match for the latter.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Differences, Special, Genius

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• the distinction between talent and genius is definite. Talent combines and uses; genius combines and creates.

  Anna Brownell Jameson

  Genius, Use, Talent

  Anna Brownell Jameson (1877). “A commonplace book of thoughts, memories and fancies, original and selected”, p.73

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• 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.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Differences, Inward, Genius

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1969). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VII: 1838-1842”, p.442, Harvard University Press

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

  George Gershwin

  Differences, Genius, Talent

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• Talent, and genius as well, is like a grain of pearl sand shifting about in the creative mind. A valued tormentor.

  Truman Capote

  Writing, Creative, Mind

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• The difference between Talent and Genius is that Talent says things which he has never heard but once, and Genius things which he has never heard.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Differences, Genius, Talent

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.4039, Delphi Classics

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• ...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.

  Eric Hoffer

  Dark, Age, Genius

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• The purpose of America is to unleash the full talent and genius of every individual.

  Ronald Reagan

  America, Purpose, Genius

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

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Differences, Genius, Stones

  Robert Green Ingersoll (2013). “Shakespeare: A Lecture”, p.31, Library of Alexandria

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

  John F. Kennedy

  House, Genius, Talent

  New York Times 30 Apr. 1962, p. 1

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• The inquiry in England is not whether a man has talents and genius, but whether he is passive and polite and a virtuous ass and obedient to noblemen's opinions in art and science. If he is, he is a good man. If not, he must be starved.

  William Blake

  Respect, Art, Men

  William Blake (1988). “William Blake”, Oxford University Press, USA

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