Talent And Genius Quotes

• 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

  16 Copy quote

• 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

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Inspirational, Education, Intelligence

  "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations". Book by John Bartlett, 10th edition, 1919.

  17 Copy quote

  Show source

• The world is full of educated derelicts.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Perseverance, Determination, Persistence

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

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  88 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• God gives talent. Work transforms talent into genius.

  Anna Pavlova

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  152 Copy quote
• 

  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)

  94 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  155 Copy quote

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

  Thomas Huxley

  Life, Success, Children

  43 Copy quote

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

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Harper's Monthly Magazine, September 1932.

  68 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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.

  27 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Writing, Hands, Genius

  7 Copy quote
• 

  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

  242 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Genius, Talent, Mark

  6 Copy quote

• 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

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Genius, Impossible, Talent

  6 Copy quote

• 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).

  52 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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'

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Calvin Coolidge

  Motivational, Wisdom, Perseverance

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

  64 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Joe Strummer

  Perseverance, Determination, Persistence

  43 Copy quote

• 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)

  80 Copy quote

  Show source

• Nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Perseverance, Determination, Procrastination

  74 Copy quote

• 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).

  170 Copy quote

  Show source