Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.
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.
Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.
The world is full of educated derelicts.
Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.
Everyone is a genius at least once a year.
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.
Talent is that which is in a man's power; genius is that in whose power a man is.
There is nothing more common than unsuccessful men with talent.
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
God gives talent. Work transforms talent into genius.
Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.
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.
Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.
The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
Nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent.
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