A Quote by Hugh Leonard
The problem with Ireland is that it's a country full of genius, but with absolutely no talent.
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It is often said that in Ireland there is an excess of genius unsustained by talent; but there is talent in the tongues.
Talent is full of thoughts, Genius is thought. Talent is a cistern, Genius a fountain.
Talent warms-up the given (as they say in cookery) and makes it apparent; genius brings something new. But our time lets talent pass for genius. They want to abolish the genius, deify the genius, and let talent forge ahead.
Genius is talent provided with ideals. Genius starves while talent wears purple and fine linen. The man of genius of today will infifty years' time be in most cases no more than a man of talent.
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.
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.
The purpose of America is to unleash the full talent and genius of every individual.
Talent wears well, genius wears itself out; talent drives a snug brougham in fact; genius, a sun-chariot in fancy.
How full of the creative genius is the air in which these [snowflakes] are generated! I should hardly admire them more if real stars fell and lodged on my coat. Nature is full of genius. Full of the divinity. So that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.
There's a mental health problem in the sense that people are so afraid of the stigma that they don't get help. But there's absolutely a gun control problem in the country.
I think all writers have a bit of genius in them, and a bit of talent. Genius retreats but talent improves.
the distinction between talent and genius is definite. Talent combines and uses; genius combines and creates.
It is not because the touch of genius has roused genius to production, but because the admiration of genius has made talent ambitious, that the harvest is still so abundant.
I'm just drawn to the odd guy, the man who is full of it, the guy who has limited talent but is pretending he's a genius.
Towns are full of people, houses full of tenants, hotels full of guests, trains full of travelers, cafés full of customers, parks full of promenaders, consulting-rooms of famous doctors full of patients, theatres full of spectators, and beaches full of bathers. What previously was, in general, no problem, now begins to be an everyday one, namely, to find room.
Talent without genius isn't much, but genius without talent is nothing whatsoever.
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