A Quote by Benjamin Disraeli

Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.

Benjamin Disraeli

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Benjamin Disraeli
British - Celebrity
December 21, 1804 - April 19, 1881

A willingness to practice patience. Patience in communication is that certain ingredient of conduct we hope others will exhibit toward us when we fail to measure up. Our own patience is developed when we are patient with others.

Marvin J. Ashton

"Genius is just enduring patience," said Buffon. This is far from complete. Genius is impatience in ideas and patience with the facts: a lively imagination and a calm judgment, rather like a liquid boiling in a cup that remains cold.

Leo Errera

Patience is the capacity to endure all that is necessary in attaining a desired end. ... Patience never forsakes the ultimate goal because the road is hard. There can be no patience without an object.

Margaret Kennedy

Nothing is so much coveted by a young man as the reputation of being a genius; and many seem to feel that the want of patience for laborious application and deep research is such a mark of genius as cannot be mistaken: while a real genius, like Sir Isaac Newton, with great modesty says, that the great and only difference between his mind and the minds of others consisted solely in his having more patience.

John Todd

Buffett’s genius was largely a genius of character—of patience, discipline, and rationality.

Roger Lowenstein

Patience is the healthiest ingredient of our life.

Umar

"Le génie n'est qu'une longue patience", a dit Buffon. Cela est bien incomplet. Le génie, c'est l'impatience dans les idées et la patience dans les faits : une imagination vive et un jugement calme; quelque chose comme un liquide en ébullition dans un vase qui reste toujours froid. "Genius is just enduring patience," said Buffon. This is far from complete. Genius is impatience in ideas and patience with the facts: a lively imagination and a calm judgment, rather like a liquid boiling in a cup that remains cold.

Leo Errera

Failure is a necessary ingredient for success.

Bran Ferren

Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.

Charles Baudelaire

Strangeness is an ingredient necessary in beauty.

Charles Baudelaire

Analyzing what you haven't got as well as what you have is a necessary ingredient of a career.

Orison Swett Marden

Possessing a healthy imagination is a necessary ingredient for creativity.

Steve Vai

Compassion is the most necessary ingredient in all relationships. Everything depends on it.

Jane Stanton Hitchcock

Some very dull and sad people have genius though the world may not count it as such; a genius for love, or for patience, or for prayer, maybe. We know the divine spark is here and there in the world: who shall say under what manifestations, or humble disguise!

Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchie

Even if we accept, as the basic tenet of true democracy, that one moron is equal to one genius, is it necessary to go a further step and hold that two morons are better than one genius?