A Quote by Leslie Stephen
Genius is a capacity for taking trouble.
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'Genius' which means transcendent capacity of taking trouble, first of all.
Talent is the infinite capacity for taking pains. Genius is the infinite capacity for achievement without taking any pains at all.
Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds
Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.
Genius is merely the capacity for taking infinite pains.
We can all be geniuses because one definition of genius is the infinite capacity for taking pains.
They say that genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains," he remarked with a smile. "It's a very bad definition, but it does apply to detective work.
Genius is play, and man's capacity for achieving genius is infinite, and many may achieve genius only through play.
If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I would not pass it around. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it.
Talent is able to achieve what is beyond other people's capacity to achieve, yet not what is beyond their capacity of apprehension; therefore it at once finds its appreciators. The achievement of genius, on the other hand, transcends not only others' capacity of achievement, but also their capacity of apprehension; therefore they do not become immediately aware of it. Talent is like the marksman who hits a target which others cannot reach; genius is like the marksman who hits a target, as far as which others cannot even see.
One saves oneself much pain, by taking pains; much trouble, by taking trouble.
If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I wouldn't pass it around. Wouldn't be doing anybody a favor. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don't say embrace trouble. That's as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say, meet it as a friend, for you'll see a lot of it and had better be on speaking terms with it.
The only difference between a genius and one of common capacity is that the former anticipates and explores what the latter accidentally hits upon; but even the man of genius himself more frequently employs the advantages that chance presents to him.
Eventually, meditation will make our mind calm, clear, and as concentrated as a laser which we can focus at will. This capacity of one-pointed attention is the essence of genius. When we have this mastery over attention in everything we do, we have a genius for life.
Universality is the distinguishing mark of genius. There is no such thing as a special genius, a genius for mathematics, or for music, or even for chess, but only a universal genius. The genius is a man who knows everything without having learned it.
In science the successors stand upon the shoulders of their predecessors; where one man of supreme genius has invented a method, a thousand lesser men can apply it. ... In art nothing worth doing can be done without genius; in science even a very moderate capacity can contribute to a supreme achievement.
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