A Quote by Thomas Carlyle

'Genius' which means transcendent capacity of taking trouble, first of all.

Thomas Carlyle

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Thomas Carlyle
Scottish - Philosopher
December 4, 1795 - February 5, 1881

Genius is a capacity for taking trouble.

Leslie Stephen

Talent is the infinite capacity for taking pains. Genius is the infinite capacity for achievement without taking any pains at all.

Helene Hanff

Whether it’s a symphony or a coal mine, all work is an act of creating and comes from the same source: from an inviolate capacity to see through one’s own eyes-which means: the capacity to perform a rational identification- which means: the capacity to see, to connect and to make what had not been seen, connected and made before.

Ayn Rand

Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds

Samuel Butler

Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.

Thomas Carlyle

Genius is merely the capacity for taking infinite pains.

Napoleon Hill

We can all be geniuses because one definition of genius is the infinite capacity for taking pains.

Knute Rockne

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.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Consider children as a beat. Clearly not an institution of power, children don't vote and they don't pass taxes. They have no money, and they don't buy newspapers or watch the news on television. Consequently, children are one of the most neglected segments of society in the news, except as a subtopic of other power beats such as education, family, and crime. Children are in serious trouble in this society, which means the foundation of our society is in trouble, which means the future is in trouble, and that is news.

Joan Konner

A woman means by Unselfishness chiefly taking trouble for others; a man means not giving trouble to others...thus, while the woman thinks of doing good offices and the man of respecting other people's rights, each sex, without any obvious unreason, can and does regard the other as radically selfish.

C. S. Lewis

Genius is play, and man's capacity for achieving genius is infinite, and many may achieve genius only through play.

William Saroyan

In the Old Testament, the God of the Prophets never was completely on Israel's side. There was a primitive national religion, but it was always a transcendent God who had judgment first in the House of God. This is the true religion. It has a sense of a transcendent majesty and a transcendent meaning so that that puts myself and the foe under the same judgment.

Reinhold Niebuhr

Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.

George Eliot

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.

Eknath Easwaran

Art doesn't have the stench of a community program. It's transcendent. It is transcendent of morality and transcendent of political position. It is absolutely free. It is the community center.

Kirsha Kaechele

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