A Quote by Thomas Carlyle
Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.
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Talent is the infinite capacity for taking pains. Genius is the infinite capacity for achievement without taking any pains at all.
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.
Thoroughness characterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains. All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinite painstaking, even to the minutest detail.
Genius is play, and man's capacity for achieving genius is infinite, and many may achieve genius only through play.
Genius is the art of taking pains
Genius is an infinite capacity for pain.
Genius is a capacity for taking trouble.
An actor is a man with an infinite capacity for taking praise.
The best minds come from the most unexpected faces and places. There is no image for intelligence or genius. Genius is something that cannot be seen. It cannot be produced or manufactured. It is something that even the true genius thinks is unattainable. The genius recognizes he’s just a small pea in a sea of infinite atoms. Knowledge is as infinite as the universe. The man who claims to know all, only reveals to all that he really knows nothing.
Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
Man (and woman) has an infinite capacity for self-development. Equally, he has an infinite capacity for self-destruction. A human being may be clinically alive and yet, despite all appearances, spiritually dead.
'Genius' which means transcendent capacity of taking trouble, first of all.
The Creator, in taking infinite pains to shroud with mystery His presence in every atom of creation, could have had but one motive - a sensitive desire that men seek Him only through free will.
The confirmations of the Spirit are all those powers and gifts which some are born with (and which men sometimes call genius), but for which others have to strive with infinite pains. They come to that man or woman who accepts his life with radiant acquiescence.
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