A Quote by Robert Schumann

Talent works, genius creates.

Robert Schumann

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Robert Schumann
German - Composer
June 8, 1810 - July 29, 1856

the distinction between talent and genius is definite. Talent combines and uses; genius combines and creates.

Anna Brownell Jameson

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.

Soren Kierkegaard

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.

W. Somerset Maugham

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.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Genius is the gold in the mine, talent is the miner who works and brings it out.

Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

Talent is full of thoughts, Genius is thought. Talent is a cistern, Genius a fountain.

Edwin Percy Whipple

We are told that talent creates opportunity, yet it is desire that creates talent.

Bruce Lee

God has placed the genius of women in their hearts, because the works of this genius are always works of love.

Alphonse de Lamartine

Talent wears well, genius wears itself out; talent drives a snug brougham in fact; genius, a sun-chariot in fancy.

Ouida

A man of talent will strive for money and reputation; but the spring that moves genius to the production of its works is not as easy to name

Arthur Schopenhauer

Talent works for money and fame; the motive which moves genius to productivity is, on the other hand, less easy to determine.

Arthur Schopenhauer

I think all writers have a bit of genius in them, and a bit of talent. Genius retreats but talent improves.

Martin Amis

According to this law [the law of Dharma], you have a unique talent and a unique way of expressing it. There is something that you can do better than anyone else in the whole world--and for every unique talent and unique expression of that talent, there are also unique needs. When these needs are matched with the creative expression of your talent, that is the spark that creates affluence. Expressing your talents to fulfill needs creates unlimited wealth and abundance.

Deepak Chopra

I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.

Oscar Wilde

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.