A Quote by Helene Hanff
Talent is the infinite capacity for taking pains. Genius is the infinite capacity for achievement without taking any pains at all.
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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.
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.
An actor is a man with an infinite capacity for taking praise.
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.
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.
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.
Genius is the art of taking pains
Genius is an infinite capacity for pain.
Genius is play, and man's capacity for achieving genius is infinite, and many may achieve genius only through play.
The East German manages to combine a Teutonic capacity for bureauracy with a Russian capacity for infinite delay
The infinity of All ever bringing forth anew, and even as infinite space is around us, so is infinite potentiality, capacity, reception, malleability, matter.
Genius is a capacity for taking trouble.
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