Top 1200 Talent And Genius Quotes & Sayings

Genius is the talent of a person who is dead.

To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent. To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius.

I intend to work for this dance of the future. I do not know whether I have the necessary qualities; I may have neither genius nor talent nor temperament. But I know that I have a Will; and will and energy sometimes prove greater than either genius or talent or temperament.

Genius is power, talent is applicability.

I truly believe we all have a sleeping giant within us. Each of us has a talent, a gift, our own bit of genius just waiting to be tapped. It might be a talent for art or music... a special way of relating to the ones you love. It might be a genius for selling or innovating.... I choose to believe that our Creator doesn't play favorites, that we've all been created unique, but with equal opportunities for experiencing life to the fullest.

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.

Genius is talent exercised with courage.

Genius discovers a system; average talent stereotypes it till it is shattered by fresh genius.

Talent is a tenant in the house owned by genius.

To do what others cannot do is talent. To do what talent cannot do is genius.

My only genius talent is inquisitiveness.

Talk not of genius baffled. Genius is master of man. Genius does what it must, and Talent does what it can.

Longevity is the revenge of talent upon genius.

Isco is a genius. He is a natural and a huge talent.

Genius is immediate, but talent takes time.

It is the curse of talent that, although it labors with greater steadiness and perseverance than genius, it does not reach its goal, while genius already on the summit of the ideal, gazes laughingly about.

Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.

Genius is talent provided with ideals.

Talent may be in time forgiven, but genius never

God gives talent. Work transforms talent into genius.

Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.

Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer.

Talent without genius isn't much, but genius without talent is nothing whatsoever.

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

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.

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.

You can do something with talent, but nothing with genius.

It is only occasional that talent becomes genius - radiating sparks, brilliance, energy, and charismatic magnetism... such a talent was Janis Joplin.

...That genius is a rare exception (:) It's not true. Talent and genius have been wasted on enormous scale throughout our history; this is all I know for sure.

I have put my talent into writing, my genius I have saved for living.

The difference between Talent and Genius is that Talent says things which he has never heard but once, and Genius things which he has never heard.

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.

To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius.

I probably have genius. But no talent.

Genius differs from talent not by the amount of original thoughts, but by making the latter fertile and by positioning them properly, in other words, by integrating everything into a whole, whereas talent produces only fragments, no matter how beautiful.

Genius is its own reward; for the best that one is, one must necessarily be for oneself. . . . Further, genius consists in the working of the free intellect., and as a consequence the productions of genius serve no useful purpose. The work of genius may be music, philosophy, painting, or poetry; it is nothing for use or profit. To be useless and unprofitable is one of the characteristics of genius; it is their patent of nobility.

Talent is what you possess; genius is what possesses you.

Talent imitates, genius steals.

I gave my genius to my life, but my talent to my art.

Talent imitates, but genius steals.

Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.

I put my talent in my work, I save my Genius for my life.

Talent has the four seasons: spring, that is to say, the sowing of the seeds; summer, growth; autumn, the harvest; winter, intellectual death. But there is now and then a genius who has no winter, and, no matter how many years he may live, on the blossom of his thought no snow falls. Genius has the climate of perpetual growth.

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

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

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

There's some advice for the next generation. If there's a dream in your heart, never let anyone tell you you've got no talent. Get out there, embarrass yourself, and prove to the world you've got no talent. And then give up. 'Cause not everyone can be a genius like me.

Talent borrows, genius steals!

Genius is talent set on fire by courage.

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

Genius points the way, talent takes it.

Talent works, genius creates.

Talent should minister to genius.

The peril of every fine faculty is the delight of playing with it for pride. Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character, and the greater it grows, the more is the mischief. Talent is mistaken for genius, a dogma or system for truth, ambition for greatness, ingenuity for poetry, sensuality for art.

Genius gives birth, talent delivers.

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.

It is often said that in Ireland there is an excess of genius unsustained by talent; but there is talent in the tongues.

Genius is the talent for seeing things straight.

Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.

Discretion is deadly to genius; ruinous to talent.