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Category: Talent and Genius

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1. "Genius is the ability to look at things simply."

E. Lee Spence

2. "Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow that talent to dark place where it leads."

Erica Jong

3. "We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents."

Eric Hoffer

Quotations about: Dreams and Desires

4. "It is a very rare thing for a man of talent to succeed by his talent."

Joseph Roux, "Meditations of a Parish Priest"

Quotations about: Success and Fame

5. "In Mozart and Salieri we see the contrast between the genius which does what it must and the talent which does what it can."

Maurice Baring

Quotations about: Art and Culture

6. "The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on."

Walter Lippmann

Quotations about: Authority, Government

7. "Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it."

Louis Leo Holtz

Quotations about: Work and Laziness

8. "Common sense is genius dressed up in work clothes."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Quotations about: Intellect, Judgement

9. "Don't tell a man how to do a thing. Tell him what you want done, and he'll surprise you with his ingenuity."

George S. Patton

10. "Genius [...] has been defined as a supreme capacity for taking trouble. [...] It might be more fitly described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds and keeping them therein so long as the genius remains."

Samuel Butler, "Notebooks"

11. "There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all the virtues are of no avail."

Aldous Huxley

12. "Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is always Judas who writes his biography."

Oscar Wilde

Quotations about: Loyalty and Betrayal

13. "Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off."

Carl Gustav Jung

Quotations about: Human

14. "No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history."

William Hazlitt

Quotations about: History and Nations

15. "All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy."

Carl Gustav Jung

Quotations about: Reality and Imagination

16. "Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."

Mark Twain

Quotations about: Success and Fame

17. "Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age."

Jonathan Swift

Quotations about: Youth and Age

18. "Genius lasts longer than beauty."

Oscar Wilde

Quotations about: Beauty and Ugliness

19. "It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test."

Elbert Green Hubbard

20. "The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources."

Albert Einstein

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21. "Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped."

Elbert Green Hubbard

Quotations about: Wisdom and Stupidity

22. "Only great men have great faults."

François de La Rochefoucauld

Quotations about: Defeates and Mistakes

23. "Genius is the ability to see things invisible, to manipulate things intangible, to paint things that have no features."

Joseph Joubert

24. "The price of greatness is responsibility."

Winston Churchill

Quotations about: Success and Fame

25. "Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them."

Joseph Joubert

Quotations about: Work and Laziness

26. "Genius without education is like silver in the mine."

Benjamin Franklin

Quotations about: Education

27. "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits."

Albert Einstein

Quotations about: Wisdom and Stupidity

28. "Talent hits a target no-one else can hit; genius hits targets no-one else can see."

Arthur Schopenhauer

29. "A retentative memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness."

Elbert Green Hubbard

Quotations about: Memory

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