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Talent And Genius Quotes

Andre Breton quote: "Dali is like a man who hesitates between talent and genius,..."
Dali is like a man who hesitates between talent and genius, or, as one might once have said, between vice and virtue. Andre Breton
Louisa May Alcott quote: "It takes people a long time to learn the difference between..."
It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women. Louisa May Alcott
probably the greatest concentration of talent and genius in this house except for perhaps those times when Thomas Jefferson ate alone. John F. Kennedy
Albert Einstein quote: "Genius is 1% talent and 99% percent hard work..."
Genius is 1% talent and 99% percent hard work... Albert Einstein
In uncertainty I am certain that underneath their topmost layers of frailty men want to be good and want to be loved. Indeed, most of their vices are attempted short cuts to love. When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influence and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and his dying a cold horror. It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try to live so that our death brings... John Steinbeck
When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influence and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and his dying a cold horror John Steinbeck
The failure of women to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block the way of all women of talent and ambition for intellectual achievement. Anna Garlin Spencer
Genius is a word that is very loosely used nowadays. It is ascribed to persons to whom a more sober judgement would be satisfied to allow talent. Genius and talent are very different things. Many people have talent; it is not rare: genius is. Talent is adroit and dexterous; it can be cultivated; genius is innate, and too often strangely allied to grave defects. But what is genius? W. Somerset Maugham
Louisa May Alcott quote: "Talent isn't genius, and no amount of energy can make it so. I..."
Talent isn't genius, and no amount of energy can make it so. I want to be great, or nothing. Louisa May Alcott
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton quote: "Genius does what it must, and talent does what it can."
Genius does what it must, and talent does what it can. Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
This man has talent, that man genius. And here's the strange and cruel difference: Talent gives pence and his reward is gold, Genius gives gold and gets no more than pence. W. H. Davies
Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistance. Talent will not. There is nothing more common then unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not. Unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not. The world if full of educated derelicts. Persistence and Determination alone are Omnipotent. Joe Strummer
Nothing in the 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 alone will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. Calvin Coolidge
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. Ralph Waldo Emerson
The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as "Soho" poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of a genius and no talent. Quentin Crisp

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