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The purpose of America is to unleash the full talent and genius of every individual.
Sep 10, 2025
There is the same difference between talent and genius that there is between a stone mason and a sculptor
Genius is another word for magic.
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.
Upper berth, lower berth, that's the difference between talent and genius.
A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius.
Genius is the gold in the mine, talent is the miner who works and brings it out.
Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
…because talent isn't genius, and no amount of energy can make it so. I want to be great, or nothing.
To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius.
Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature.
Talent is that which is in a man's power; genius is that in whose power a man is.
The true genius shudders at incompleteness.
Modest expression is a beautiful setting to the diamond of talent and genius.
The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction.
A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.
...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.
Genius is another word for magic, and the whole point of magic is that it is inexplicable.
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.
Talent, and genius as well, is like a grain of pearl sand shifting about in the creative mind. A valued tormentor.
Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different.
Talent and genius operate outside the rules, and theory conflicts with practice.
probably the greatest concentration of talent and genius in this house except for perhaps those times when Thomas Jefferson ate alone.
No one respects a talent that is concealed.
I want to be great, or nothing. I won't be a commonplace dauber, so I don't intend to try any more.
Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.
Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.
Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.
God gives talent. Work transforms talent into genius.
Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?
To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men that is genius.
Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.
Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
The inquiry in England is not whether a man has talents and genius, but whether he is passive and polite and a virtuous ass and obedient to noblemen's opinions in art and science. If he is, he is a good man. If not, he must be starved.
Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.
In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous.
Nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent.
The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
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.
There is nothing more common than unsuccessful men with talent.
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.
Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
The world is full of educated derelicts.
Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.
Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.