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Talent is that which is in a man's power; genius is that in whose power a man is.
Good sense is at the bottom of everything: virtue, genius, wit, talent and taste.
If beauty isn't genius it usually signals at least a high level of animal cunning.
Talent without genius isn't much, but genius without talent is nothing whatsoever.
For what we are about to see next, we must enter quietly into the realm of genius!
I've always said that the word 'genius,' especially in Hollywood, is way overused.
Talent is some one faculty unusually developed; genius commands all the faculties.
A guy calls me a genius, and I'm going to renounce? I'm not going to renounce him.
Staff has a genius for sitting on its brains and coming up with perfect hindsight.
Anybody who can do anything in Leicester but make a jumper has got to be a genius.
There is no such thing as genius, some children are just less damaged than others.
Could we teach taste or genius by rules, they would be no longer taste and genius.
Genius, by its very intensity, decrees a special path of fire for its vivid power.
The gifts of genius are far greater than the givers themselves venture to suppose.
A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.
Genius is a good deal like the sea ... Nothing can restrain its tide or quicken it.
Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.
Every genius thinks INWARDLY toward his Mind instead of outwardly toward his senses
Genius, the Pythian of the beautiful, leaves its large truths a riddle to the dull.
Vance has a genius in evoking the beauty of strangeness, the strangeness of beauty.
It is impossible for a dove to catch a swallow, for a clever man to catch a genius.
If people are saying you’re wrong that’s probably a good sign that you’re a genius.
excessive fear and self-doubt that were the greatest detractors of personal genius.
Literature is an investment of genius which pays dividends to all subsequent times.
Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - either by themselves or by others.
Genius is a talent only for living, those who possess it have little gift for dying.
There is no greater consolation for mediocrity than that the genius is not immortal.
Will and energy sometimes prove greater than either genius or talent or temperament.
It appears to me that strong sense and acute sensibility together constitute genius.
A genius knows how to make himself easily understood without being obvious about it.
That adage about genius being 5 percent inspiration and 95 perspiration - it's true.
To understand Mozart's contradictory qualities would indeed be to understand genius.
The world is so average, it doesn't take much to be a genius, just do a little extra
The continuous capacity of genius to surpass understanding remains a human constant.
Talent is a faculty that is highly developed, but genius commands all the faculties.
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
The purpose of America is to unleash the full talent and genius of every individual.
It's easier to sell junk when you're known than works of genius when you're unknown.
Skrillex. The man is a genius and paved a new way for music and it's very inspiring.
Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright.
Genius always looks forward, and not only sees what is, but what necessarily will be.
I have no talent for making new friends, but oh such genius for fidelity to old ones.
I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child.
To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart
Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.
That genius is feeble which cannot hold its own before the masterpieces of the world.
We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later.
Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it.
Your insecurity and neediness is what makes you a big neurotic ball of comedy genius.
Genius is not so much a light as it is a constant awareness of the surrounding gloom.