Quotes About Genius And Hard Work

#1. The grim reality is that most start-ups fail. Most new products are not successful. Yet the story of perseverance, creative genius, and hard work persists.

Eric Ries

#2. Genius is the capacity of avoiding hard work.

Elbert Hubbard

#3. Genius is seldom recognized for what it is: a great capacity for hard work.

Henry Ford

#4. The fact that people didn't know I was British did work for quite a while.

Claire Forlani

#5. Remember that all the others are more afraid than you

Isabel Allende

#6. The real food is not being advertised

Michael Pollan

#7. Useful knowledge, practical kindness, and beneficent laws
these are not the Gospel; but, like philosophy, they are, or may be, its handmaids. They may make its task smooth and grateful; they may associate themselves with its victories, or they may prepare its way.

Henry Parry Liddon

#8. I wish I'd played my whole career in flag football.

Archie Manning

#9. People like me and Ozu get films made by hard work, but Shimizu is a genius ...

Kenji Mizoguchi

#10. Two per cent. is genius, and ninety-eight per cent. is hard work.

Thomas A. Edison

#11. Lincoln
they used to talk about him almost as bad as they talk about me. So democracy has never been for the faint of heart.

Barack Obama

#12. Art is seldom the result of true genius; rather, it is the product of hard work and skills learned and tenaciously practiced by regular people.

Sally Mann

#13. It has been said that Ernest Hemingway would rewrite scenes
until they pleased him, often thirty or forty times. Hemingway,
critics claimed, was a genius. Was it his genius that drove
him to work hard, or was it hard work that resulted in works
of genius?

James N. Frey

#14. Faith is not contrary to reason.

Sherwood Eddy

#15. The reason we need words to define our hearts is that our hearts are lonely, vulnerable, bare and beating things, and sometimes, they do not always know truth unless they hear it.

Amy Lane

#16. People who observe no limits in attempting to get work done aren't nearly as smart as they think. Hard work can be done by any fool. But to be highly productive, and still have plenty of time to rest and play, this is where true genius resides.

Ernie J Zelinski

#17. People sometimes attribute my success to my genius; all the genius I know anything about is hard work.

Alexander Hamilton

#18. Eakins rejected gentlemen athletics as his theme. Instead, he took a subject that had been the stuff of illustrated weeklies and the penny press and turned it into fine art. Eakins celebrates not fire from heaven but honest sweat, not genius but hard work.

Barry S. Strauss

#19. In forty hours I shall be in battle, with little information, and on the spur of the moment will have to make the most momentous decisions. But I believe that one's spirit enlarges with responsibility and that, with God's help, I shall make them, and make them right.

George S. Patton

#20. The snake jabbed its tail at a little sign next to the glass. Harry peered at it. Boa Constrictor, Brazil.

J.K. Rowling

#21. What the great mentor is always looking for is a person who is willing to tap his genius, to put it through the refiner's fire, to do the hard work to develop it. Indeed, mentoring is the medieval art of alchemy-turning plain old human steel into hearts and minds of gold.

Oliver DeMille

#22. Criticism is often not a science; it is a craft, requiring more good health than wit, more hard work than talent, more habit than native genius. In the hands of a man who has read widely but lacks judgment, applied to certain subjects it can corrupt both its readers and the writer himself.

Jean De La Bruyere

#23. The only genius that's worth anything is the genius for hard work.

Kathleen Winsor

#24. Genius is not inspired. Inspiration is perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

#25. was in the Gray family forever, way back to the early

John Grisham

#26. This reasoning is based on the wishful thinking that genius can only be earned through education and hard work. It denies the time-proven truth that genius can strike like a random bolt of lightning, at any time in any place, even in a humble glover's home in a small town in Elizabethan England.

Andrea Mays

#27. I know of no genius but the genius of hard work.

J. M. W. Turner

#28. Arts and sciences in one and the same century have arrived at great perfection; and no wonder, since every age has a kind of universal genius, which inclines those that live in it to some particular studies; the work then, being pushed on by many hands, must go forward.

John Dryden

#29. It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work.

Virginia Woolf

#30. Genius is 1% talent and 99% percent hard work...

Albert Einstein

#31. Genius consists of equal parts of natural aptitude and hard work.

Andre Maurois

#32. Melodrama is one of the most stunning art forms. These are stories where the emotions are big, and the situations are big, and the artists believe in the situation dramatically. There's no irony or distance.

James Gray