Top 100 Quotes About Genius Talent
#1. It's a good thing I'm a professional and could see the pure genius talent behind the raw sexual beauty.
Zach Braff
#2. I've met some real talents that were ... real talents and I've met some real talents that were incredible people.People like Al Williamson, Gray Morrow, to a certain extent Jim Steranko, who is an institution all to himself. What a talent. What a genius talent.
Mike Royer
#5. Marriage requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy requires genius.
Warren Beatty
#7. Talent, and genius as well, is like a grain of pearl sand shifting about in the creative mind. A valued tormentor.
Truman Capote
#8. The moment of recognizing your own lack of talent is a flash of genius.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
#9. There is a genius of a nation, which is not to be found in the numerical citizens, but which characterizes the society.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#10. There's a perceived inverse relation between looks and talent. Look at Charlize Theron - she made herself ugly for 'Monster' and suddenly everyone said 'she's a genius.' It shouldn't be like that.
Lena Headey
#12. Modest expression is a beautiful setting to the diamond of talent and genius.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
#13. It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.
Louisa May Alcott
#14. When I had to fill in my immigration papers, I gave my age as 19, and my profession as genius; I added that I had nothing to declare except my talent.
Oscar Wilde
#15. We're all geniuses. Life is merely overpopulated with singers who play drums, and, drummers who sing, to pay rent.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#16. A very fine artist can take something quite ordinary and, through sheer artistry and willpower, turn it into a work of art.
Truman Capote
#18. If genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration, then as a culture we tend to lionize the one percent.
Susan Cain
#19. I have put my talent into writing, my genius I have saved for living.
Oscar Wilde
#20. Talent is the ability to say things well, but genius is the ability to, well, say things.
Steve Martin
#21. Bow to genius, but to the authority of that genius - not the display of talent ...
John Geddes
#22. An average person with average talent, ambition and education can outstrip the most brilliant genius in our society, if that person has clear, focused goals.
Brian Tracy
#23. Realism to be effective must be a matter of selection.genius chooses its materials with a view to their beauty and effectiveness; mere talent copies what it thinks is nature, only to find it has been deceived by the external grossness of things.
Julia Marlowe
#24. Pseudo-artists think that being an artist means opposing whatever seems to be an establishment. That is not creative at all. True creativity is the ability to gain perspective wherever you may have missed it before.
Criss Jami
#25. Genius discovers a system; average talent stereotypes it till it is shattered by fresh genius.
Sri Aurobindo
#26. The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
#28. The night before, I'd gone overboard with my Lila poems, and maybe it's true that I was hoping that in them he'd see the genius of me, the beauty of my words in his hands.
Beth Kephart
#29. 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.
Eric Hoffer
#30. Genius still means to me, in my Russian fastidiousness and pride of phrase, a unique dazzling gift. The gift of James Joyce, and not the talent of Henry James.
Vladimir Nabokov
#34. But I don't think I have any particular talent for prediction, because when you have three or four elements in hand, you don't have to be a genius to reach certain conclusions.
Antonio Tabucchi
#35. Talent and genius operate outside the rules, and theory conflicts with practice.
Carl Von Clausewitz
#36. By and large, talent is in such short supply that mediocrity can be taken for brilliance rather more than genius can go undiscovered.
Charles Saatchi
#40. 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
#41. Talent is what you possess; genius is what possesses you.
Malcolm Cowley
#43. Talent shuffles the deck. Genius brings a new deck.
Mason Cooley
#44. Character is greater than talent, genius, fame, money, friends - there is nothing to compare with it. A man may have all these and yet remain comparatively useless - be unhappy - and die a bankrupt in soul.
George Matthew Adams
#45. The inventor, the man with a unique, specialized talent, is the only real super-genius. But he is so rare that he needs no consideration.
Charles M. Schwab
#46. A talent for drama is not a talent for writing, but is ability to articulate human relationships.
Gore Vidal
#47. Genius is talent provided with ideals. Genius starves while talent wears purple and fine linen. The man of genius of today will infifty years' time be in most cases no more than a man of talent.
W. Somerset Maugham
#48. There are dozens of ways of failing to make money. It is one thing to fail to make money because your single talent happens to be a flair amounting to genius for translating the plays of Aristophanes. It is quite another thing to fail to make money because you are black, or a child, or a woman.
Margaret Halsey
#53. Talent is hereditary; it may be the common possession of a whole family (eg, the Bach family); genius is not transmitted; it is never diffused, but is strictly individual.
Otto Weininger
#54. What men want is not talent, it is purpose; in other words, not the power to achieve, but will to labor. I believe that labor judiciously and continuously applied becomes genius.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
#55. The difference between talent and genius is this: while the former usually develops some special branch of our faculties, the latter commands them all. When the former is combined with tact, it is often more than a match for the latter.
Benjamin Disraeli
#56. A genius does what he masters. An ordinary man tries to master what he does.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#57. Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#58. It is not because the touch of genius has roused genius to production, but because the admiration of genius has made talent ambitious, that the harvest is still so abundant.
Margaret Fuller
#59. Genius is a talent only for living, those who possess it have little gift for dying.
Janet Flanner
#60. God gives talent. Work transforms talent into genius.
Anna Pavlova
#61. A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius.
Charles Horton Cooley
#63. 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
#64. Talent is a faculty that is highly developed, but genius commands all the faculties.
Francis Herbert Hedge
#65. Genius is the talent for seeing things straight.
Maude Adams
#66. Talent without genius isn't much, but genius without talent is nothing whatsoever.
Paul Valery
#67. It is often said that in Ireland there is an excess of genius unsustained by talent; but there is talent in the tongues.
V.S. Pritchett
#68. Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#70. True education makes for inequality; the inequality of individuality, the inequality of success, the glorious inequality of talent, of genius.
Felix Schelling
#71. Genius can write on the back of old envelopes but mere talent requires the finest stationery available.
Dorothy Parker
#73. We must have recourse to the rules of music when our genius and our ear seem to deny what we are seeking.
Jean-Philippe Rameau
#74. Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.
Carl Jung
#75. Talent is the infinite capacity for taking pains. Genius is the infinite capacity for achievement without taking any pains at all.
Helene Hanff
#76. Talent will take you to the mountaintop. Genius will take you to the edge of the universe.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#78. Talent or skill wasn't how you recognized a genius. A genius was the person giving the world the eff-you salute while doing the impossible.
Rae Mariz
#79. A man possesses talent; genius possesses the man.
Isaac Stern
#81. 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
#82. To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent. To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius.
Henri Frederic Amiel
#83. What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road empirically, following one's nose, taking shortcuts.
Italo Calvino
#84. The distinction between talent and genius is definite. Talent combines and uses; genius combines and creates.
Anna Brownell Jameson
#85. I put all my talent into my works; I put my genius into my life
Oscar Wilde
#87. There is in the DNA of the Italians a bit of madness, which in the overwhelming majority of cases is positive. It is genius. It is talent. It's the masterpieces of art. It's the food, fashion, everything that makes Italy great in the world.
Matteo Renzi
#88. Skill gives you the sky,
talent gives you the stars,
and genius gives you the universe.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#89. How are men to be secured in any rights without instruction; how to be secured in the equal exercise of those rights without equality of instruction? By instruction understand me to mean knowledge - just knowledge; not talent, not genius, not inventive mental powers.
Frances Wright
#90. Genius learns from nature, its own nature. Talent learns from art.
Oscar Wilde
#91. Talent is a spring from which fresh water is constantly flowing. But this spring loses its value if it is not used in the right way.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
#92. Love can reach the same level of talent, and even genius, as the discovery of differential calculus.
Lev Vygotsky
#93. The most exciting thing about women's liberation is that this century will be able to take advantage of talent and potential genius that have been wasted because of taboos.
Helen Reddy
#94. The most mesmerizing of artists is always like one who was merely drawing in the sand and people came to watch.
Criss Jami
#95. Talent I say is what an actor needs. And talent is faith in oneself, one's own powers.
Maxim Gorky
#97. There is hardly a more common error than that of taking the man who has one talent, for a genius.
Arthur Helps
#99. Upper berth, lower berth, that's the difference between talent and genius.
George Gershwin
#100. Bend the rules only if you have learned them; break the rules only if you have mastered them.
Matshona Dhliwayo
