Ambition Quote by Brian Tracy

An average person with average talents and ambition and average education, can outstrip the most brilliant genius in our society, if that person has…

— Mary Kay Ash

“An average person with average talent, ambition and education can outstrip the most brilliant genius in our society, if that person has clear, focused…

— Brian Tracy

Genius is talent provided with ideals.

— Anonymous

A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius.

— Charles Horton Cooley

Society cannot contribute anything to the breeding and growing of ingenious men. A creative genius cannot be trained. There are no schools for creativeness.…

— Ludwig von Mises

A genius is one who can do anything except make a living.

— Joey Lauren Adams

Genius must have talent as its complement and implement, just as in like manner imagination must have fancy. In short, the higher intellectual powers…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Talent finds its models, methods, and ends in society, exists for exhibition, and goes to the soul only for power to work. Genius is…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Talent is able to achieve what is beyond other people's capacity to achieve, yet not what is beyond their capacity of apprehension; therefore it…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Genius is power, talent is applicability.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A genius is a person who is seeing further and probing deeper than other people has a different set of ethical valuations from their…

— George Bernard Shaw

The definition of genius, really, should be that that person can do what the rest of us have to learn how to do.

— James Lipton