Anticipate Quote by Charles Caleb Colton

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

“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

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

“Universality is the distinguishing mark of genius. There is no such thing as a special genius, a genius for mathematics, or for music, or…

— Otto Weininger

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

“Most geniuses are geniuses because of the way they manage their natural talents. He was one because of the way he took advantage of…

— Albert Sánchez Piñol

Genius is power, talent is applicability.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is the curse of talent that, although it labors with greater steadiness and perseverance than genius, it does not reach its goal, while…

— Robert Schumann

Genius is talent provided with ideals.

— Anonymous

“genius is a path that we can all take and derive much benefit, happiness, fulfillment, and success from...not a genetic windfall or divine gift.…

— Sean Patrick

... the genius never makes anything new, but always something that is just different, and the average talents provide him the possibility within which…

— Robert Musil

A man possesses talent; genius possesses the man.

— Isaac Stern