"Genius is immediate, but talent takes time." — Janet Flanner
"Genius is immediate, but talent takes time."
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14 Quotes by Janet Flanner
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The older women were Sunbeams and I guess we were Cherubs or Lambs, but our mothers were Nightingales.
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By jove, no wonder women don't love war nor understand it, nor can operate in it as a rule; it…
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Women have invented nothing in all that, except the men who were born as male babies and grew up to…
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In the history of art there are periods when bread seems so beautiful that it nearly gets into museums.
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I act as a sponge. I soak it up and squeeze it out in ink every two weeks.
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I am invariably and have been since adolescence inimical to the Republican mind which shows at the most inflated size…
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The stench of human wreckage in which the Nazi regime finally sank down to defeat has been the most shocking…
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When I hear a writer say that they ‘put in a call,’ I want to pull my hair out.
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She died with a knife in her hand in her kitchen, where she had cooked for fifty years, and the…
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When you look at the startling ruins of Nuremberg, you are looking at a result of the war. When you…
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I keep going over a sentence. I nag it, gnaw it, pat and flatter it.
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She had storms all her life, but she died peacefully.
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More Genius Quotes
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Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius.
— Pietro Aretino
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I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let…
— Pietro Aretino
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There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.
— Aristotle
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There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium…
— Antonin Artaud
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Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.
— Marcus Aurelius
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Surely, if knowledge is valuable, it can never be good policy in a country far wealthier than Tuscany, to allow…
— Charles Babbage
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The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.
— Francis Bacon
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Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much…
— Francis Bacon
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From the naturalistic point of view, all men are equal. There are only two exceptions to this rule of naturalistic…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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The man whose action habitually bears the stamp of his mind is a genius, but the greatest genius is not…
— Honore de Balzac
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Character is greater than talent, genius, fame, money, friends - there is nothing to compare with it. A man may…
— George Matthew Adams
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