Ability Quote by Steve Martin

Talent is that which is in a man's power; genius is that in whose power a man is.

— James Russell Lowell

Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.

— Anonymous

Talent is what you possess; genius is what possesses you.

— Malcolm Cowley

Talent does whatever it wants to do. Genius does only what it can.

— Eugene Delacroix

Genius is power, talent is applicability.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The difference between talent and genius is this: while the former usually develops some special branch of our faculties, the latter commands them all.…

— Benjamin Disraeli

Talent is the capacity of doing anything that depends on application and industry and it is a voluntary power, while genius is involuntary.

— William Hazlitt

A talent is one who sees explicitly his capability and capacity to do the real wonders in others eyes, but often fails to muster…

— Anuj Somany

A talent is one who sees explicitly his capability and capacity to do the real wonders in others eyes, but often fails to muster…

— Anuj Somany

Genius does what it must, and talent does what it can.

— Anonymous

The difference between Talent and Genius is that Talent says things which he has never heard but once, and Genius things which he has…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

You can do something with talent, but nothing with genius.

— Margot Asquith