Action Quote by Walter Russell

Is not the tremendous strength in men of the impulse to creative work in every field precisely due to their feeling of playing a…

— Karen Horney

Every successful man or great genius has three particular qualities in common. The most conspicuous of these is that they all produce a prodigious…

— Walter Russell

But I do say that educated and scholarly men, if they’re brilliant and creative to begin with—which, unfortunately, is rarely the case—tend to leave…

— Anonymous

Men of lofty genius sometimes accomplish the most when they work least, for their minds are occupied with their ideas and the perfection of…

— Leonardo da Vinci

Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Men of genius sometimes accomplish most when they work the least, for they are thinking out inventions and forming in their minds the perfect…

— Giorgio Vasari

Genius, without work, is certainly a dumb oracle, and it is unquestionably true that the men of the highest genius have invariably been found…

— Samuel Smiles

Many of the greatest men have owed their success to industry rather than to cleverness.

— John Lubbock

Men of genius sometimes accomplish most when they work least, for they are thinking out inventions.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Men despise great projects when they do not feel themselves capable of great successes.

— Luc de Clapiers

Men are not really born either hopelessly idle, or preternaturally industrious. They may move in one direction or the other as will or circumstances…

— Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook

I am sure that few successful men are so-called 'natural geniuses.'

— Charles M. Schwab