Isaac Stern Quotes

When you're talented, you're talented.

Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.

Genius is immediate, but talent takes time.

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

There is the same difference between talent and genius that there is between a stone mason and a sculptor

Talent without genius isn't much, but genius without talent is nothing whatsoever.

Those that don't got it, can't show it. Those that got it, can't hide it.

It's talent. Either you got it or you ain't.

God gives talent. Work transforms talent into genius.

Talent is a faculty that is highly developed, but genius commands all the faculties.

Some people don't need to work hard because they are so talented.

It always amazes me when I see young people with raw talent and passion.

I know people I feel are extremely talented, but I don't know that I've ever heard any geniuses.

Where a beast would have claws, I was born with talent.

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

Time, place, and action may with pains be wrought, but genius must be born; and never can be taught.

Passion is the genesis of genius.

I'm not talented.

You need raw talent to be successful.

I'm just a regular guy, I just happen to be really talented, and I have a gift from God that I've worked really hard at.

Genius gives birth, talent delivers.

Genius is born-not paid

Self-love is a principle of action; but among no class of human beings has nature so profusely distributed this principle of life and action as through the whole sensitive family of genius.

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

Talent is a tenant in the house owned by genius.