Brian Herbert Quotes

Talent may frolic and juggle; genius realizes and adds.

First have being in your mind. Make real in your mind then bring that being into reality. The genius is he who sees what is not yet and causes it to come to be.

Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature.

Upper berth, lower berth, that's the difference between talent and genius.

The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so few have imagination that there are ten thousand fiddlers to one composer.

Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.

Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.

I have never been an innovator, a creative genius.

Vision - It reaches beyond the thing that is, into the conception of what can be. Imagination gives you the picture. Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

Genius gives birth, talent delivers.

the distinction between talent and genius is definite. Talent combines and uses; genius combines and creates.

Without passion, there is no genius.

Giving calls for genius.

Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.

Anything you can imagine, you can create.

Genius points the way, talent takes it.

... people made the imaginary real all the time: taking the music they heard in their head and recording it, seeing a house in their imagination and building it. Fantasy was always only a reality waiting to be switched on.

We have got to abandon the sense of amazement in the face of creativity, as if it were a miracle if anybody created anything.

No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.

Talent works, genius creates.

Without craftsmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind.

Of course creativity is a mystery. We don't know what drives it or what constitutes it. It's one of those things, like genius, you know it when you see it but it's impossible to define.

Man is a genius when he is dreaming.

Genius is talent set on fire by courage.