Georges-Louis Leclerc de Buffon Quotes

Genius is simply patience carried to the extreme.

Genius is patience.

Talent is long patience.

Without patience, there can be no genius

patience is an integral part of talent.

You can't have genius without patience.

If you knew how much work went into it, you wouldn't call it genius.

Genius is nothing but continued attention.

We can all be geniuses because one definition of genius is the infinite capacity for taking pains.

Genius is eternal patience.

People call me a genius. I don't know much about geniuses. But I do believe that what I achieved was not just because of the ability that I was born with but also because I worked hard.

Everybody has talent, but ability takes hard work.

Genius is the art of taking pains

Keep showing up for your side of the job and give genius a chance to do its part.

That adage about genius being 5 percent inspiration and 95 perspiration - it's true.

Not art and science only, but patience will be required for the work.

Genius is merely the capacity for taking infinite pains.

'Genius' which means transcendent capacity of taking trouble, first of all.

Genius is the father of a heavenly line, but the mortal mother, that is industry.

Genius consists of equal parts of natural aptitude and hard work.

Sometimes [genius] is just the thing that emerges after twenty years of working at your kitchen table.

I always say perseverance is nine-tenths of any art — not that it's much help to be nine-tenths an artist, of course.

Nothing is so envied as genius, nothing so hopeless of attainment by labor alone. Though labor always accompanies the greatest genius, without the intellectual gift labor alone will do little.

Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.

Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.