F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes

What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.

Ideas are a capital that bears interest only in the hands of talent.

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

I'm always creative.

Talent may frolic and juggle; genius realizes and adds.

Talent works, genius creates.

Young men and young women, full of courage, originality, and genius, are everywhere to be met with.

One of the strongest characteristics of genius is the power of lighting its own fire.

People may say that what I do is very clever, but it's not really at all. It's not Swift.

The difference between being able to understand something and inventing it in the first place... is called genius.

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

Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.

Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.

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

I have never been an innovator, a creative genius.

For one person who is blessed with the power of invention, many will always be found who have the capacity of applying principles.

I used to worry that I had a finite supply of ideas, that I should hold on to each of them in case it was the last. But then I talked to other cartoonists, and I realized ideas are cheap; you can have a million ideas. The tricky part is the follow-through: making good ones work, making the best out of the raw material!

I always got ideas.

Geniuses don't have better ideas than the rest of us. They just have more of them.

I need to be creative all the time.

Genius gives birth, talent delivers.

Creativity is a by-product of hard work. If I never have another really new idea, it won't matter.

Giving calls for genius.

Talent is full of thoughts, Genius is thought. Talent is a cistern, Genius a fountain.

There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all.