Billy Eckstine Quotes

Talent is some one faculty unusually developed; genius commands all the faculties.

There's a stark difference between the words 'prodigy' and 'genius.' Prodigies can very quickly learn what other people have already figured out; geniuses discover that which no one has ever previously discovered. Prodigies learn; geniuses do.

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

Genius is another word for magic.

Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.

Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.

A genius is someone with the ability to come up with ideas that are new, surprising and valuable.

A genius is somebody who seemingly just reaches out of nowhere.

There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit

Genius declares itself to be a kind of higher masculinity.

Talent is the ability to say things well, but genius is the ability to, well, say things.

Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.

Genius does what it must, and talent does what it can.

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

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

Talent may frolic and juggle; genius realizes and adds.

Genius is talent provided with ideals. Genius starves while talent wears purple and fine linen. The man of genius of today will infifty years' time be in most cases no more than a man of talent.

Genius is what makes us forget the master's talent.

Talent warms-up the given (as they say in cookery) and makes it apparent; genius brings something new. But our time lets talent pass for genius. They want to abolish the genius, deify the genius, and let talent forge ahead.

... the genius never makes anything new, but always something that is just different, and the average talents provide him the possibility within which his genius condenses into achievements.

Of the three prerequisites of genius; the first is soul; the second is soul; and the third is soul.

Neither can we admit that definition of genius that some would propose--"a power to accomplish all that we undertake;" for we might multiply examples to prove that this definition of genius contains more than the thing defined. Cicero failed in poetry, Pope in painting, Addison in oratory; yet it would be harsh to deny genius to these men.

Genius is an exceedingly common human quality, probably natural to most of us.

And what is Genius but finer love, a love impersonal, a love of the flower and perfection of things, and a desire to draw a new picture or copy of the same? It looks to the cause and life: it proceeds from within outward, whilst Talent goes from without inward.

alent is like the marksman who hits a target which others cannot reach; genius is like the marksman who hits a target, as far as which others cannot even see.