Hilary Hahn Quotes

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

Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.

God gives talent. Work transforms talent into genius.

Genius is immediate, but talent takes time.

Genius is eternal patience.

Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Without patience, there can be no genius

Remarkable visions and genuine insight are always met with resistance. And when you start to make progress, your efforts are met with even more resistance. Products, services, career paths... whatever it is, the forces for mediocrity will align to stop you, forgiving no errors and never backing down until it's over

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

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

Genius is nothing more nor less than doing well what anyone can do badly.

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

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

Who in the same given time can produce more than others has vigor; who can produce more and better, has talents; who can produce what none else can, has genius.

Genius is rarely able to give any account of its own processes.

Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old - old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

It's not just about waking up and trying to be a star... It's practice, practice, practice.

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

No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.

Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.

Surprise drives progress because innovation depends on the sort of knowledge no one can gather in a central place.

Genius is patience.

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

Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.

No one can arrive from being talented alone, work transforms talent into genius.