Robert Hayden Quotes

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

Genius is only a greater aptitude for patience.

People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel.

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

Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.

Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.

Some people are born with the necessary gift, and some work hard to build on the few gifts they have.

The definition of genius, really, should be that that person can do what the rest of us have to learn how to do.

Other people - they practice and they practice... these fingers of mine, they got brains in 'em. You don't tell them what to do - they do it. God given talent.

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.

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

Genius is the gold in the mine, talent is the miner who works and brings it out.

What we are good at comes easy, and we believe that unless it comes hard, it can't be very good.

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

Genius begins beautiful works, but only labor finishes them.

Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.

Genius is independent of situation.

God gives talent. Work transforms talent into genius.

Genius is patience.

People think I must have been so talented at an early age, but I don't know - was it talent or hard work? Who knows?

It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.

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

Some people don't need to work hard because they are so talented.

To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent. To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius.

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.