Frederick Henry Hedge Quotes

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

Talent wears well, genius wears itself out; talent drives a snug brougham in fact; genius, a sun-chariot in fancy.

... Geniuses have a little extra something. There's that little something that you know is a little different.

Talent is a tenant in the house owned by genius.

Talent is that which is in a man's power; genius is that in whose power a man is.

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

Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.

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

There is the same difference between talent and genius that there is between a stone mason and a sculptor

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

Genius is only a greater aptitude for patience.

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

What is genius? It is the power to be a boy again at will.

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.

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

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

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

I won some genetic lottery. I always happened to be strangely good at mathematics in my head. I just popped out weird.

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.

I know people I feel are extremely talented, but I don't know that I've ever heard any geniuses.

Where a beast would have claws, I was born with talent.

Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.

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

For what we are about to see next, we must enter quietly into the realm of genius!