Howard Stern Quotes

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

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

Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.

I'd rather have a lot of talent and a little experience than a lot of experience and a little talent.

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

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.

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

Poets are born, not paid.

I don't think talent or the gift ever goes away.

I've always been creating, no one had to teach me how to create, I always made things.

You can't make a star - they just have it.

I think I rely on my talent more than my brain sometimes.

Genius gives birth, talent delivers.

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

Confidence in the human capacity for problem solving, for invention, for innovation.

Talent without genius isn't much, but genius without talent is nothing whatsoever.

The most abundant, least used, and most abused resource in the world is human spirit and ingenuity.

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

What has been done in the world - the works of genius - cost nothing. There is no painful effort, but it is the spontaneous flowing of the thought. Shakespeare made his Hamlet as a bird weaves its nest.

There is nothing so remote from vanity as true genius. It is almost as natural for those who are endowed with the highest powers of the human mind to produce the miracles of art, as for other men to breathe or move. Correggio, who is said to have produced some of his divinest works almost without having seen a picture, probably did not know that he had done anything extraordinary.

Talent is a tenant in the house owned by genius.

If we had the power of ten Shakespeares or a dozen Mozarts, we could not produce anything half so marvelous as one ordinary human child.

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

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

Be a good craftsman; it won't stop you from being a genius.