Charles M. Schwab Quotes

Parts like Morse don't grow on trees. He's a great character.

Hendrix was a natural genius who played many beautiful styles. Talent as great as his doesn't come through life very frequently. Hendrix was one in a billion.

The entertainment industry is loaded with extraordinarily talented people. But the true, genuine originals, they're rare.

The proportion of genius to the vulgar is like one to a million.

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

Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.

And we owe science to the combined energies of individual men of genius, rather than to any tendency to progress inherent in civilization.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

I cannot escape from the conclusion that the great ages of progress have depended upon a small number of individuals of transcendent ability.

Only once in a thousand years or so do we get to hear a Mozart or see a Picasso or read a Shakespeare. Ali was one of them, and yet at his heart, he was still a kid from Louisville who ran with the gods and walked with the crippled and smiled at the foolishness of it all.

An amazing gift in a young child is, in some ways, an abnormality.

I'm a once in a lifetime professional wrestler. I'm something that people are never going to get to see again.

You couldn't make a Steve Vai. That's a one-in-a-billion type of personality that comes out together with an incredible talent facility. You grow it; you help them grow it. Hopefully, it matures, and they don't hit any roadblocks along the way.

There are very few things of virtuosity or genius that you can actually witness.

probably the greatest concentration of talent and genius in this house except for perhaps those times when Thomas Jefferson ate alone.

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.

Talent may frolic and juggle; genius realizes and adds.

When nature removes a great man, people explore the horizon for a successor; but none comes, and none will. His class is extinguished with him. In some other and quite different field, the next man will appear.

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.

You have a talent that is unique in its expression, so unique that there's no one else alive on this planet that has that talent, or that expression of that talent. This means that there's one thing you can do and one way of doing it that is better than anyone else on this entire planet.

A genius is a man who does unique things of which nobody would expect him to be capable.

Perhaps five or even ten per cent of men can do something rather well. It is a tiny minority who can do anything really well, and the number of men who can do two things well is negligible. If a man has any genuine talent, he should be ready to make almost any sacrifice in order to cultivate it to the full.

That was the very centre of his genius - he invented things that anyone could have thought of, and men who can invent things that anyone could have thought of are very rare men.

While legislation can stimulate and encourage, the real creative ability which builds up and develops the country, and in general makes human existence more tolerable and life more complete, has to be supplied by the genius of the people themselves. The Government can supply no substitute for enterprise.