Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

Creative genius is a divinely bestowed gift which is the coronation of the few.

I was born with the gift.

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 is a flame. Genius is a fire.

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

I believe in the God-given genius of certain individuals, and I value a society that makes their existence possible.

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

Anybody can put things together that belong together. to put things together that don't go together, and make it work, that takes genius like Mozart's. Yet he is presented in the play Amadeus as a kind of silly boy whom the gods loved.

A man possesses talent; genius possesses the man.

Mozart was born Mozart. Charlie Parker was born Charlie Parker.

Olivier was another case of a genius, who couldn't understand why anybody would have any trouble doing this, because for him it came so easily.

Genius must be born, and never can be taught.

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

The word diva to me means doing something supernatural with something natural.

Time, place, and action may with pains be wrought, but genius must be born; and never can be taught.

It's called talent. I just have it. I can't explain it. You either have it or you don't.

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.

A true freak cannot be made. A true freak must be born.

There are some guys that can roll out of bed and they can throw 96 from the very first outing. I've just never been one of those guys.

I'm like one of those dudes who organically have talent.

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

Talent is some one faculty unusually developed; genius commands all the faculties.

He is gifted with genius who knoweth much by natural inspiration.

How full of the creative genius is the air in which these [snowflakes] are generated! I should hardly admire them more if real stars fell and lodged on my coat. Nature is full of genius. Full of the divinity. So that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.