Johann Kaspar Lavater Quotes

Genius is immediate, but talent takes time.

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

Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature.

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

I have a lot of respect for people with a lot of talent.

Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.

Genius is power, talent is applicability.

Genius is the capacity of avoiding hard work.

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

Talent is a tenant in the house owned by genius.

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

Execution is the chariot of genius.

Talent is the ability to say things well, but genius is the ability to, well, say things.

Talent is what you possess; genius is what possesses you.

Talent works, genius creates.

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

Ideas are a capital that bears interest only in the hands of talent.

When you're talented, you're talented.

Young men and young women, full of courage, originality, and genius, are everywhere to be met with.

I'm never worried about being upstaged. I love to have the best, most individual people come in and see if we hit on something.

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

The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius.

God gives talent. Work transforms talent into genius.

Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.