Karen Kingsbury Quotes

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

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

Everyone gets a pencil as a kid, but it doesn't make them all authors or painters or drawers or anything else.

There are many talented people.

Genius is immediate, but talent takes time.

It's always cool to meet people who can do things that you have no capacity to do.

If you're a human being, you can attempt to do what other human beings have done. We don't understand talent any more than we understand electricity.

Giftedness gives you this amazing tool kit for handling self-discipline and gives you an area of knowledge, but then it also gives you this weird set of aspirations.

God blessed us with talent.

I can create for others.

To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent.

Talent is a tenant in the house owned by genius.

A woman's gifts will make room for her.

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

I probably have genius. But no talent.

You were designed for accomplishment, engineered for success, and endowed with the seeds of greatness.

It is your passion that empowers you to be able to do that thing you were created to do.

Being gifted needs courage.

It's society that disables an individual by not investing in enough creativity to allow for someone to show us the quality that makes them rare and valuable and capable.

I've known people with exceptional talent - and some have wasted it. Ambition spurs a man on.

There are two kinds of talent, man-made talent and God-given talent. With man-made talent you have to work very hard. With God-given talent, you just touch it up once in a while.

You can't teach talent. You can't put in what God left out - but you can teach confidence.

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

I really believe that everyone has a talent, ability, or skill that he can mine to support himself and to succeed in life.

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