Extraordinary Capacity Quotes

Common sense is only a modification of talent. Genius is an exaltation of it. The difference is, therefore, in degree, not nature.

Nothing's impossible for Rickey. You don't have enough fingers and toes to count out Rickey.

Where a beast would have claws, I was born with talent.

'Genius' which means transcendent capacity of taking trouble, first of all.

I was actually not some sort of a child prodigy by any stretch.

Genius: the superhuman in man.

I've been told by doctors and surgeons that I have the energy of ten men who have normal jobs.

It requires a direct dispensation from Heaven to become a walker.

Neither can we admit that definition of genius that some would propose--"a power to accomplish all that we undertake;" for we might multiply examples to prove that this definition of genius contains more than the thing defined. Cicero failed in poetry, Pope in painting, Addison in oratory; yet it would be harsh to deny genius to these men.