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Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton Quote: 'Genius does what it must, and ...'

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In Mozart and Salieri we see the contrast between the genius which does what it must and the talent which does what it can.
Maurice Baring
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Genius is immediate, but talent takes time.


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


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


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


Arthur Conan Doyle
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Talent is a matter of quantity. Talent does not write on page, it writes three hundred.


Jules Renard
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Genius is not perfected, it is deepened. It does not so much interpret the world as fertilize itself with it.
Andre Malraux
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The failure of women to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block the way of all women of talent and ambition for intellectual achievement.
Anna Garlin Spencer
A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.
Joseph Addison
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I've never met a genius. A genius to me is someone who does well at something he hates. Anybody can do well at something he loves - it's just a question of finding the subject.
Clint Eastwood
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The man who puts life into an idea is acclaimed a genius, because he does the right thing at the right time. Therein lies the difference between the genius and a commonplace man.
Douglas Fairbanks
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Talent, like beauty, to be pardoned, must be obscure and unostentatious.


Marguerite Gardiner
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I am a genius. Then it amused me to keep saying so, but now it does not. I expected to be happy sometime. Now I know I shall never be.
Mary MacLane
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When the private does well, there's revenue for the public sector.


Jim Talent
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I think the diva is kind of a cliche. My definition of a diva is somebody whose talent does not match what they're trying to play, so all this temperament comes out.
Glenn Close
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I've got the god given talent or the god given opportunity better put, to let that out in a harmless way you know, and I don't know what it does to you, I don't really know.
Eric Clapton
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All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.


Edward Gibbon
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Every person is endowed with God-given abilities, and we must cultivate every ounce of talent we have in order to maintain our pinnacle position in the world.
Ben Carson
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How does one gain confidence? It's just the repetitive nature of telling you how good you are. How good of a putter and chipper you are. How you've got this. You can beat the best players in the world. You've got all the talent. You just have to believe in yourself.
Jimmy Walker
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Graphic novels are not traditional literature, but that does not mean they are second-rate. Images are a way of writing. When you have the talent to be able to write and to draw, it seems a shame to choose one. I think it's better to do both.
Marjane Satrapi
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