Best work & genius Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?”

Source: Not Your Usual Founding Father: Selected Readings from Benjamin Franklin

“There is no such thing as unfortunate genius; if a man or woman is fit for work, God appoints the field.”

Ifs Men Work Fields Genius Fit Unfortunate

Source: Infelicia and Other Writings

“The woman and the genius do not work. Up to now, woman has been mankind's supreme luxury. In all those moments when we do our best, we do not work. Work is merely a means to these moments.”

Mean Has Beens Moments Women Work Mankind Genius Supreme Luxury

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“This surface good-nature which captivates a new acquaintance and is no bar to treachery, which knows no scruple and is never at fault for an excuse, which makes an outcry at the wound which it condones, is one of the most distinctive features of the journalist. This camaraderie (the word is a stroke of genius) corrodes the noblest minds; it eats into their pride like rust, kills the germ of great deeds, and lends a sanction to moral cowardice.”

“In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous.”

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Book:The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

“Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.”

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Author:Joseph Joubert

“God gives talent. Work transforms talent into genius.”

“Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.”

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Author:Leonardo da Vinci

“I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.”

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Book:Oscar Wilde's Wit and Wisdom: A Book of Quotations

Source: Oscar Wilde's Wit and Wisdom: A Book of Quotations

“An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in the dark - that is critical genius.”

May Together Individual Work Dark Audience Genius Thousand Members Critical Imbeciles

Author:Billy Wilder

“The major work of the world is not done by geniuses. It is done by ordinary people, with balance in their lives, who have learned to work in an extraordinary manner.”

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Author:Gordon B. Hinckley

“The guy who invented the first wheel was an idiot. The guy who invented the other three, he was a genius.”

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Author:Sid Caesar

“Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.”

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Author:Thomas Carlyle

“I don't believe in geniuses, I believe in hard work.”

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Author:Michel Petrucciani

“I don't have a lot of respect for talent. Talent is genetic. It's what you do with it that counts.”

Work Talent Genius Respect

Book:Martin Ritt: Interviews

Source: Martin Ritt: Interviews

“One of the strongest characteristics of genius is the power of lighting its own fire.”

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Book:The life and thoughts of John Foster

Source: The life and thoughts of John Foster

“We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later.”

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Author:Louis Aragon

“Genius is often a short way of spelling hard work. Poverty, obscurity, struggle and ambition formed the foundation for many careers of transcendent achievement. Few marks are made in the world's history by eight-hour-day men.... Sir Joshua Reynolds had but one maxim for success: Work, work, work. Is not rigid and continuous training necessary for the making of strong athletes? Hard work is not fatal to real success. Vouloir c'est pouvoir.”

“Though you may have known clever men who were indolent, you never knew a great man who was so; and when I hear a young man spoken of as giving promise of great genius, the first question I ask about him always is, Does he work?”

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Book:The Two Paths

Source: The Two Paths

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