Put your talent into your work, but your genius into your life

Put your talent into your work, but your genius into your life

To think, and to feel, constitute the two grand divisions of men
of genius--the men of reasoning and the read more

To think, and to feel, constitute the two grand divisions of men
of genius--the men of reasoning and the men of imagination.

There is nothing new in art except talent.rn

There is nothing new in art except talent.rn

Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius.

Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius.

I don't want to be a genius--I have enough problems just trying to be a man.

I don't want to be a genius--I have enough problems just trying to be a man.

Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.

Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.

You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light.

You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light.

Common sense is perhaps the most equally divided, but surely the most under-employed, talent in the world.

Common sense is perhaps the most equally divided, but surely the most under-employed, talent in the world.

Sometimes men come by the name of genius in the same way that certain insects come by the name of read more

Sometimes men come by the name of genius in the same way that certain insects come by the name of centipede--not because they have a hundred feet, but because most people can't count above fourteen.