It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Creative genius is a divinely bestowed gift which is the coronation of the few.
We are all gifted, but we have to discover the gift, uncover the gift, nurture and develop the gift and use it for the Glory of God and for the liberation struggle of our people.
A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.
The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.
Nothing is so envied as genius, nothing so hopeless of attainment by labor alone. Though labor always accompanies the greatest genius, without the intellectual gift labor alone will do little.
The greatest gift is the ability to forget - to forget the bad things and focus on the good.
To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.
The greatest gift in life is to be remembered.
You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, and the great charm of all power is modesty.