Who in the same given time can produce more than others has vigor; who can produce more and better, has talents; who can produce what none else can, has genius.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Individuals, too, who cultivate a variety of skills seem brighter, more energetic and more adaptable than those who know how to do one thing only.
Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
Those who have wrought great changes in the world never succeeded by gaining over chiefs; but always by exciting the multitude. The first is the resource of intrigue and produces only secondary results, the second is the resort of genius and transforms the universe.
Those who produce should have, but we know that those who produce the most - that is, those who work hardest, and at the most difficult and most menial tasks, have the least.
It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.
A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius.
No one can arrive from being talented alone, work transforms talent into genius.
Talent is what you possess; genius is what possesses you.
All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.
Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.