It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Genius is immediate, but talent takes time.
By and large, talent is in such short supply that mediocrity can be taken for brilliance rather more than genius can go undiscovered.
Talent works, genius creates.
Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.
A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius.
It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.
Talent is nothing but a prolonged period of attention and a shortened period of mental assimilation.
No one can arrive from being talented alone, work transforms talent into genius.
Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.
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