Talent and effort, combined with our various backgrounds and life experiences, has always been the lifeblood of our singular American genius.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Talent works, genius creates.
Talent is a faculty that is highly developed, but genius commands all the faculties.
Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.
By and large, talent is in such short supply that mediocrity can be taken for brilliance rather more than genius can go undiscovered.
Genius is immediate, but talent takes time.
Every person is endowed with God-given abilities, and we must cultivate every ounce of talent we have in order to maintain our pinnacle position in the world.
Genius is talent set on fire by courage.
No one can arrive from being talented alone, work transforms talent into genius.
Genius is the talent of a person who is dead.
Talent is what you possess; genius is what possesses you.