Genius
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Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.
The true genius shudders at incompleteness — and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.
What moves those of genius, what inspires their work is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough.
While Napoleon believed his fortunes to be governed by destiny, his real genius lay in self-control and martial daring coupled with an indomitable will to power.
Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.
When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
I have never been an innovator, a creative genius.
The world is not so much in need of new thoughts as that when thought grows old and worn with usage it should, like current coin, be called in, and, from the mint of genius, reissued fresh and new.