Edison’s motto:
“Genius is one percent inspiration, and ninety-nine prespiration.”
Emerson:
Geniuses stand beyond the texture of their historical circumstances; they shape circumstances.
Why we have so few geniuses around to remake the tenor of our times.
Owen Meredith, Last Words of a Sensitive Second-Rate Poet:
“Genius does what it must, and talent does what it can.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Valley of Fear:
“mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.”
Leo Rosten, Hollywood Historian:
“First-rate people hire first-rate people; second-rate people hire third-rate people.”
Eleanor Roosevelt:
“Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1841;
“Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.”