Anna Freud Quotes

Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature.

To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent. To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius.

Because, you know, resilience - if you think of it in terms of the Gold Rush, then you'd be pretty depressed right now because the last nugget of gold would be gone. But the good thing is, with innovation, there isn't a last nugget. Every new thing creates two new questions and two new opportunities.

I had noticed that many of these successful people, historical and contemporary, shared certain common traits. They had a way of thinking that was exceptionally fluid; they could adapt to almost any circumstance; when confronted with problems, they could look at them from novel perspectives and solve them.

Creativity is a huge part of my game as a player. It helps open doors which others don't see.

The thing about genius is it will never yield to circumstances. Genius regards what's given as the beginning of its need to find or devise something else.

Genius is the gold in the mine, talent is the miner who works and brings it out.

Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything.

Creativity and business acumen don't always go hand in hand.

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.

To me, very much of what is artistic is people's very creative and inventive ways out of impossible situations.

Man is a genius when he is dreaming.

Without an open-minded mind, you can never be a great success.

I was not naturally talented. I didn't sing, dance or act, though working around that minor detail made me inventive.

There is no off position on the genius switch.

In Silicon Valley, if you spend a lot of time thinking about the obstacles, you'll talk yourself out of everything, because the more you look at it, the less logical something sounds, since no one has done it yet.

Young men and young women, full of courage, originality, and genius, are everywhere to be met with.

Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.

Genius does what it must, and talent does what it can.

Genius not only diagnoses the situation but supplies the answers.

One of the strongest characteristics of genius is the power of lighting its own fire.

I admire people who are creative.

What Einstein was able to do was - to use a cliche - think out of the box.

With the stones we cast at them, geniuses build new roads with them.

There are many talented people.