Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes

Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.

I think it gets overused and tossed around in ways that aren't true. Every impressive achievement is not genius.

Everybody wants to be great at something.

Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary.

Mediocrity is underrated.

To me, the only sin is mediocrity.

Genius is nothing more nor less than doing well what anyone can do badly.

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.

The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius.

God gives talent. Work transforms talent into genius.

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

I have won many awards and I am very happy about this, but I am not the best player in the world.

Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.

With some many talented people around, it is difficult to cut through competition and stand out.

I want to be great, not good.

The biggest fear in my life is being mediocre.

I don't want to just be known as good. I want to be special.

There's a line between being egotistical and being genius or great.

Talent warms-up the given (as they say in cookery) and makes it apparent; genius brings something new. But our time lets talent pass for genius. They want to abolish the genius, deify the genius, and let talent forge ahead.

A genius is somebody who seemingly just reaches out of nowhere.

We measure genius by quality, not by quantity.

It is only occasional that talent becomes genius - radiating sparks, brilliance, energy, and charismatic magnetism... such a talent was Janis Joplin.

Common sense is only a modification of talent. Genius is an exaltation of it. The difference is, therefore, in degree, not nature.

Passion is like genius: a miracle.

Be special. Be anything but mediocre.