Skill is fine, and genius is splendid, but the right contacts are more valuable than either. Arthur Conan Doyle, Sr. quotes Genius is no respecter of time, trouble, money or persons, the four things around which human affairs turn most persistently. Samuel Butler quotes Men of genius are meteors intended to burn to light their century. Napoleon Bonaparte quotes Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them. Joseph Joubert quotes Force always attracts men of low morality, and I believe it to be an invariable rule that tyrants of genius are succeeded by scoundrels. Albert Einstein quotes Common sense is only a modification of talent. Genius is an exaltatin of it. The difference is therefore in degree, not nature. Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton quotes Press on: nothing in the world can take the place of perseverance. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. Calvin Coolidge quotes Common sense is genius in homespun. Alfred North Whitehead quotes Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration! Thomas Alva Edison quotes Genius is a nuisance, and it is the duty of schools and colleges to abate it by setting genius-traps in its way. Samuel Butler quotes |