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Genius and Hard Work are Traveling Companions… "Genius is fostered by industry." "Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them." Joseph Joubert "God and Nature first made us what we are, and then out of our own created genius we make ourselves what we want to be. Follow always that great law. Let the sky and God be our limit and Eternity our measurement." Marcus Garvey "Genius is eternal patience." Michelangelo "Genius does take short cuts, but it rarely escapes initial drudgery." William Feather "Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration." Thomas Edison All of Us Possess Genius; It’s Our Responsibility to Tap Into That Genius "Genius is not a possession of the limited few, but exists in some degree in everyone. Where there is natural growth, a full and free play of faculties, genius will manifest itself." Robert Henri "Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them." Buckminster Fuller "Genius is childhood recaptured." Charles Baudelaire "In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty." Ralph Waldo Emerson "Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together." G. C. Lichtenberg Genius Equals Clear Vision Plus New Perspective "The principal mark of genius is not perfection, but
originality, the opening of new frontiers." "Talent is what you possess. Genius is what possesses you." Malcolm Cowley "Genius is another word for magic, and the whole point of magic is that it is inexplicable." Margot Fonteyn "Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius." Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart "Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire." Bern Williams "One of the strongest characteristics of genius is the power of lighting its own fire." John Foster  |
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penned The Star Spangled Banner. In 1920, the publication of This Side
of Paradise made the 24-year-old F. Scott Fitzgerald (pictured here) an
instant celebrity. Almost immediately, Fitzgerald (with his new bride Zelda)
embarked upon a hedonistic lifestyle that mirrored the Zeitgeist of the
Roaring Twenties. Alcohol abuse probably limited Fitzgerald’s literary output
and shortened his life. When he died in 1940 (after a largely unsuccessful
tenure as a screenwriter in Hollywood), Fitzgerald may have considered himself a
failure. However by 1950, his work had been "rediscovered," and today,
his most enduring work The Great Gatsby is considered by many to be one
of the classic novels of in the history of 20th century American
literature. Fitzgerald once observed, "Genius is the ability to put into
effect what is in your mind." Certainly he fit that description, and below,
we consider more ideas designed to awaken the creative genius in you.