Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect. Johnson, The Rambler , 1750-2 All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man. A man is not necessarily intelligent because he has plenty of ideas, any more than he is a good general because he has plenty of soldiers. If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
Patience is genius.
Every production of a genius must be the product of enthusiasm. Benjamin Disraeli Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.