Eignung / Aptitude Gefunden / Found Genius Grund / Reason Häufig / Often Kommen / Coming Phantasie / Imagination Selten / Rarely Vererbt / Inherited Verstehen / Understanding
Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.
Often, M.B.A.s will parachute around from one company or industry to another, without really understanding what's behind it.
What I really have in my head, my imagination, my understanding of music, I never really get that out.
There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
It's not just that reporting gives you a bigger slice of life, gives - lends verisimilitude to what you are doing - it's that it feeds the imagination.
Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.
A discerning eye needs only a hint, and understatement leaves the imagination free to build its own elaborations.
The capacity you're thinking of is imagination; without it there can be no understanding, indeed no fiction.
I was asked to memorise what I did not understand; and, my memory being so good, it refused to be insulted in that manner.
