Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.

Quote by F Scott Fitzgerald

Topics: Ability Quotes

Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go by any rules. They're not like aches...

Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go by any rules. They're not like aches...

Gatsby, pale as death, with his hands plunged like weights in his coat pockets, was...

Gatsby, pale as death, with his hands plunged like weights in his coat pockets, was...

Action is character.

Action is character.

I love her and that's the beginning of everything.

I love her and that's the beginning of everything.

Family quarrels are bitter things. They dont go according to any rules. Theyre not like...

Family quarrels are bitter things. They dont go according to any rules. Theyre not like...

I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart...

I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart...

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they...

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they...

Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck.

Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck.

Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.

Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.

The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered...

The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered...

All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.

All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.

There are no second acts in American lives.

There are no second acts in American lives.

I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me...

I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me...

His parents were shiftless and unsuccessful farm people - his imagination had never really accepted...

His parents were shiftless and unsuccessful farm people - his imagination had never really accepted...

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in...

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in...

Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.

Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.

Only remember west of the Mississippi it's a little more look, see, act. A little...

Only remember west of the Mississippi it's a little more look, see, act. A little...

For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or...

For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or...

Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest...

Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest...