Sentence examples for born genius from inspiring English sources

The reviewer Steve Smith even called Korngold "a born genius who struggled long and hard to achieve mediocrity".

Yet, the journalist added, the opera "contains so many beauties, and such a richness of thought as can proceed only from the born genius".

In his popular book "The Immortal Game," David Shenk said great chess players were made, not born, writing, "Cognitive chess research punctured the longstanding myth of the chess prodigy, the born genius".

So, if you're not a born genius or overachiever, what personalities actually make-up entrepreneurs?

He (or she) happily ventures half-truths, quasi-facts and hearsay with the confidence of a born genius.

In The Manchester Guardian, Eric Blom wrote, "This young composer is a born genius" and said that it was tempting to call the concerto the best thing in recent music of any nationality.

He believes that science is not the result of people who are born geniuses, but of investigators who are relentlessly curious.

The young women featured in She Started It were not born confident and resilient, nor were they born geniuses, they practiced and worked hard at it.

"This is not creativity born of genius," he wrote.

The result is an original American art, born of genius and necessity, that's now more than 200 years old.

If you were born a genius in Shanghai in 1960, for example, your chances of making much contribution to the larger world were small, because China was largely isolated back then — and extremely unfree economically.