• It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists.

    Georg C. Lichtenberg: It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists.
    "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook K 48, 1799.