If there be anything that can be called genius, it consists chiefly in ability to give that attention to a subject which keeps it steadily in the mind, till we have surveyed it accurately on all sides.
Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations Library, 1997.
-- Theodor Reik, (May 12 1888-1969), US psychoanalyst, author; He was a pupil of Freud who disagreed with him on theories of sex and love; wrote The Psychology of Sex Relations, 1945.