Source: Gestalt Psychology. 1930, p. 61
“… talent means nothing, while experience, acquired in humility and with hard work, means everything.”
Source: Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
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German writer and screenwriter 1949Related quotes

“Everything means nothing—that is the only truth.”
Source: Short fiction, To Rescue Tanelorn... (1962), p. 472

“Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning.”

“Terrorism': the word that means nothing, yet justifies everything.”
“Beware the things of this world that can mean everything or nothing.”
Source: The Shoemaker's Wife

2013, Remarks on Economic Mobility (December 2013)
Context: It was Adam Smith, the father of free-market economics, who once said, “They who feed, clothe, and lodge the whole body of the people should have such a share of the produce of their own labor as to be themselves tolerably well fed, clothed, and lodged.” And for those of you who don’t speak old-English let me translate. It means if you work hard, you should make a decent living. If you work hard, you should be able to support a family.


“Genius is 1% talent and 99% percent hard work…”

“Everybody has talent, but ability takes hard work.”