“… 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 1949

Wolfgang Köhler (1887–1967) German-American psychologist and phenomenologist

Source: Gestalt Psychology. 1930, p. 61

“Everything means nothing—that is the only truth.”

Michael Moorcock (1939) English writer, editor, critic

Source: Short fiction, To Rescue Tanelorn... (1962), p. 472

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

Malcolm Gladwell (1963) journalist and science writer

“Terrorism': the word that means nothing, yet justifies everything.”

Glenn Greenwald (1967) American journalist, lawyer and writer

“Beware the things of this world that can mean everything or nothing.”

Adriana Trigiani (1970) American film director

Source: The Shoemaker's Wife

“If “humility” means nothing more than the capacity to learn from criticism, then it has an undoubted value; but if “humility” means a willingness to submit to authority—to abandon or to modify what one is doing merely because it does not accord with the teachings of the Bible or the thoughts of Chairman Mao—then it is death to the spirit: the proper name for it, indeed, is “servility.””

John Passmore (1914–2004) Australian philosopher

Source: The Perfectibility of Man (1971), p. 289.

“It means if you work hard, you should make a decent living. If you work hard, you should be able to support a family.”

Barack Obama (1961) 44th President of the United States of America

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.