“One has no talent. I have no talent. It's just a question of working, of being willing to put in the time.”
“No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent, work transforms talent into genius.”
“I resented the idea of being talented. I couldn’t respect it — in my experience, no one else did. Being called talented at school had only made me a target for resentment. I wanted to work. Work, I could honor.”
“Hard work and perseverance trumps talent most of the time. Talent plus hard work? Virtually unstoppable.”
“I put all my talent into my works; I put my genius into my life”
“When one has talent, everything contributes to its development.”