Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are: hard work, stick-to-itiveness, and common sense.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy.
If you accomplish something good with hard work, the labor passes quickly, but the good endures. If you do something shameful in pursuit of pleasure, the pleasure passes quickly, but the shame endures.
It is a mistake to think that the practice of my art has become easy to me. No one has given so much care to the study of composition as I.
There are no silver bullets for this, only lead bullets.
