"I am not a man of any unusual talents; I started out with very moderate abilities; my success has been due to my really remarkable industry--to developing what I had in me to the extreme limit. When a man begins to sharpen one faculty, and keeps on sharpening it with tireless perseverance, he can achieve wonders. Everybody knows it; it's a commonplace, and yet how rare it is to find anybody doing it--I mean to the uttermost as I did. What genius I had was for work!"
Quoted in The Green and Burning Tree, by Eleanor Cameron.
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