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cc499f6 The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense. common-sense enterprise hard-work inspirational perseverance persistence success thomas-edison Thomas A. Edison
07efdb7 When we set about accounting for a Napoleon or a Shakespeare or a Raphael or a Wagner or an Edison or other extraordinary person, we understand that the measure of his talent will not explain the whole result, nor even the largest part of it; no, it is the atmosphere in which the talent was cradled that explains; it is the training it received while it grew, the nurture it got from reading, study, example, the encouragement it gathered from self-recognition and recognition from the outside at each stage of its development: when we know all these details, then we know why the man was ready when his opportunity came. extraordinary genius learning napoleon-bonaparte nurture raphael richard-wagner study talent thomas-edison training william-shakespeare Mark Twain