“Do not talk about giftedness, inborn talents! One can name great men of all kinds who were very little gifted.13 They acquired greatness, became ‘geniuses’ (as we put it)…. They all possessed that seriousness of the efficient workman which first learns to construct the parts properly before it ventures to fashion a great whole; they allowed themselves time for it, because they took more pleasure in making the little, secondary things well than in the effect of a dazzling whole.”
