"You have teenagers thinking they're going to make millions as NBA stars when that's not realistic for even 1 percent of them. Becoming a scientist or engineer is."

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Source : "Kamen: we need more geeks now" by Michaelle Delio, www.wired.com. March 25, 2002.

Dean Kamen

#Inspirational Quotes #Stars Quotes #Teenage Quotes

“I have a group of four or five friends that I consider my friends and best friends and people that I want to hold onto for the rest of my life.”
“I was compulsively overeating when I was eight years old.”
“The environment I was raised in, you had to, to survive.”
“Iâ€™m grasping with how you do something on a large scale with multiple operations and not have quality decrease,”
“Conflict and character are the heart of good fiction, and good mystery has both of those in spades.”
“I've found that my athletes run their best races after about 10 weeks of intense training.”

Source : Interview with Amby Burfoot, www.runnersworld.com. April 8, 2012.
“Sometimes when you mend a chain, the place where you fix it is strongest of all... Never was a chain that couldn't be broken. Sometimes its even a good idea.”
“You have the power to think differently about who you are. You have the ability to turn off the critical voice inside of you. That's not you. That's coming from the culture. That's coming from the outside of you. You've internalized the voice of your parents, your teachers, your friends.”

Source : Source: thematinggrounds.com

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