"I had an immense advantage over many others dealing with the problem in as much as I had no fixed ideas derived from long-established practice to control and bias my mind, and did not suffer from the general belief that whatever is, is right."

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Source : Sir Henry Bessemer (1905). “Sir Henry Bessemer, F.R.S.: An autobiography”

Henry Bessemer

#Practice Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Long Quotes

“Feeling is the secret.”
“The poet will not be satisfied with recording, the poet will have to transform.”
“You could say that when you introduce humour to your work, you also step back a little from it. You create a distance”
“The argument that somehow we've got to get rid of minority scholarships so that we can have a free and fair America implies that we have a colorblind society where minorities are equal in their pursuit of funds to go to school.”
“I'm like an old dog, I hate to be run off from home”
“Mr. Watras asked me whether I was practicing, and I told him I was practicing my tissue basketball skills.”

Source : Jordan Sonnenblick (2010). “Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie”, p.82, Scholastic Inc.
“We do not attract what we want, But what we are.”
“One of the greatest evils is the foolishness of a good man. For the giving man to withhold helping someone in order to first assure personal fortification is not selfish, but to elude needless self-destruction; martyrdom is only practical when the thought is to die, else a good man faces the consequence of digging a hole from which he cannot escape, and truly helps no one in the long run.”

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