"Every honest researcher I know admits he's just a professional amateur. He's doing whatever he's doing for the first time. That makes him an amateur. He has sense enough to know that he's going to have a lot of trouble, so that makes him a professional."

-- Charles Kettering

#Science Quotes #Firsts Quotes #Honest Quotes

“Im looking for leaders who are going to go to Washington for a season, not career politicians. People who understand that the strength of America comes from the private sector, not Washington, D.C.”
“Fishing can come as close to doing nothing as anything I can think of.”
“Everyone runs their own race.”
“Working is a big part of me and my life and I wasn't happy to stay at home - I'm a workaholic.”
“I wish I felt energetic and could paint all the time, because there are so many paintings I'd like to do.”
“I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.”
“A very little key will open a very heavy door.”

Source : Charles Dickens, Peter Preston (1998). “The Mystery of Edwin Drood and Other Stories”, p.358, Wordsworth Editions
“A functional media is as important to democratic freedom as voting.”

Source : "Indonesia's 'slow motion genocide'" by Jay Griffiths, www.theguardian.com. December 30, 2010.

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