"We learn to do by doing."

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Spencer W. Kimball

#Inspirational Quotes #Students Quotes

“Countries are poor not because their people are lazy; their people are 'lazy' because they are poor.”

Source : Ha-Joon Chang (2007). “Bad Samaritans: rich nations, poor policies, and the threat to the developing world”, Century
“Cullen is up there killing my children. He's killing everyone.”
“I have been to the world's end and back and now I know what I would put in my bottom drawer .I would put my sisters.”

Source : Kate Atkinson (2013). “Behind the Scenes at the Museum: A Novel”, p.295, Macmillan
“It seems important that the social value factor be more generally recognized as a powerful causal agent in its own right and something to be dealt with directly as such. No more critical task can be projected for the 1970s than that of seeking for civilized society a new, elevated set of value guidelines more suited to man's expanded numbers and new powers over nature, a frame of reference for value priorities that will act to secure and conserve our world instead of destroying it.”

Source : "Science and the Problem of Values". Book by Roger Wolcott Sperry, p. 119, 1972.
“But thankfully, my first album, Wide Screen, was sort of a critics darling - everyone raved about it, but no one bought it. They only manufactured 10,000 copies; I wasnt even in the running for failure!”
“An effective executive builds on strengths - their own strengths, the strengths of superiors, colleagues, subordinates, and on the strength of the situation.”
“We're the largest home improvement company today, and we did $30 billion last year, or less than 10 percent of the total amount of building materials sold in the U.S. So when people ask, how much runway left does Home Depot have, it's an awful lot.”
“A good book is like an unreachable itch. You just can't leave it alone.”

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