"If you want to be a reference librarian, you must learn to overcome not only your shyness but also the shyness of others!"

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Source : S. R. Ranganathan (2006). “The Five Laws of Library Science”, Ess Ess Publications

S. R. Ranganathan

#Want Quotes #Overcoming Quotes #Shyness Quotes

“Science robs men of wisdom and usually converts them into phantom beings loaded up with facts.”
“The unreal is natural, so natural that it makes of unreality the most natural of anything natural. That is what America does, and that is what America is.”
“A city is a state - of mind, of taste, of opportunity. A city is a marketplace - where ideas are traded, opinions clash and eternal conflict may produce eternal truths.”
“He never stopped wanting to save the world.”
“She was chronologically in luck. She corresponded to necessity.”
“What a glorious legacy of faith, courage, and ingenuity those noble early Mormon pioneers have left for us to build upon. My admiration for them deepens the longer I live.”
“Galileo was no idiot. Only an idiot could believe that science requires martyrdom - that may be necessary in religion, but in time a scientific result will establish itself”

Source : "Mathematical Circles Squared : A Third Collection of Mathematical Stories and Anecdotes" by Howard Whitley Eves, (p. 125), 1972.
“In whatever sport of field of endeavor you are interested, you should do whatever is necessary to compliment your God-given talent with proper mental preparation so as to do "the best you can." The criterion should be to fully exploit your potential rather than to win at any cost. What more could anyone ever ask of you than to be the best you possibly can?”

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