"More than ever, the world needs good engineers. However, the pool of talent is shrinking not growing."

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Source : "Segway inventor on future technology - and why videogames aren't it". Interview With Mark Harris, www.theguardian.com. July 22, 2009.

Dean Kamen

#Needs Quotes #Shrinking Quotes #World Quotes

“Some burn damp faggots, others may consume The entire combustible world in one small room As though dried straw, and if we turn about The bare chimney is gone black out Because the work had finished in that flare.”
“Continual improvement involves an appreciation that there is always a better way to do things irrespective of how much you have achieved or how comfortable you might be with where you currently are in life. As a young international rugby player I learnt a valuable lesson about sacrifice. The bottom line was the phrase 'long after the price is forgotten the quality remains'. Undertaking JOLT Challenge involves sacrifice but it is well worth it as you explore creative and innovative ways of challenging yourself for constant improvement in many areas of life.”
“If the imagination is shackled, and nothing is described but what we see, seldom will anything truly great be produced either in Painting or Poetry”

Source : Thomas Cole, Louis Legrand Noble (1853). “The Course of Empire: Voyage of Life, and Other Pictures of Thomas Cole, N.A., with Selections from His Letters and Miscellaneous Writings: Illustrative of His Life, Character, and Genius”, p.93
“But, on balance, we seized the marketplace. We've got a great infrastructure. And yes it's struggling in some areas because of some external factors and some internal factors.”
“And I want to say that my grandmother was one of the biggest inspirations in my life. She taught me how to be a real woman, to have strength and self-respect, and to never give those things away.”
“Much of life is about failure, whether we acknowledge it or not, and your destiny is profoundly shaped by how effectively you learn from and adapt to failure.”

Source : David Brooks (2011). “The Social Animal: A Story of How Success Happens”, p.344, Short Books
“There is a compulsion that is perhaps the heart of life's meanings, this marvelous mystery of blood ties that brings joy whenever a new family member comes on the scene.”
“Every place is a goldmine. You have only to give yourself time, sit in a teahouse watching the passers-by, stand in a corner of the market, go for a haircut. You pick up a thread â€“ a word, a meeting, a friend of a friend of someone you have just met â€“ and soon the most insipid, most insignificant place becomes a mirror of the world, a window on life, a theatre of humanity.”

Source : Tiziano Terzani (1997). “A fortune-teller told me”, HarperCollins

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