"The price of training is always a certain trained incapacity: the more we know how to do something, the harder it is to learn to do it differently."

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Source : Abraham Kaplan (1973). “The conduct of inquiry”, p.29, Transaction Publishers

Abraham Kaplan

#Training Quotes #Incapacity Quotes #Certain Quotes

“It's easy .... it's a mind that is open to everything, yet attaches to nothing ... it's called freedom that's what it is, plain and simple!”
“The explanation requiring the fewest assumptions is most likely to be correct.”
“Journalism is organized gossip.”
“Sometimes, a person who likes your work and a person who donâ€™t will show up within milliseconds of each other to let you know how they feel. One does not need to cancel out the other, positively or negatively; if youâ€™re proud of the work, and you enjoyed the work, that is whatâ€™s important.”
“I can put my legs behind my head and sing 'Happy Birthday.' Because that's something that me and my friends used to do when we were in gymnastics class as kids, and I can still do it. I was doing it since I was 8 and 9. They used to call me Gumby. Very bendy.”
“The nicest thing about coaching is that one day you feel like you can play handball against a curb, and on other days you feel like you can fly to the moon.”
“People like scandals.”

Source : "Blanka Vlasic mixes mischief with medals as she aims for clean sweep". Interview with Anna Kessel, www.theguardian.com. August 1, 2010.
“We pardon infidelities, but we do not forget them.”

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