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“The measure of progress of civilization is the progress of the people.”
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“Life is a mountain of solvable problems and I enjoy that.”
Source : "James Dyson on Using Failure to Drive Success". Interview with Nadia Goodman, www.entrepreneur.com. November 5, 2012.
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“Even when there is no longer hope for the body, there is always hope for the soul.”
Source : Jerome Groopman (2003). “The Anatomy of Hope: How People Prevail in the Face of Illness”, p.6, Random House
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“You're 60 But honestly it doesn't show Mind you, you reached the age of consent About 50,000 consents ago!”
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“Luck is a crossroad where preparation and opportunity meet”
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“If you press-mold a pot or if you slab-build a pot, the work has got to take much, much, much longer than if you work on the wheel. And I to this day have the ideal that I want my work to be not too expensive, so that if people buy it and break it, it's not going to be the end of the world. I'm not interested in having things in museums, although some of our work has ended up there, but that's not what I'm striving for.”
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“You are not your bank account, our your ambitiousness. You're not the cold clay lump with a big belly you leave behind when you die. You're not your collection of walking personality disorders. You are spirit, you are love.”
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“If people were possessed by reason, running marathons would never work. But we are not creatures of reason. We are creatures of passion.”