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• I've always said that the better off you are, the more responsibility you have for helping others. Just as I think it's important to run companies well, with a close eye to the bottom line, I think you have to use your entrepreneurial experience to make corporate philanthropy effective.

  Carlos Slim

  Running, Eye, Responsibility

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• The physicist's greatest tool is his wastebasket.

  Albert Einstein

  Science, Engineering, Tools

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• Research ! A mere excuse for idleness; it has never achieved, and will never achieve any results of the slightest value.

  Benjamin Jowett

  Science, Achievement, Research

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• The real measure of success is the number of experiments that can be crowded into 24 hours.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Success, Real, Numbers

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• It is as if evolution has built a safety device in our nervous system that allows us to experience full happiness only when we are living at 100%-when we are fully using the physical and mental equipment we have been given.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Happiness, Business, Safety

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2004). “Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning”, p.24, Penguin

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• Develop wisdom in sales by reflecting on your experience, and learning everything you can from every call.

  Brian Tracy

  Reflecting, Learning Everything, Experience And Learning

  Brian Tracy (1998). “Successful Selling”, p.23, Jaico Publishing House

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• Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult.

  Hippocrates

  Inspirational, Life, Art

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 384, 1895.

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• If I had thought about it, I wouldn't have done the experiment. The literature was full of examples that said you can't do this.

  Spencer Silver

  Failure, Silly, Creativity

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• Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do, than what one can do.

  Lin Yutang

  Inspirational, Volleyball, Wisdom

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• The rich get richer. Not only because they have surpluses with which to invest, but because of the overriding emotional release they experience from having wealth.

  Stuart Wilde

  Optimistic, Emotional, Investing

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• Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition into which he has been born - the beneficiary inasmuch as language gives access to the accumulated records of other people's experience, the victim in so far as it confirms him in the belief that reduced awareness is the only awareness and as it bedevils his sense of reality, so that he is all too apt to take his concepts for data, his words for actual things.

  Aldous Huxley

  Communication, Humility, Reality

  "The Doors of Perception". Book by Aldous Huxley (p. 22-24), 1954.

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• My decision to begin research in radio astronomy was influenced both by my wartime experience with electronics and antennas and by one of my teachers, Jack Ratcliffe, who had given an excellent course on electromagnetic theory during my final undergraduate year.

  Antony Hewish

  Teacher, War, Science

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• The link between my experience as an entrepreneur and that of a politician is all in one word: freedom.

  Silvio Berlusconi

  Success, Entrepreneur, Links

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• There are no failures - just experiences and your reactions to them

  Tom Krause

  Inspirational, Positive, Cheer

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• We are not on this earth to accumulate victories, things, and experiences, but to be whittled and sandpapered until what's left is who we truly are.

  Arianna Huffington

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

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• The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication.

  Cyril Connolly

  Life, Beautiful, Art

  "The Unquiet Grave" by Cyril Connolly, (Part 2), 1951.

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• Gardening is a labour full of tranquility and satisfaction; natural and instructive, and as such contributes to the most serious contemplation, experience, health and longevity.

  John Evelyn

  Education, Learning, Knowledge

  John Evelyn (1729). “Silva: or, a discourse of forest-trees, and the propagation of timber in His Majesty's dominions”

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• Ere long intelligence-transmitted without wires-will throb through the earth like a pulse through a living organism. The wonder is that, with the present state of knowledge and the experiences gained, no attempt is being made to disturb the electrostatic or magnetic condition of the earth, and transmit, if nothing else, intelligence.

  Nikola Tesla

  Knowledge, Science, Intelligent

  Nikola Tesla (2016). “Experiments with Alternate Currents of High Potential and High Frequency: [Illustrated & Biography Added]”, p.115, eKitap Projesi

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• As far as the customer is concerned, the interface is the product.

  Jef Raskin

  Educational, Design, Usability

  Jef Raskin (2000). “The Humane Interface: New Directions for Designing Interactive Systems”, p.5, Addison-Wesley Professional

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• Gardening is a humbling experience.

  Martha Stewart

  Garden, Essentials, Humbling

  Martha Stewart (1991). “Martha Stewart's gardening, month by month”, Clarkson Potter

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• It is within the experience of everyone that when pleasure and pain reach a certain intensity they are indistinguishable.

  Arnold Bennett

  Pain, Crazy, Mad

  Arnold Bennett (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of Arnold Bennett (Illustrated)”, p.3065, Delphi Classics

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• Don't let complexity stop you. Be activists. Take on the big inequities. It will be one of the great experiences of your lives.

  Bill Gates

  Poverty, Bigs, Activist

  "Column: Great lines from commencement speeches of the past" by Randy Blaser, www.chicagotribune.com. May 18, 2017.

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• It is always self-defeating to pretend to the style of a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your own experience in history.

  Renata Adler

  Inspirational, Fashion, Self

  Renata Adler (1969). “A year in the dark: journal of a film critic, 1968-69”

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• An experience teaches only the good observer; but far from seeking a lesson in it, everyone looks for an argument in experience, and everyone interprets the conclusion in his own way.

  Andre Gide

  Understanding, Looks, Lessons

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• What the public expects to encounter in an actress passed 70 is the sum of her experience, not her beauty.

  Leslie Caron

  Encounters, Her Beauty, Actresses

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