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You will constantly be surprised to find how little you really know about your work, and how much more somebody else knows about it than you do.
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The point is, that we want to be constantly on the lookout for ways of improving whatever work we are engaged in, whether that work be milking cows or doing something else.
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There is an indescribable something about work with the hands that tends to develop a student's mind.
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No one gets much out of life who does not make his education a real, vital part of himself.
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What you imagine, you will think, and what you think, you will become.
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The more experience we gain, the more progress we can make.
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Man can only receive what he sees himself receiving.
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No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.
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Man is a thought-being, and his life and character are determined by the thoughts in which he habitually dwells.
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Concentration is an aid to the doing of something; it is not the doing of something in itself.
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Nothing comes unbidden; where the shadow is, there also is the substance.
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I try to scare myself at least once a day.
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The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.
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Desire is possibility seeking expression, or function seeking performance.