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The skill of being able to generate a wide range of questions and strategize about how to use them effectively is rarely, if ever, deliberately taught.
“Progress through cautious, well founded experiments.”
― My Life And Work
― My Life And Work
“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go into the desperate country, and have to console yourself with the bravery of minks and muskrats. A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind. There is no play in them, for this comes after work. But it is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things..”
― Civil Disobedience and Other Essays
― Civil Disobedience and Other Essays
“The present order often clumsy often stupid has this advantage over any other. It works. Doubtless it will merge by degrees into another order and it will also work. But not so much as to what it is, but as into what men will bring into it.”
― Henry Ford Autobiography: My Life and Work + 10 Bonus Biographies!
― Henry Ford Autobiography: My Life and Work + 10 Bonus Biographies!
“abilities gradually deteriorate in the absence of deliberate efforts to improve. So”
― Peak: Unleashing Your Inner Champion Through Revolutionary Methods for Skill Acquisition and Performance Enhancement in Work, Sports, and Life
― Peak: Unleashing Your Inner Champion Through Revolutionary Methods for Skill Acquisition and Performance Enhancement in Work, Sports, and Life
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