“Some of us learn from other people’s mistakes and the rest of us have to be other people.”
Zig Ziglar (1926–2012) American motivational speaker
“I have no use for people who have learned the limits of the possible.”
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English author 1948–2015Related quotes
“Using no way as way; Having no limitation as limitation.”
Bruce Lee book Tao of Jeet Kune Do
Variant: Using no way as way; Having no limitation as limitation.
Source: Tao of Jeet Kune Do
Source: The Warrior Within : The Philosophies of Bruce Lee (1996), p. 112, "To further emphasize this principle [of transcending all styles and forms], Lee placed Chinese characters around the circumference of his jeet kune do emblem that read"
Maximilien Robespierre (1758–1794) French revolutionary lawyer and politician
13 August 1793, Presenting his education plan to the National Convention
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“Well, I have tried to learn as much as possible from prior attempts.”
Elon Musk (1971) South African-born American entrepreneur
Conversation: Elon Musk on Wired Science (2007)
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States
This Is My Story (1937)
“I have a limited intelligence and I've used it in a particular direction.”
Richard Feynman book The Pleasure of Finding Things Out
" The Pleasure of Finding Things Out http://www.worldcat.org/wcpa/servlet/DCARead?standardNo=0738201081&standardNoType=1&excerpt=true", p. 2-3, transcript of BBC TV Horizon interview (1981): video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEwUwWh5Xs4&t=2m53s <br class="br">The Pleasure of Finding Things Out (1999) <br class="br">Context: I've always been rather very one-sided about the science, and when I was younger, I concentrated almost all my effort on it. I didn't have time to learn, and I didn't have much patience for what's called the humanities; even though in the university there were humanities that you had to take, I tried my best to avoid somehow to learn anything and to work on it. It's only afterwards, when I've gotten older and more relaxed that I've spread out a little bit — I've learned to draw, and I read a little bit, but I'm really still a very one-sided person and don't know a great deal. I have a limited intelligence and I've used it in a particular direction.
Ursula Goodenough (1943) American biologist
Science and Spirit interview (2004)
Context: A great many people say we have language and imagination to posit creators, interveners, and agencies that we can't actually prove. And yet some people experience God within them--these experiences are not drawn-up hypotheses. It's possible those of us who don't feel God within them have deficient brains that aren't capable of such experiences; or alternatively, the people who experience these things have brains that somehow create them. As near as I can tell, the jury is out on that. I may be a non-theist who doesn't include a god concept in my religious orientation because I have an incompetent brain, or perhaps theists have brains giving them inaccurate information.
Lev Leviev (1956) Soviet-born Israeli businessman, philanthropist and investor
Interview, Jewish Chronicle, 7 March 2008 http://thejc.com/home.aspx?AId58607&ATypeId1&searchtrue2&srchstrLev%20leviev&srchtxt1&srchhead1&srchauthor1&srchsandp1&scsrch0
John Stuart Mill (1806–1873) British philosopher and political economist
Attributed to John Stuart Mill in The Phrenological Journal and Science of Health, Vol. LXXXV (September 1887), p. 170
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