
“[…]schools reward people who study more and more about less and less.”
Rich Dad Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money-That the Poor and the Middle Class Do Not!
“[…]schools reward people who study more and more about less and less.”
Rich Dad Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money-That the Poor and the Middle Class Do Not!
Source: Social Amnesia: A Critique of Conformist Psychology from Adler to Laing (1975), p. 59
“Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.”
Response to a reporter seeking an interview during a vacation with her husband in Brittany, who mistaking her for a housekeeper, asked her if there was anything confidential she could recount, as quoted in Living Adventures in Science (1972), by Henry Thomas and Dana Lee Thomas
This is stated to be a declaration she often made to reporters, in Madame Curie : A Biography (1937) by Eve Curie Labouisse, as translated by Vincent Sheean, p. 222
Variant: In science, we must be interested in things, not in persons.
“Most everything you think you know about me is nothing more than memories.”
Source: A Wild Sheep Chase
“the less you had, the more careful you had to be about everything you did have.”
Source: Clockwork Angel
“Worry less about what other people think about you, and more about what you think about them.”