If you listen carefully enough to anything, it will talk to you.
GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVERI wanted to know the name of every stone and flower and insect and bird and beast. I wanted to know where it got its color, where it got its life – but there was no one to tell me.
More George Washington Carver Quotes
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There are two ways, one is right; the other is wrong. If your work is only about right, then it is wrong.
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When our thoughts – which bring actions – are filled with hate against anyone, Negro or white, we are in a living hell. That is as real as hell will ever be.
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Nature is the greatest teacher and I learn from her best when others are asleep. In the still dark hours before sunrise God tells me of the plans I am to fulfill.
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We get closer to God as we get more intimately and understandingly acquainted with the things He has created. I know of nothing more inspiring than that of making discoveries for one’s self.
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It is not the style of clothes one wears, neither the kind of automobile one drives, nor the amount of money one has in the bank, that counts. These mean nothing. It is simply service that measures success.
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It is simply service that measures success.
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Learn to do the common things uncommonly well.
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Never a day passes but that I do myself the honor to commune with some of nature’s varied forms.
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Whatever you love opens its secrets to you.
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Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books, for they speak with the voice of God.
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Our creator is the same and never changes despite the names given Him by people here and in all parts of the world. Even if we gave Him no name at all, He would still be there, within us, waiting to give us good on this earth.
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My work is that of keeping every operation down (in size) so that the farmer and the man farthest down can get hold of it.
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One of the things that has helped me as much as any other is not how long I am going to live, but how much I can do while living.
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God gave them [the discoveries] to me; how can I sell them to someone else?
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Most people search high and wide for the key to success. If they only knew, the key to their dreams lies within.
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