There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation – veneer isn’t worth anything.
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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Fear of something is at the root of hate for others, and hate within will eventually destroy the hater.
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Education is understanding relationships.
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I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in.
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You can’t teach people anything. You can only draw out.
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Whatever you love opens its secrets to you.
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God gave them [the discoveries] to me; how can I sell them to someone else?
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Do what you can, with what you have and do it now!
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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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Learn to do common things uncommonly well; we must always keep in mind that anything that helps fill the dinner pail is valuable.
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The beating on the tail of the snake may stop his progress a little, but the more vital parts must be struck before his poisonous death-dealing venom will be wiped out.
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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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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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I know of nothing more inspiring than that of making discoveries for ones self.
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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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Education, in the broadest of truest sense, will make an individual seek to help all people, regardless of race, regardless of color, regardless of condition.
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