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.
GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVERSince new developments are the products of a creative mind, we must therefore stimulate and encourage that type of mind in every way possible.
More George Washington Carver Quotes
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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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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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I know that my Redeemer lives. Thank God I love humanity, complexion doesn’t interest me one single a bit.
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Where there is no vision, there is no hope.
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Education is understanding relationships.
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How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.
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Look about you. Take hold of the things that are here. Let them talk to you. You learn to talk to them.
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When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.
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I 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.
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When I touch that flower, I am not merely touching that flower. I am touching infinity. That little flower existed long before there were human beings on this earth. It will continue to exist for thousands, yes, millions of years to come.
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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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Learn to do the common things uncommonly well.
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No individual has any right to come into the world and go out of it without leaving behind him distinct and legitimate reasons for having passed through it.
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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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My purpose alone must be God’s purpose.
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