You can’t teach people anything. You can only draw out.
GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVEROne 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.
More George Washington Carver Quotes
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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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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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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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I know of nothing more inspiring than that of making discoveries for ones self.
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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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Young people, I want to beg of you always keep your eyes open to what Mother Nature has to teach you. By so doing you will learn many valuable things every day of your life.
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My purpose alone must be God’s purpose.
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It is simply service that measures success.
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God gave them [the discoveries] to me; how can I sell them to someone else?
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Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
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He who puts a product upon the market as it demands, controls that market, regardless of color. It is simply a survival of the fittest.
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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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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 common things uncommonly well; we must always keep in mind that anything that helps fill the dinner pail is valuable.
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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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