"Greatest thing in life is experience. Even..." - Quote by Henry Ford
Greatest thing in life is experience. Even mistakes have value.
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“Change is not always progress... A fever of newness has everywhere been confused with the spirit of progress.”
“A business which can bring itself to the point where it attracts the attention of money should be able to continue on its own feet without being financed.”
“A low wage business is always insecure.”
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“Now, there are two different attitudes towards learning from others. One is the dogmatic attitude of transplanting everything, whether or not it is suited to our conditions. This is no good. The other attitude is to use our heads and learn those things that suit our conditions, that is, to absorb whatever experience is useful to us. That is the attitude we should adopt.”
“What happens to you here is forever.”
“Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.”
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“People can't seem to get it through their heads that there is never any healing or closure. Ever. There is only a short pause before the next "horrifying" event. People forget there is such a thing as memory, and that when a wound "heals" it leaves a permanent scar that never goes away, but merely fades a little. What really ought to be said after one of these so-called tragedies is, "Let the scarring begin.”
“The harder I work the more I live.”
“I have sometimes sat alone here of an evening, listening, until I have made the echoes out to be the echoes of all the footsteps that are coming by and by into our lives. "Jerry, say that my answer was, 'RECALLED TO LIFE.”