Richard R. Nelson quotes
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“You have to honor failure, because failure is just the negative space around success.”
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“While much of modern behavioral and social science treats individuals as autonomous agents, it is absolutely clear that the way we think and act is enormously influenced by the culture in which we live. It also is clear that the major elements of modern culture-science, technology, law, music, and religion-have evolved over time in a quite concrete sense of the term. Mesoudi makes these arguments very well and his book is a very good read.”
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“There may be more to learn from climbing the same mountain a hundred times than by climbing a hundred different mountains.”
-- Richard R. Nelson
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“Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.”
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“Learning (Shakespeare's plays) ...in school was a bit of a bore.”
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“Fewer people have successfully solo-circumnavigated the globe than have journeyed into space.”
Source : Abby Sunderland, Lynn Vincent (2011). “Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas”, p.14, Thomas Nelson Inc
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“Thus would I double my life's fading space;For he that runs it well, runs twice his race.”
Source : Abraham Cowley, T. Sprat (1721). “Poems and other pieces published by the late Lord Bishop of Rochester; with some account of his life and writings”, p.719
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“I'll get up there and I'll do my guitar solos in one of those space outfits.”
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