Chester Carlson quotes
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“You are successful the moment you start moving toward a worthwhile goal.”
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“Work outside of school hours was a necessity at an early age, and with such time as I had I turned toward interests of my own devising, making things, experimenting, and planning for the future. I had read of Thomas Alva Edison and other successful inventors, and the idea of making an invention appealed to me as one of the few available means to accomplish a change in one's economic status, while at the same time bringing to focus my interest in technical things and making it possible to make a contribution to society as well.”
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“What Bell is to the telephone—or, more aptly, what Eastman is to photography—Haloid could be to xerography.”
-- Chester Carlson -
“The need for a quick, satisfactory copying machine that could be used right in the office seemed very apparent to me-there seemed such a crying need for it-such a desirable thing if it could be obtained. So I set out to think of how one could be made.”
-- Chester Carlson -
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“What Bell is to the telephone—or, more aptly, what Eastman is to photography—Haloid could be to xerography.”
-- Chester Carlson
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“A successful film is a good film, and a non-successful film is a bad film. It's as simple as that.”
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“I don't care who scores the goals, I'm going to leave my human beingness on the field!”
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“One of the goals of education should be to teach that life is precious.”
Source : "Motivation and Personality". Book by Abraham Maslow, p. 255, 1954.
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