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The most essential prerequisite to understanding is to be able to admit when you don\'t understand something
The most essential prerequisite to understanding is to be able to admit when you don't understand something
 Richard Saul Wurman

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Being self-made is a state of mind, and once you put that mentality to work, your success will come.
 Dave East
A lot of people change for good. Some people just fall off. Just trying to progress in anything, no matter what you're doing, I feel like any progression you make... some people aren't gonna be around you that were around you.
 Dave East
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
Don't settle in the land of barely enough. That is where you are, it is not who you are. That's your location, it's not your identity. No matter what it looks like, have an abundant mentality.
Everything in your life, every experience, every relationship is a mirror of the mental pattern that is going on inside of you.

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Physicist Isador Isaac Rabi, who won a Nobel Prize for inventing a technique that permitted scientists to probe the structure of atoms and molecules in the 1930s, attributed his success to the way his mother used to greet him when he came home from school each day. "Did you ask any good questions today, Isaac?" she would say.
 Richard Saul Wurman
People can be motivated to creativity simply with the instruction to "be creative.
 Richard Saul Wurman
We do not think in a linear, sequential way, yet every body of information that is given to us is given to us in a linear manner ... we are taught to communicate in a way that is actually constricting our ability to think.
 Richard Saul Wurman
Accept ignorance; pay more attention to the question than the answer; never be afraid to go in the opposite direction.
 Richard Saul Wurman