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“The world, the future, is now within you as your past, as experience, skill in technique, and the rich, everlasting mystery is found to be childish you that, at the time, you made no effort to possess.”

World Made Past Found Effort Rich Mystery Skills Technique Within You Our Past Everlasting Your Past

Book:This Business of Living

Source: This Business of Living

“The evidence is unequivocal, there's a great deal more luck than skill in people getting very rich.”

People Deals Rich Skills Evidence Luck Unequivocal

Author:Daniel Kahneman

“Dr. [Paula] Menyuk and her co-workers [at Boston University's School of Education] found that parents who supplied babies with a steady stream of information were not necessarily helpful. Rather, early, rich language skills were more likely to develop when parents provided lots of opportunities for their infants and toddlers to "talk" and when parents listened and responded to the babies' communications.”

“It's easy to get laid when you're rich and famous. When you're broke and unknown, it takes skill.”

Easy Rich Skills Broke Easy To Get Getting Laid

Author:Kevin Bacon

“I hate this shallow Americanism which hopes to get rich by credit, to get knowledge by raps on midnight tables, to learn the economy of the mind by phrenology, or skill without study, or mastery without apprenticeship.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)

“I had become a kind of information magpie, gathering to myself all manner of shiny scraps of fact and hokum and books and art-history and politics and music and film, and developing, too, a certain skill in manipulating and arranging these pitiful shards so that they glittered and caught the light. Fool's gold, or priceless nuggets mined from my singular childhood's rich bohemian seam? I leave it to others to decide.”

Kind Art Book Facts Light Film Certain Rich Childhood Information Fool Skills Gold Caught Developing Gathering Priceless Scrap Pitiful Art History Arranging Bohemian Nuggets Magpies

Book:The Moor's last sigh

Source: The Moor's last sigh

“by and large the poor have the same impulses as the rich, with only less opportunity or skill to implement them”

Opportunity Poor Rich Skills Impulse

Book:The Lessons of History

Source: The Lessons of History