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What is the most overrated skill for an entrepreneur? The most overrated skill is skill. Luck is more important. The entrepreneur gets credit for being… — Ken Hendricks
I realized that my circumstances, while causing me despair and heartbreak, also held great possibility, if only I could see it. I knew that I… — Suzan-Lori Parks
A good mother loves fiercely but ultimately brings up her children to thrive without her. They must be the most important thing in her life,… — Erin Kelly
Do experimental work but keep in mind that other investigators in the same field will consider your discoveries as less than one fourth as important… — Charles Manning Child
Government is about coercion. Limiting government is the single most important instrument for guaranteeing liberty. We're working on a third generation which has little in… — Walter E. Williams
How to obtain freedom has been, and is, mankind's most important quest. — John Pugsley
Perhaps the single most important therapeutic credo that I have is that the unexamined life is not worth living. — Irvin D. Yalom
In my estimation it was obvious that Jansky had made a fundamental and very important discovery. Furthermore, he had exploited it to the limit of… — Grote Reber
[Science] is the literature of God written on the stars-the trees-the rocks-and more important because [of] its marked utilitarian character. — James A. Garfield
Doubtless many can recall certain books which have greatly influenced their lives, and in my own case one stands out especially-a translation of Hofmeister's epoch-making… — Douglas Houghton Campbell
At a given instant everything the surgeon knows suddenly becomes important to the solution of the problem. You can't do it an hour later, or… — John W. Kirklin
Frequently, I have been asked if an experiment I have planned is pure or applied science; to me it is more important to know if… — William Shockley
The basis of the discovery is imagination, careful reasoning and experimentation where the use of knowledge created by those who came before is an important… — Bengt I. Samuelsson
The most important discoveries will provide answers to questions that we do not yet know how to ask and will concern objects we have not… — John N. Bahcall
Elaborate apparatus plays an important part in the science of to-day, but I sometimes wonder if we are not inclined to forget that the most… — William Ian Beardmore Beveridge
This is an age of science. ... All important fields of activity from the breeding of bees to the administration of an empire, call for… — Wickliffe Rose
Over the last century, physicists have used light quanta, electrons, alpha particles, X-rays, gamma-rays, protons, neutrons and exotic sub-nuclear particles for this purpose [scattering experiments].… — Clifford Shull
Typical of the fundamental scientific problems whose solution should lead to important industrial consequences are, for example, the release of atomic energy, which experiment has… — Arthur Compton
Do not expect to be hailed as a hero when you make your great discovery. More likely you will be a ratbag-maybe failed by your… — Samuel Warren Carey
An announcement of [Christopher] Zeeman's lecture at Northwestern University in the spring of 1977 contains a quote describing catastrophe theory as the most important development… — Stephen Smale

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