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"The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision."
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"Adult librarians are like lazy bakers: their patrons want a jelly doughnut, so they give them a jelly doughnut. Children's librarians are ambitious bakers: 'You like the jelly doughnut? I'll get you a jelly doughnut. But you should try my cruller, too. My cruller is gonna blow your mind, kid."

"The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not."

"Ask yourself how many people you have met who grumbled at a thing as incurable, and how many who attacked it as curable? How many people we have heard abuse the British elementary schools, as they would abuse the British climate? How few have we met who realized that British education can be altered, but British weather cannot?...For a thousand that regret compulsory education, where is the hundred, or the ten, or the one, who would repeal compulsory education? At the beginning of our epoch men talked with equal ease about Reform and Repeal. Now everybody talks about reform; nobody talks about repeal."

"While in Bombay, I began, on one hand, my study of Indian law and, on the other, my experiments in dietetics in which Virchand Gandhi, a friend, joined me. My brother, for his part was trying his best to get me briefs. The study of India law was a tedious business. The Civil Procedure Code I could in no way get on with. Not so however, with the Evidence Act. Virchand Gandhi was reading for the Solicitor's Examination and would tell me all sorts of stories about Barristers and Vakils."

"I believe that which you study is only matched in importance by the sincerity with which you approach it."
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"Christ would be a national advertiser today, I am sure, as He was a great advertiser in His own day. He thought of His life as business."

"Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance."

"What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage."

"Many a man who pays rent all his life owns his own home; and many a family has successfully saved for a home only to find itself at last with nothing but a house."

"Jesus picked up twelve men from the bottom ranks of business and forged them into an organisation that conquered the world."

"It takes a real storm in the average person's life to make him realize how much worrying he has done over the squalls."

"The essential element in personal magnetism is a consuming sincerity - an overwhelming faith in the importance of the work one has to do."

"Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity that was at hand."

"Not eating breakfast is the worst thing you can do, that's really the take-home message for teenage girls."
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