Learn to do common things uncommonly well; we must always keep in mind that anything that helps fill the dinner pail is valuable.

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"Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough. Not only have I found that when I talk to the little flower or to the little peanut they will give up their secrets, but I have found that when I silently commune with people, they give up their secrets also - if you love them enough."

- George Washington Carver

Love

"If you love it enough, anything will talk with you."

- George Washington Carver

Love

"I know that my Redeemer lives. Thank God I love humanity, complexion doesn’t interest me one single a bit."

- George Washington Carver

Love

"All flowers talk to me and so do hundreds of little living things in the woods. I learn what I know by watching and loving everything."

- George Washington Carver

Awareness

"If you listen carefully enough to anything, it will talk to you."

- George Washington Carver

Awareness

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"The effort you invest today is the pride you feel tomorrow."

- Unknown

Hard Work

"I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it."

- Thomas Jefferson

Hard Work

"The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work."

- Harry Golden

Hard Work

"A diamond is a piece of coal that stuck to the job."

- Michael Larsen

Hard Work

"A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work."

- Colin Powell

Hard Work