"When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world." ~ George Washington Carver
With ingenuity, you can transform the common into the uncommon.
A friend of mine designed Thank You notes personalized with photographs of the people she thanked and created a priceless gift, born of love and ingenuity. Another returned a borrowed dish filled with yummy homemade chocolate bars with the recipe taped to the cover.
By putting a personal tweak to a seemingly common thing, you can command the attention of the world.
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AN INVENTOR KNOWS HOW TO BORROW...
“Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
We learn from others, we borrow from what came before us. We all create and invent, whether it is a tasty recipe, a soaring skyscraper, or a business strategy to streamline operations. New ideas, built on old ones, are refined and personalized. Ingenuity comes with the limitless imagination.
As Thomas Alva Edison once said, “Inventors must be poets so that they may have imagination.”
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100%...
"An average person puts only 25% of their energy and ability into their work. The world takes its hat off to those who put more than 50% capacity in, and stands on its head to those few and far between souls who devote 100%." ~ Andrew Carnegie
My father always said, if you are going to do something, "why not do it 100%."
Why not, indeed…
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