Walter B. Pitkin Quotes

• If you wish to begin life at forty, you must settle two large personal questions first of all. You must find work and play that call for no more energy than you can afford to spend on them. Then you must train your mind, eye and hand to the point of working and playing with ease, grace and precision.

  Walter B. Pitkin

  Eye, Hands, Play

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• You will get little or nothing from the printed page if you bring it nothing but your eye.

  Walter B. Pitkin

  Eye, Littles, Pages

  Walter B. Pitkin (1931). “How We Learn: A Book for Young People with Emphasis Upon the Art of Efficient Reading”

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• Life begins at age forty.

  Walter B. Pitkin

  Age, Forty

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• American business men must learn human nature to the point of accepting as necessary the Rabble Rouser of the Right. . . . To get fast action somebody must stir millions to genuine anger over conditions which are adversely affecting their lives.

  Walter B. Pitkin

  Life, Business, Learning

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