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I would argue that education, actual learning - it is hard work. It's very personal. Your parents don't teach you anything. Your teachers don't teach you anything. The government doesn't teach you anything. You read it. You don't understand it; you read it again. You break a pencil and read it again.
— Dean Kamen
Tags: learning, work, hard-work, education

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I do not want to waste any time. And if you are not working on important things, you are wasting time.
— Dean Kamen
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As a kid, I was less interested in the physical tinkering than thinking about what we would now call the physics, as opposed to the engineering.
— Dean Kamen
Tags: than, engineering, physics, thinking
If people ridicule you, look them in the eye and say, 'Yeah, I may have failed, but at least I tried,' and get on with it.
— Dean Kamen
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I've never regretted anything I've done, even the things that I've failed at. I've often regretted not trying something really big, because you'll never know.
— Dean Kamen
Tags: trying, know, never, you
I started realizing that I wasn't so dumb; rather, most people simply didn't know the answers to the questions that I was interested in-or they didn't care.
— Dean Kamen
Tags: dumb, know, care, people
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