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Marie Curie Quotes

“Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.”

The Marie Curie's quote says we need to be more curious about ideas than people.

In our work, we must never be interested in people and make decisions based on people. When we have to work with someone, in addition to the fact that he must command respect, we must be interested in the potential and usefulness that person can give us.

If that person has good and valuable ideas, we need to secure that person. However, how that person relates to us or the work is still important. We do not go to work with people who are lazy, irrational, or disrespectful.

So let's surround ourselves with people with interesting and good ideas but still take into consideration how they relate to us.

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“I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy.”

“One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.”

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“All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.”

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