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Last updated on December 21, 2024.
Walter B. Pitkin

Walter Boughton Pitkin was an American author and university professor. He taught at Columbia University for 38 years, and he authored more than 30 books, including the 1932 best-selling book, Life Begins at Forty.

February 6, 1878 - January 25, 1953
You will get little or nothing from the printed page if you bring it nothing but your eye. — © Walter B. Pitkin
You will get little or nothing from the printed page if you bring it nothing but your eye.
Life begins at age forty.
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.
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.
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