A Quote by Julius Lester

... the object of learning was not to build a better mousetrap but to ask a better question.

Julius Lester

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Julius Lester
American - Author
Born: January 27, 1939

If you build a better mousetrap, Nature will build a better mouse.

Lawrence Block

If you build a better mousetrap, you will catch better mice.

George Gobel

If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor, though he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Before you build a better mousetrap, it helps to know if there are any mice out there.

Mortimer Zuckerman

Money has no color. If you can build a better mousetrap, it won't matter whether you're black or white. People will buy it.

A. G. Gaston

Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.

Ronald Reagan

If you build a better mousetrap, regardless of your marketing budget, the world will beat its own path to your door.

Glenn Kelman

I think that hope, that ability to envision, to imagine a better way, and then to apply yourself to it, is the way to climb out of a hole, is the way to build a better life, is the way to build a better community and a better country.

Deval Patrick

You can't write a book and just expect it to sell itself, you know. We're not building that better mousetrap and waiting for the world to beat a path to our dear. You've got to build a market for your book.

Larry Winget

Especially girls, but any kids exposed to music programs and arts programs do much better on their tests. They have a better chance of going to college. They can focus better. You know, we're not just automatons learning how to work machines and do engineering and math and science. All of that's great, but you've got to build a whole person.

Bonnie Raitt

When a mentally retarded child is born, the religious question we often ask is, "Why does God let this happen?" The better question to pose is to ask, "What kind of community should we be so that mental retardation isn't a barrier to the enjoyment of one's full humanity?"

Harold S. Kushner

We have learned how to develop five-minute and even one-minute managers. But we would do better to ask ourselves what it takes to be an executive who helps build a better future.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

The biggest thing is to give it back. You want to leave the game in a better situation than you came in with it. That's really important to me, especially being an avid reader and just learning about how to build businesses, learning how to make the most of the business you're in, the ins and outs of the relationships that you build as well.

Andre Iguodala

We're simple-minded, the team at Hulu, which is, we think if we can obsess over quality and build a better mousetrap, that good things will happen. Users will adopt the service, advertisers will see great value in it, and that's what we're seeing.

Jason Kilar

And, indeed, I will at this point ask an idle question on my own account: which is better — cheap happiness or exalted sufferings? Well, which is better?

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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