Quote#Self
In selecting human assistants such superficialities as education, as…
Quote byHarrington Emerson · 1853–1931
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: The twelve principles of efficiency (1912), p. 176; cited in Münsterberg (113; 52).
English (original)
In selecting human assistants such superficialities as education, as physical strength, even antecedent morality, are not as important as the inner attitudes, proclivities, character, which after all determine the man or woman.
— Harrington Emerson
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