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Read the following passage and answer the questions below it. Some words/phrases in the passage are printed in bold to help locate them while answering some of the questions.
Getting the facts and thinking that is fairly good five-word definition ofefficiency. Every worthwhile thing in the world was created by getting the factsand thinking. Thinking is mental manufacturing. Facts are the raw materials.And the products are ideas, methods and things. Every improvement in civilizationbegan in some man’s brain. It was a thought before it became a thing.
The man who thinks of better way to do some useful work he is the man whoought to have the medals and the honours. Some day, history will be rewritten. Itwill tell the story of the creative men, not the destructionists. It will tell the story of thinking
The progress of every nation depends upon the development of thinkers __men who have creative thoughts. It does not at all depend on great armies becausemilitarists have only destructive thoughts. An army is only an organisation ofmen who are trained to kill and destroy
In every nation, in every business form and even in every small shop, successdepends more up on ideas than upon any other are thing. Every businessmanshould have more or less thinking time every week. A business that is run only bymemory will soon be stuck fast in a rut. We must get facts and ideas from others,by reading and by conversation, and we should try to originate as many ideas aswe can.
All this seems self-evident when it is written down, but the last thing thatmost men do is to get the facts and think. Edison had this sign hung up on thewall of his workshop — “It is remarkable to what lengths people will go to avoidthought”. Some of us think, more of us think we think, and most of us dont even think of thinking. How many firms try to stimulate their employees to think__offer rewards for useful suggestions? Not one out of twenty
No firm can afford to pay attention only to the automaticality of its routine.Sooner or later, a thinking competitor will push ahead and leave it in the rear.Therecan be no progress without thought. The firm that wins is the one that gives themost time to getting the facts and thinking
Read the following passage and answer the questions below it. Some words/phrases in the passage are printed in bold to help locate them while answering some of the questions.
Getting the facts and thinking that is fairly good five-word definition ofefficiency. Every worthwhile thing in the world was created by getting the factsand thinking. Thinking is mental manufacturing. Facts are the raw materials.And the products are ideas, methods and things. Every improvement in civilizationbegan in some man’s brain. It was a thought before it became a thing.
The man who thinks of better way to do some useful work he is the man whoought to have the medals and the honours. Some day, history will be rewritten. Itwill tell the story of the creative men, not the destructionists. It will tell the story of thinking
The progress of every nation depends upon the development of thinkers __men who have creative thoughts. It does not at all depend on great armies becausemilitarists have only destructive thoughts. An army is only an organisation ofmen who are trained to kill and destroy
In every nation, in every business form and even in every small shop, successdepends more up on ideas than upon any other are thing. Every businessmanshould have more or less thinking time every week. A business that is run only bymemory will soon be stuck fast in a rut. We must get facts and ideas from others,by reading and by conversation, and we should try to originate as many ideas aswe can.
All this seems self-evident when it is written down, but the last thing thatmost men do is to get the facts and think. Edison had this sign hung up on thewall of his workshop — “It is remarkable to what lengths people will go to avoidthought”. Some of us think, more of us think we think, and most of us dont even think of thinking. How many firms try to stimulate their employees to think__offer rewards for useful suggestions? Not one out of twenty
No firm can afford to pay attention only to the automaticality of its routine.Sooner or later, a thinking competitor will push ahead and leave it in the rear.Therecan be no progress without thought. The firm that wins is the one that gives themost time to getting the facts and thinking
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