The first requisite of success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem without growing weary.
Not only will atomic power be released, but someday we will harness the rise and fall of the tides and imprison the rays of the sun.
When down in the mouth, remember Jonah. He came out all right.
During all those years of experimentation and research, I never once made a discovery. All my work was deductive, and the results I achieved were those of invention, pure and simple. I would construct a theory and work on its lines until I found it was untenable. Then it would be discarded at once and another theory evolved. This was the only possible way for me to work out the problem.
Genius defined: of inspiration 1% percent, of perspiration, 99%.
Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.
Great ideas originate in the muscles.
When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.
To have a great idea, have a lot of them.
There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.
It is very beautiful over there. (last words)
Seeming to do is not doing.
My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant - but misdirected - ideas of others.
I am long on ideas, but short on time. I expect to live to be only about a hundred.
Smoking too much makes me nervous. Must lasso my natural tendency to acquire such habits. Holding heavy cigar constantly in my mouth has deformed my upper lip, it has a sort of Havana curl.
Results? Why, man, I have gotten lots of results! If I find 10,000 ways something won't work, I haven't failed. I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is often a step forward.
Genius is 1 percent inspiration, 99 percent perspiration.
It has been just so in all my inventions. The first step is an intuition-and comes with a burst, then difficulties arise. This thing that gives out and then that-"Bugs"as such little faults and difficulties are called show themselves and months of anxious watching, study and labor are requisite before commercial success-or failure-is certainly reached.
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. As a result, a genius is often a talented person who has simply done all of his homework.
Genius? Nothing! Sticking to it is the genius! ... I've failed my way to success.
There is far more opportunity than there is ability.
To my mind the old masters are not art; their value is in their scarcity.
His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.
I have not failed 700 times. I have not failed once. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.
For faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction - faith in fiction is a damnable false hope.
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