Trevor Baylis Quotes

• The key to success is to risk thinking unconventional thoughts. Convention is the enemy of progress.

  Trevor Baylis

  Success, Thinking, Keys

  "A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future". Book by Daniel H. Pink, 2005.

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• As long as you've got slightly more perception than the average wrapped loaf, you could invent something.

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  Average, Long, Perception

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• Invention isn't some impenetrable brand of magic; anyone can have a go.

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  Magic, Invention, Brands

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• But having had your bright, fresh, original idea, the really hard part is turning it into a successful product. That's what takes all the sweat.

  Trevor Baylis

  Successful, Sweat, Ideas

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• Visionaries and dreamers have always been dusted with a little oddity.

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  Oddities, Dreamer, Visionaries

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• All inventors, they say, are a little mad. I reckon that only completely sane people are willing to admit they are slightly crazy.

  Trevor Baylis

  Crazy, People, Mad

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• A good idea turns every cog in your mind, making you scared of bed in case the whole machine grinds to a halt.

  Trevor Baylis

  Ideas, Mind, Machines

  "The Riddle: Where Ideas Come From and How to Have Better Ones". Book by Andrew Razeghi, 2008.

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• That was the Alka-Seltzer moment, the moment when the tablet hits the water and begins to fizz.

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  Inspiration, Water, Tablets

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• Do what gives you a buzz.

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  Giving, Purpose, Buzz

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• I'd work eighteen-hour stretches and fall asleep in my clothes. Then I'd wake up in the middle of the night, brew a pot of tea, and start work again. I was tired, but work had become pure enjoyment.

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  Fall, Tired, Night

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• But there is only one person I blame for getting shafted, and that's myself. I went into the deal which I thought would secure the future of Orange Aids with culpable impetuosity. I had been used to doing business on a handshake and my work of honour, and I made the error of actually believing what the men in the pin-striped suits told me.

  Trevor Baylis

  Business, Believe, Men

  "Two Speed World: The Impact of Explosive and Gradual Change". Book by Terry Lloyd, 2010.

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• Ideas for gadgets for the disabled were coming into my head so fast they seemed to be arriving from somewhere outside of me, beamed down by an unremitting force. I had little control over them, or their flow. I would wake up in the middle of the night. A blinding flash of an idea would rouse me from my bed and I'd rush down to my workshop to have a go at it before the inspiration dimmed.

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  Inspiration, Night, Ideas

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• I was on automatic pilot; ideas for gadgets kept coming, fed by a force of energy flowing through me and around me.

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  Ideas, Energy, Gadgets

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• The notion that inventors are anorak-wearing crackpots with glasses held together with Sellotape is beguiling but wrong.

  Trevor Baylis

  Glasses, Together, Madness

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