Inventor Quotes

• An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously.

  Charles Kettering

  Education, Technology, Intelligence

  Charles Franklin Kettering (1961). “Prophet of progress: selections from the speeches of Charles F. Kettering”

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• I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success ... Such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.

  Nikola Tesla

  Motivational, Success, Heart

  "Marconi and Tesla: Pioneers of Radio Communication" by Tim O'Shei, (p. 5), 2008.

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• An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.

  Charles Kettering

  Life, Motivational, Positive

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• Something I'll always remember - when I was a kid, I shook hands with Orville Wright. Forty years later, I shook hands with Neil Armstrong. The guy that invented the airplane and the guy that walked on the moon. In a lifetime, that's kinda wild when you think about it.

  Jonathan Winters

  Kids, Airplane, Thinking

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• You never lose a dream, it just incubates as a hobby.

  Larry Page

  Dream, Loss, Entrepreneur

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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  Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Harper's Monthly Magazine, September 1932.

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• Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Spring, Believe, Science

  Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.180, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Funny, Life

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Success, Smart

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.210, Courier Corporation

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• Let the future tell the truth and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.

  Nikola Tesla

  Change, Dream, Future

  "Tesla, Master of Lightning" by Margaret Cheney, Robert Uth, and Jim Glenn, (p. 73), 1999.

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• To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Science, Imagination Creativity

  "Behavior-Based Robotics". Book by Ronald C. Arkin, 1998.

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• How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.

  George Washington Carver

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• We want to encourage a world of creators, of inventors, of contributors. Because this world that we live in, this interactive world, is ours.

  Ayah Bdeir

  Creativity, Technology, World

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• Man is a shrewd inventor, and is ever taking the hint of a new machine from his own structure, adapting some secret of his own anatomy in iron, wood, and leather, to some required function in the work of the world.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Work, Men, Iron

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.240

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• That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Way, Invention, Inventing

  Ernest Hemingway, Carlos Baker (2003). “Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961”, p.407, Simon and Schuster

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• It is no monopoly in any other sense than as a man's own house is a monopoly. But a man's right to his own invention is a very different matter. It is no more a monopoly for him to possess that, than to possess his own homestead .

  Daniel Webster

  Men, House, Invention

  "The Writings and Speeches of Daniel Webster".

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• An apple a day keeps the doctor away.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Get Well Soon, Health, Italian

  James C. Humes, Benjamin Franklin (1995). “The wit and wisdom of Benjamin Franklin: a treasury of more than 900 quotations and anecdotes”, Harpercollins

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• Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Leadership, Bullying, Funny Inspirational

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• The journey is the reward

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.53, Prabhat Prakashan

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• The best way to get people to think outside the box is not to create the box in the first place.

  Martin Cooper

  Life, Thinking, Creating

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• Art is never finished, only abandoned.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Art, Mislead Us, Design

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• They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Happiness, Peace

  Benjamin Franklin, William-Temple Franklin (1818). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of (the Same), Continued to the Time of His Death by William Temple Franklin. - London, H. Colburn 1818”, p.270

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  Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.72, Prabhat Prakashan

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• There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Inspirational, Change, Success

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