I never did a day's work in my life, it was all fun.
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
You cannot change how someone thinks, but you can give them a tool to use which will lead them to think differently.
I have far more respect for the person with a single idea who gets there than for the person with a thousand ideas who does nothing.
You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.
Wine is constant proof that God loves us and likes to see us happy.
If you can be the best, then why not try to be the best?
If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.
My first time I jacked off, I thought I'd invented it. I looked down at my sloppy handful of junk and thought, This is going to make me rich.
The way to fly is to go straight up . . . Such a machine (the helicopter) will never compete with the aeroplane, though it will have specialized uses, and in these it will surpass the aeroplane. The fact that you can land at your front door is the reason you can't carry heavy loads efficiently.
What man-made machine will ever achieve the complete perfection of even the goose's wing?
The truth of a theory can never be proven, for one never knows if future experience will contradict its conclusions.
There is no substitute for hard work.
Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.
The use of plant oil as fuel may seem insignificant today. But such products can in time become just as important as kerosene and these coal-tar-products of today.
I have been asked whether I would agree that the tragedy of the scientist is that he is able to bring about great advances in our knowledge, which mankind may then proceed to use for purposes of destruction. My answer is that this is not the tragedy of the scientist; it is the tragedy of mankind.
We cannot safely assume that other people's minds work on the same principles as our own. All too often, others with whom we come in contact do not reason as we reason, or do not value the things we value, or are not interested in what interests us.
There's nothing on it worthwhile, and we're not going to watch it in this household, and I don't want it in your intellectual diet.
Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently - they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.
To this day, no one has come up with a set of rules for originality. There aren't any.
When I'm old and dying, I plan to look back on my life and say 'wow, that was an adventure,' not 'wow, I sure felt safe.'
the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.
Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.
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