Anti-social behavior is a trait of intelligence in a world full of conformists.
Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.
It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.
If you haven't found it yet, keep looking.
We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.
The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.
The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.
Having a vision for what you want is not enough...Vision without execution is hallucination
The purpose of our lives is to add value to the people of this generation and those that follow.
Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor.
Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.
O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention.
It is only the unimaginative who ever invents. The true artist is known by the use he makes of what he annexes.
The test of an invention is the power of an inventor to push it through in the face of staunch-not opposition, but indifference-in society.
The great creators - the thinkers, the artists, the scientists, the inventors - stood alone against the men of their time. Every great new thought was opposed. Every great new invention was denounced. The first motor was considered foolish. The airplane was considered impossible... But the men of unborrowed vision went ahead. They fought, they suffered and they paid. But they won.
We have all heard of Young America. He is the most current youth of the age. Some think him conceited, and arrogant; but has he not reason to entertain a rather extensive opinion of himself? Is he not the inventor and owner of the present, and sole hope of the future?
People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people.
If you build a better mousetrap, you will catch better mice.
The Unexpected stalks a farm in big boots like a vagrant bent on havoc. Not every farmer is an inventor, but the good ones have the seeds of invention within them. Economy and efficiency move their relentless tinkering and yet the real motive often seems to be aesthetic. The mind that first designed a cutter bar is not far different from a mind that can take the intractable steel of an outsized sickle blade and make it hum in the end. The question is how to reduce the simplicity that constitutes a problem ("It's simple; it's broke.") to the greater simplicity that constitutes a solution.
The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall.
There are many points in the history of an invention which the inventor himself is apt to overlook as trifling, but in which posterity never fail to take a deep interest. The progress of the human mind is never traced with such a lively interest as through the steps by which it perfects a great invention; and there is certainly no invention respecting which this minute information will be more eagerly sought after, than in the case of the steam-engine.
If it weren't for Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of television, we'd still be eating frozen radio dinners.
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