The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary. |
The first step is an intuition and it comes with a burst, then difficulties arise - this thing gives out and then that - 'Bugs' - as such little faults and difficulties are called - show themselves, and months of intense watching, study and labor ar |
The ideas I use are mostly the ideas of people who don't develop them |
The perils of overwork are slight compared with the dangers of inactivity |
The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work. |
The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense. |
The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense. |
The value of an idea lies in the using of it. |
There is always a better way. |
There is no substitute for hard work. |
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. |
There's a way to do it better - find it. |
They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has, but I notice he usually blunders forward. |
Time goes by so fast, people go in and out of your life. You must never miss the opportunity to tell these people how much they mean to you. |
To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. |