Two per cent. is genius, and ninety-eight per cent. is hard work.
It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.
I know this world is ruled by Infinite Intelligence. It required Infinite Intelligence to create it and it requires Infinite Intelligence to keep it on its course ... It is mathematical in its precision.
The radio craze will die out in time.
What a man's mind can create, man's character can control.
Focus on how the end-user customers perceive the impact of your innovation - rather than on how you, the innovators, perceive it.
Every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward
If I could solve all the problems myself, I would.
They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has, but I notice he usually blunders forward.
During all those years of experimentation and research, I never once made a discovery. All my work was deductive, and the results I achieved were those of invention, pure and simple. I would construct a theory and work on its lines until I found it was untenable. Then it would be discarded at once and another theory evolved. This was the only possible way for me to work out the problem.
When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.
Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.
Genius defined: of inspiration 1% percent, of perspiration, 99%.
I try not to invent things that people don't need.
The only thing I use my body for is to carry my brain around.
Not only will atomic power be released, but someday we will harness the rise and fall of the tides and imprison the rays of the sun.
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.
When down in the mouth, remember Jonah. He came out all right.
Seeming to do is not doing.
My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant - but misdirected - ideas of others.
It has been just so in all my inventions. The first step is an intuition-and comes with a burst, then difficulties arise. This thing that gives out and then that-"Bugs"as such little faults and difficulties are called show themselves and months of anxious watching, study and labor are requisite before commercial success-or failure-is certainly reached.
It is very beautiful over there. (last words)
I am long on ideas, but short on time. I expect to live to be only about a hundred.
Smoking too much makes me nervous. Must lasso my natural tendency to acquire such habits. Holding heavy cigar constantly in my mouth has deformed my upper lip, it has a sort of Havana curl.
Results? Why, man, I have gotten lots of results! If I find 10,000 ways something won't work, I haven't failed. I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is often a step forward.
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