Do not wait; the time will never be ‘just right.’ Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command.
The inventor is a man who looks around upon the world and is not contented with things as they are. He wants to improve whatever he sees.
Your success depends upon your ability to preserve energy and focus your attention on the essentials.
Preparation is the key to success, and this preparation must be directed by definiteness of purpose and controlled by a desire to reach a predetermined goal.
It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation perseveres to the end, and finally triumphs.
Don't keep forever on the public road. Leave the beaten track occasionally and dive into the woods. You will be certain to find something you have never seen before.
Leave the beaten track behind occasionally and dive into the woods. Every time you do so you will be certain to find something that you have never seen before.
What this power is I cannot say all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when you are in that state of mind in which you know exactly what you want and are fully determined not to quit until you get it.
A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with—a man is what he makes of himself.
When one door closes, another opens but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.
What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.
When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.
Educate the masses, elevate their standard of intelligence, and you will certainly have a successful nation.
When one door closes, another door opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.
Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.
I have heard articulate speech produced by sunlight! I have heard a ray of the sun laugh and cough and sing!
The most successful inventor in the end is the one who is best able to anticipate, and to embody in a practical shape, the needs and desires of the people.
The inventor looks upon the world and is not contented with things as they are. He wants to improve whatever he sees.
Leave the beaten track occasionally and dive into the woods. Every time you do so you will be certain to find something you have never seen before.
The day will come when the man at the telephone will be able to see the distant person to whom he is speaking.
Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work in hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.
