Quotes by Inventors - Page 2

This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought.
Lin Yutang
The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.
Charles Franklin Kettering
Hope is like a road in the country there was never a road but when many people walk on it the road comes into existence.
Lin Yutang
I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible.
Henry Ford
Think you can think you can't either way you'll be right.
Henry Ford
It is easy to build a philosophy. It doesn't have to run.
Charles F. Kettering
Keep on going and the chances are that you will stumble on something perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down.
Charles F. Kettering
If we did all the things we are capable of doing we would literally astound ourselves.
Thomas Alva Edison
I am not discouraged because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
Thomas Alva Edison
Peace of mind is that mental condition in which you have accepted the worst.
Lin Yutang
Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them. They make the impossible happen.
Dr. Robert Jarvik
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Thomas A. Edison
There is time for everything.
Thomas A. Edison
Many of life's failures are men who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Thomas A. Edison
Why should the devil have all the good tunes?
Rowland Hill
The only things that distinguish us from the rest of the animals Madam is our habit of drinking when we are not thirsty and making love at any time.
Pierre Beaumarchais
The lucky fellow is the plucky fellow who has been burning midnight oil and taking defeat after defeat with a smile.
James B. Hill
Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough. Not only have I found that when I talk to the little flower or to the little peanut they will give up their secrets but I have found that when I silently commune with people they give up their secrets also - if you love them enough.
George Washington Carver
I hasten to laugh at everything for fear of being obliged to weep.
Pierre Beaumarchais
Anyone who stops learning is old whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
Henry Ford
Think sideways!
Edward de Bono
Instinct is untaught ability.
Alexander Bain
Great ideas originate in the muscles.
Thomas Edison
Hope is like a road in the country there was never a road but when many people walk on it the road comes into existence.
Lin Yutang
History is more or less bunk.
Henry Ford
Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.
Henry Ford
There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accom plished something.
Henry Ford
Peace of mind is that mental condition in which you have accepted the worst.
Lin Yutang
Without pleasure man would live like a fool and soon die.
Pierre de Beaumarchais
God is a verb not a noun.
R. Buckminster Fuller
There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
Henry Ford
Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
Thomas Alva Edison
Results! Why man I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
Thomas A. Edison
I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.
Thomas A. Edison
Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
George Washington Carver
One who fears failure limits his activities.
Henry Ford
Failure is only an opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
Henry Ford
We need to teach a highly educated person that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently for failing is one of the greatest arts of the world.
Charles F. Kettering
Besides the practical knowledge which defeat offers there are important personality profits to be taken. Defeat strips away false values and makes you realize what you really want. It stops you from chasing butterflies and puts you to work digging gold.
William M. Marston
They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has but I notice he usually blunders forward.
Thomas A. Edison
Virtually nothing comes out right the first time. Failures repeated failures are finger posts on the road to achievement. The only time you don't want to fail is the last time you try something.... One fails forward toward success.
Charles F. Kettering
Results? Why man I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
Thomas A. Edison
The most important thing about Spaceship Earth - an instruction book didn't come with it.
Buckminster Fuller
It is the greatest shot of adrenaline to be doing what you've wanted to do so badly. You almost feel like you could fly without the plane.
Charles Lindbergh
Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.
Thomas A. Edison
The most important fact about Spaceship Earth: an instruction book didn't come with it.
R. Buckminster Fuller
The best we can do is size up the chances calculate the risks involved estimate our ability to deal with them and then make our plans with confidence.
Henry Ford
A solemn funeral is inconceivable to the Chinese mind.
Lin Yutang
A myth is a fixed way of looking at the world which cannot be destroyed because looked at through the myth all evidence supports that myth.
Edward de Bono
Vilify! Vilify! Some of it will always stick.
Pierre Beaumarchais
Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.
Henry Ford
Imposing limitations on yourself is cowardly because it protects you from having to try and perhaps failing.
Vladimir Zworykin
Be courageous! ... I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has come out stronger and more prosperous. Be as brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward.
Thomas A. Edison
Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we have been ignorant of their value.
Buckminster Fuller
Some say compared to Bononcini That Mynheer Handel's but a ninny Others aver that he to Handel Is scarcely fit to hold a candle: Strange all this difference should be 'Twixt Tweedle-dum and Tweedle-dee!
John Byrom
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Arthur C. Clarke
The world hates change yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.
Charles F. Kettering
It is not the employer who pays wages - he only handles the money. It is the product that pays wages.
Henry Ford
The solid wealth of insurance companies and the success of those who organize gambling are some indication of the profits to be derived from the efficient use of chance.
Edward de Bono
Calumniate calumniate there will always be something which sticks.
Pierre Beaumarchais