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Letter "I" » inventor
«An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.»
Author: Charles F. Kettering
| About:
Failure,
Motivation
| Keywords:
fails, failures, inventor, practice, shots, simply, succeeds, the inventor, treats
«Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.»
Author: E. F. Schumacher
(Economist, Founder)
| Keywords:
inventor, the inventor, tinker, tinkering, tinkers
«Blessed be the inventor of photography! I set him above even the inventor of chloroform! It has given more positive pleasure to poor suffering humanity than anything else that has ''cast up'' in my time or is like to -- this art by which even the ''poor'' can possess themselves of tolerable likenesses of their absent dear ones. And mustn't it be acting favorably on the morality of the country?»
Author: Jane Welsh Carlyle
| Keywords:
absent, inventor, likenesses, the inventor, this art, tolerable
«I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success... Such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.»
Author: Nikola Tesla
(Engineer, Inventor)
| About:
Emotion,
Inventions,
Success
| Keywords:
canned food, food for thought, go through, Human heart, inventor, The Brain, the inventor, The Thrills, thrill, unfolding
«These are bagpipes. I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant, asthmatic pig under his arm. Unfortunately, the man-made sound never equalled the purity of the sound achieved by the pig.»
Author: Alfred Hitchcock
(Film Director)
| About:
Inventions
| Keywords:
arm, asthmatic, bagpipe, bagpipes, carrying, indignant, inspired, inventor, pig, purity, the inventor, The Sound, unfortunately
«People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people.»
Author: Charles F. Kettering
| About:
People,
Thinking
| Keywords:
asks, inventor, screwball, screwballs, the inventor
«An inventor is simply a person who doesn't take his education too seriously. You see, from the time a person is six years old until he graduates form college he has to take three or four examinations a year. If he flunks once, he is out. But an inventor is almost always failing. He tries and fails maybe a thousand times. It he succeeds once then he's in. These two things are diametrically opposite. We often say that the biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee how to fail intelligently. We have to train him to experiment over and over and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.»
Author: Charles F. Kettering
| Keywords:
Almost always, diametrically, employee, Examinations, experiment, failing, flunk, flunked, flunks, graduates, graduating, hired, intelligently, inventor, keep on, newly, over and over, six times, succeeds, the inventor, thousand times, train
«The right of an inventor to his invention is no monopoly - in any other sense than a man's house is a monopoly»
Author: Daniel Webster
(Orator, Senator, Statesman)
| Keywords:
invention, inventor, monopolies, Monopoly, the inventor
«God bless the inventor of sleep, the cloak that covers all men's thoughts, the food that cures all hunger . . . the balancing weight that levels the shepherd with the king and the simple with the wise.»
Author: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
| Keywords:
balancing, bless, cloak, cloaked, cloaking, cloaks, covers, cure-all, cures, food for thought, hunger, inventor, king, levels, shepherd, shepherded, the inventor, the king, The Shepherd, weight
«We still have judgment here; that we but teachBloody instructions, which, being taught, returnTo plague the inventor.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
bloody, instructions, inventor, plague, Plague The, Return to, the inventor
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