4 Five percent of the people think; ten percent of the people think they think; and the other eighty-five percent would rather die than think
5 Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
6 I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.
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7 The doctor of the future will give no medication, but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, diet and in the cause and prevention of disease.
12 Negative results are just what I want. They’re just as valuable to me as positive results. I can never find the thing that does the job best until I find the ones that don’t.
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13 To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
14 Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
17 To do much clear thinking a person must arrange for regular periods of solitude when they can concentrate and indulge the imagination without distraction.
18 We are like tenant farmers chopping down the fence around our house for fuel when we should be using Nature’s inexhaustible sources of energy–sun, wind and tide. I’d put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don’t have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that.
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19 Restlessness is discontent — and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man — and I will show you a failure.
20 Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.
21 I find out what the world needs. Then I go ahead and try to invent it.
22 I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.
23 Unfortunately, there seems to be far more opportunity out there than ability…. We should remember that good fortune often happens when opportunity meets with preparation.
24 The most necessary task of civilization is to teach people how to think. It should be the primary purpose of our public schools. The mind of a child is naturally active, it develops through exercise. Give a child plenty of exercise, for body and brain. The trouble with our way of educating is that it does not give elasticity to the mind. It casts the brain into a mold. It insists that the child must accept. It does not encourage original thought or reasoning, and it lays more stress on memory than observation.
25 Nature is what we know. We do not know the gods of religions. And nature is not kind, or merciful, or loving. If God made me — the fabled God of the three qualities of which I spoke: mercy, kindness, love — He also made the fish I catch and eat. And where do His mercy, kindness, and love for that fish come in? No; nature made us — nature did it all — not the gods of the religions.
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