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    99 percent of success is built on failure.

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    Action without intelligence is a form of insanity, but intelligence without action is the greatest form of stupidity in the world.

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    All human development, no matter what form it takes, must be outside the rules; otherwise we would never have anything new.

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    A man must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.

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    And there is the point exactly, we are all the time blaming difficulties on to something else. Our real trouble is that we are too soft to solve the problem.

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    An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.

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    An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously.

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    A problem well stated is a problem half-solved.

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    A research problem is not solved by apparatus; it is solved in a man's head.

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    Bankers regard research as most dangerous a thing that makes banking hazardous due to the rapid changes it brings about in industry.

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    Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

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    Don't be afraid to stumble. Any inventor will tell you that you don't follow a plan far before you strike a snag. If, out of 100 ideas you get one that works, it's enough.

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    Education is man's going forward from cocksure ignorance to thoughtful uncertainty.Where there is an open mind there will always be a frontier.

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    Every father should remember one day his son will follow his example, not his advice.

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    Every great improvement has come after repeated failures. Virtually nothing comes out right the first time. Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.

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    Every honest researcher I know admits he's just a professional amateur. He's doing whatever he's doing for the first time. That makes him an amateur. He has sense enough to know that he's going to have a lot of trouble, so that makes him a professional.

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    Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.

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    Failures, repeated failures, are sign-posts on the road to achievement. The only time you don't want to fail is the last time you try something (and it works).

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    Great steps in human progress are made by things that don't work the way philosophy thought they should. If things always worked the way they should, you could write the history of the world from now on. But they don't, and it is those deviations from the normal that make human progress.

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    here is a great difference between knowing a thing and understanding it. You can know a lot and not really understand anything.

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    High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.

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    I am not interested in the past. I am interested in the future, for that is where I expect to spend the rest of my life.

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    I could do nothing without my problems; they toughen my mind. In fact, I tell my assistants not to bring me their successes for they weaken me, but rather to bring me their problems, for they strengthen me.

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    I don't want men of experience working for me. The experienced man is always telling me why something can't be done. The fellow who has not had any experience is so dumb he doesn't know a thing can't be done - and he goes ahead and does it.

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    If a fellow wants to be nobody in the business world, let him neglect sending the mailman to somebody on his behalf.

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    If I have had any success, it's due to luck, but I notice the harder I work, the luckier I get.

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    If I want to stop a research program I can always do it by getting a few experts to sit in on the subject, because they know right away that it was a fool thing to try in the first place.

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    If we taught music the way we try to teach engineering, in an unbroken four year course, we could end up with all theory and no music. When we study music, we start to practice from the beginning, and we practice for the entire time.

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    If you're doing something the same way you have been doing it for ten years, the chances are you are doing it wrong.

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    If you want to kill any idea in the world, get a committee working on it.

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    In America we can say what we think, and even if we can't think, we can say it anyhow.

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    Industry prospers when it offers people articles which they want more than they want anything they now have. The fact is that people never buy what they need. They buy what they want.

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    Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.

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    I often say that research is a way of finding out what you are going to do when you can't keep on doing what you are doing now.

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    It doesn't matter if you try and try and try again, and fail. It does matter if you try and fail, and fail to try again.

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    I think that the greatest education in the world is the education which helps one to be able to do the right things at the time it has to be done.

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    It is easy to build a philosophy - it doesn't have to run

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    It is man's destiny to ponder on the riddle of existence and, as a byproduct of his wonderment, to create a new life on this earth.

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    It is not a disgrace to fail. Failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.

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    It is the 'follow through' that makes the great difference between ultimate success and failure, because it is so easy to stop.

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    I've never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.

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    Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.

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    Learn how to fail intelligently.

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    Logic is a system whereby one may go wrong with confidence.

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    Modern psychology teaches that experience is not merely the best teacher, but the only possible teacher.. There is no war between theory and practice. The most valuable experience demands both, and the theory should supplement the practice and not precede it.

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    My definition of an educated man is the fellow who knows the right thing to do at the time it has to be done. You can be sincere and still be stupid.

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    No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm.

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    Nothing ever built arose to touch the skies unless some man dreamed that it should, some man believed that it could, and some man willed that it must.

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    Obsolescence is a factor which says that the new thing I bring you is worth more than the unused value of the old thing.

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    One of the things we have to be thankful for is that we don't get as much government as we pay for.