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Necessity is not the mother of invention. Knowledge and experiment are its parents. It sometimes happens that successful search is made for unknown materials to fill well-recognized and predetermined requirements. It more often happens that the acquirement of knowledge of the previously unknown properties of a material suggests its trial for some new use. These facts strongly indicate the value of knowledge of properties of materials and indicate a way for research.

Nervous energy is the ammunition we take into any mental battle. If you don't have enough of it, your concentration will fade. If you have a surplus, the results will explode.

Never be discouraged from being an activist because people tell you that you'll not succeed. You have already succeeded if you're out there representing truth or justice or compassion or fairness or love.

Never depend on single income. Make investment to create a second source.

Never give up! Failure and rejection are only the first step to succeeding.

Never give up on something that you can't go a day without thinking about.

Never leave the site of a strong idea without doing something to execute around it.

Never let up. The more you can win by, the more doubts you put in the other players' minds the next time out.

Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people - your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.

Never miss a moment to encourage someone you work with.

Never play the Devil's Advocate. Your words could be the difference between success and failure in someone else.

Never start a business just to 'make money'. Start a business to make a difference.

Never turn down a job because you think it's too small, you don't know where it can lead.

Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.

Never under estimate the Power of the Mind. Persist in creating new thoughts to prevent falling back into negative patterns. It is an ongoing struggle and you have to commit to winning if you are to succeed.

Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.

Next to meditation itself, I really can't think of anything more important than the development of your career.

Nietzsche was the one who did the job for me. At a certain moment in his life, the idea came to him of what he called "the love of your fate." Whatever your fate is, whatever the hell happens, you say, "This is what I need." It may look like a wreck, but go at it as though it were an opportunity, a challenge. If you bring love to that moment-not discouragement-you will find the strength is there. Any disaster you can survive is an improvement in your character, your stature, and your life. What a privilege! This is when the spontaneity of your own nature will have a chance to flow.

No age or time of life, no position or circumstance, has a monopoly on success. Any age is the right age to start doing!

Nine out of ten businesses fail; so I came up with a foolproof plan - create ten businesses.

Ninety-eight percent of success is in the head and the heart.

No amount of reading or memorizing will make you successful in life. It is the understanding and application of wise thought which counts.

Nobody can think straight who does not work. Idleness warps the mind.

Nobody controls me. I'm uncontrollable. The only one who can control me is me, and even that's barely possible.

Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Nobody speaks the truth when there's something they must have.

No experience is a cause of success or failure. We do not suffer from the shock of our experiences, so-called trauma - but we make out of them just what suits our purposes.

No experiment is ever a complete failure. It can always be used as a bad example.

No, I'm not a good shot, but I shoot often.

No man is happy who does not think himself so.

No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.

No man is ever whipped until he quits - in his own mind.

No man who is in a hurry is quite civilized.

No matter what you do, do it to your utmost. I always attribute my success to always requiring myself to do my level best, if only in driving a tack in straight.

No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may remain entirely unaffected for the better.

No one can get inner peace by pouncing on it.

None of us suddenly becomes something overnight. The preparations have been in the making for lifetime.

No one could have been more surprised than I at my successes, and yet deep within me there was acknowledgment that had I not succeeded, I would have been equally surprised.

No one ever became great except through many and great mistakes.

No-one gets an iron-clad guarantee of success. Certainly, factors like opportunity, luck and timing are important. But the backbone of success is usually found in old-fashioned, basic concepts like hard work, determination, good planning and perseverance.

No matter what. Wherever your mind wanders, it seems to turn up at the same Field of Dreams. It's the vision you wake up with in the morning, and it's the last thing you picture before you fall asleep. Everytime you think of it, the idea in your head seems to get more vivid, filled in with more detail: You not only want to win a gold medal at the Olympics, you not only can see yourself standing there on the podium, but you can also feel the goose bumps as your national anthem is played; the tears are in your eyes. (That's how real a dream can be and should be)

No one has success, until he has the abounding life. This is made up of the many-fold qualities of energy, enthusiasm, and gladness.

No one ever is defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.

No one ever gets far unless he accomplishes the impossible at least once a day.

No one who can rise before dawn three hundred sixty days a year fails to make his family rich.

No other area offers richer opportunities for successful innovation than the unexpected success.

No other success [in life] can compensate for failure in the home.

Noone's a leader if there are no followers.

No one wants to learn from mistakes, but we cannot learn enough from successes to go beyond the state of the art.

No one will hit you harder than life itself. It doesn't matter how hard you hit back. It's about how much you can take, and keep fighting, how much you can suffer and keep moving forward. That's how you win.