 An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots. |
| We should all be concerned about the future because we will have to spend the rest of our lives there. |
| You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere. |
| It is not a disgrace to fail. Failing is one of the greatest arts in the world. |
| There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it. |
| You can be sincere and still be stupid. |
| In America we can say what we think, and even if we can't think, we can say it anyhow. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| A person must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere. |
| The only time you mustn't fail is the last time you try. |
| We need to teach the highly educated man 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 in the world. |
| One fails forward toward success. |
| No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm. |
| The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so few have imagination that there are ten thousand fiddlers to one composer. |
| High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation. |
| We often say that the biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee to fail intelligently... to experiment over and over again and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work. |
| People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people. |
| Knowing is not understanding. There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it. |
| An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously. |
