Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith and go forward.

An idea is something that won't work unless you do.

There seems to be no limit to which some men will go to avoid the labor of thinking. Thinking is hard work.

I never knew I had an inventive talent until Phrenology told me so. I was a stranger to myself until then!

There is always a better way.

I told [Kruesi] I was going to record talking, and then have the machine talk back. He thought it absurd. However, it was finished, the foil was put on; I then shouted "Mary had a little lamb," etc. I adjusted the reproducer, and the machine reproduced it perfectly. On first words spoken on a phonograph.

The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus and apply your mental and physical energies to the problem at hand - without growing weary. Because such thinking is often difficult, there seems to be no limit to which some people will go to avoid the effort and labor that is associated with it.