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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.
you must take the problem as it is, and let it be what it wants to be.
High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.
Learn how to fail intelligently.
One fails forward toward success.
The price of progress is trouble.
You can be sincere and still be stupid.
Don't bring anything to me but trouble.
99 percent of success is built on failure.
A problem well stated is a problem half-solved.
Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.
This problem, too, will look simple after it is solved.
Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.
The only time you mustn't fail is the last time you try.
It is easy to build a philosophy - it doesn't have to run
If you have always done it that way, it is probably wrong.
The whole fun of living is trying to make something better.
Logic is a system whereby one may go wrong with confidence.
I've never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
Research means that you don't know, but are willing to find out.
People see the wrongness in an idea much quicker that the rightness.
There has never been any 30-hour week for men who had anything to do.
If you want to kill any idea in the world, get a committee working on it.
The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.
A man must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.
The sure ways to create new ventures of discovery are to keep an open mind.
The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.
An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
The key to economic prosperity is the organized creation of dissatisfaction.
A research problem is not solved by apparatus; it is solved in a man's head.
A person must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.
There will always be a frontier where there is an open mind and a willing hand.
It is not a disgrace to fail. Failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.
In many ways ideas are more important than people - they are much more permanent.
You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.
Every father should remember one day his son will follow his example, not his advice.
No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm.
In America we can say what we think, and even if we can't think, we can say it anyhow.
We are just in the kindergarten of uncovering things; there is no downcurve in science.
Research is an organized method for keeping you reasonably dissatisfied with what you have.
Do not bring me your successes; they weaken me. Bring me your problems; they strengthen me.
The only difference between a problem and a solution is that people understand the solution.
The typical eye sees the ten per cent bad of an idea and overlooks the ninety per cent good.
People are very open-minded about new things - as long as they're exactly like the old ones.
I object to people running down the future. I am going to live all the rest of my life there.
Problems are the price of progress. Don't bring me anything but trouble. Good news weakens me.
Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.
If I have had any success, it's due to luck, but I notice the harder I work, the luckier I get.
