FAMOUS QUOTES   –  (Stolen from Graham Moore’s novel LAST DAYS OF NIGHT.)

Steve Jobs –

• People don’t know what they want until you show it to them.
• We’re not going to be the first at this party, but we’re going to be the best.
• Deciding what not to do is as important as deciding what to do.
• If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time.
• Focus and simplicity – Simple can be harder than complex. You must work hard to get your thinking clean, to make it simple.

Thomas Edison –

• Hell, there are no rules here – we’re trying to accomplish something.
• I have not failed. I’ve just found ten thousand ways that don’t work.
• In any machine, the failure of one part to cooperate properly with another part disorganizes the whole and renders it inoperative for the purpose intended.
• I do not care so much for a great fortune as I do for getting ahead of the other fellows.
• Just because something doesn’t do what you planned it to do, doesn’t mean it’s useless.
• Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
• We often miss opportunity because it’s dressed in overalls and looks like work.
• When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this – you haven’t.

James Watson –  co-discoverer of DNA

• It’s necessary to be slightly underemployed if you are to do something significant.

Karl Popper – Noted 20th Century philosopher

• No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude.

Charles Kettering – inventor of electrical starter

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

Alexander Graham Bell –

• A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with. A man is what he makes of himself.
• Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is opening.

Buckminster Fuller – inventor of geodesic dome.

• There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
• We are called to be the architects of the future, not its victims.

Nikola Tesla – Discoverer of A/C current    

• Be alone- that is the secret of invention: Be alone, that is when ideas are born.
• I do not think you can name many great inventions that were made by married men.

Friedrich Nietzsche –

• Whoever lives for the sake of combating an enemy has an interest in that enemy staying alive.

Bill Gates –

• Headlines, in a way, are what mislead you, because bad news is a headline; gradual improvement is not.

Albert Einstein –

• If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?
• The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead.

I now feel empowered to start over again.

You are welcome.

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