Nikola Tesla Quotes
Thomas Edison method was inefficient in the extreme, for an immense ground had to be covered to get anything at all unless blind chance intervened and, at first, I was almost a sorry witness of his doings, knowing that just a little theory and calculation would have saved him 90 per cent of the labor. But he had a veritable contempt for book learning and mathematical knowledge, trusting himself entirely to his inventor's instinct and practical American sense. In view of this, the truly prodigious amount of his actual accomplishments is little short of a miracle.
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We managed to get underway, and I don't know to this day why we didn't get struck or take a torpedo, but we didn't. We got outside of the exit of the harbor and we started dropping depth charges.
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I love Massachusetts for a number of reasons. I once loved a magical girl who lived in a magnificently converted barn, a half-hour or so from Boston. I love your winters. I love the snow.
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We need to understand what innovation will be built on top of our networks.
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For the first five years of my life, things felt pretty good. A lot went wrong after that, family-wise.
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I like writing people from a slightly sharp angle and then throwing more light on them. I think in life we see somebody and make judgments very quickly about who they are and what they are. Or we think people are boring because they appear ordinary.
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True as this is, it is also true that for one who won through there were many who gained nothing, and it was, and is, the sheer weight of numbers of those who failed of this that has made their influence on the modern life as pervasive and controlling as it is.
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Once you get into a part, and someone sees you, you get asked to do it again.
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More than 30 years ago, when I had embarked upon the fight against child labour, it was not even considered an issue worth any discussion. It was accepted as a way of life in India, much like it was in other countries. Today, no country or business or society can throw this issue away.
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In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong.
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There is always some universal proportion, but along with that there are some places where special things happen. Ireland, for example. I've always felt it's interesting to play there. Maybe they just drink more than anybody else.
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You can't prove Rembrandt is better than Norman Rockwell - although if you actually do prefer Rockwell, I'd say you were shunning complexity, were secretly conservative, and hadn't really looked at either painter's work. Taste is a blood sport.
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I'm a spazzer, you know?
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I've signed many documents as president and CEO as required by law. I signed every single document that we were required to file - every single one of them.
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No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
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As knowledge increases, wonder deepens.
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We are all deep in a hell each moment of which is a miracle.
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In times of prosperity we are apt to forget God; we imagine it does not matter whether we recognise Him or not. As long as we are comfortably clothed and fed and looked after, our civilisation becomes an elaborate means of ignoring God.
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They can hop on a line and really dice it up out there.
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Unstable conditionA symptom of lifeIn mental and environmental changeAtmospheric disturbanceThe feverish fluxOf human interface and interchange - Vital Signs (1981)
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I hardly can sleep. I feel that my target now is really to save Mother Earth for humanity. And it's doable.
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No writer need feel sorry for himself if he writes and enjoys it, even if he doesn't get paid.
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We have a chance to do something special for Chicago and we are not taking that for granted.
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Thomas Edison method was inefficient in the extreme, for an immense ground had to be covered to get anything at all unless blind chance intervened and, at first, I was almost a sorry witness of his doings, knowing that just a little theory and calculation would have saved him 90 per cent of the labor. But he had a veritable contempt for book learning and mathematical knowledge, trusting himself entirely to his inventor's instinct and practical American sense. In view of this, the truly prodigious amount of his actual accomplishments is little short of a miracle.
