Everybody recognizes that if you can make very efficient electric motors, you can make a quantum leap forward.

I made 5,127 prototypes of my vaccum before I got it right. There were 5,126 failures. But I learned from each one. That’s how I came up with a solution. So I don’t mind failure.

What I've learned from running is that the time to push hard is when you're hurting like crazy and you want to give up. Success is often just around the corner.

Enjoy failure and learn from it. You never learn from success.

Everyone gets knocked back, no one rises smoothly to the top without hindrance. The ones who succeed are those who say, right, let’s give it another go.

Successes teach you nothing. Failures teach you everything. Making mistakes is the most important thing you can do.

Everyone has ideas. They may be too busy or lack the confidence or technical ability to carry them out. But I want to carry them out. It is a matter of getting up and doing it.

In order to fix it, you need a passionate anger about something that doesn't work well.

Engineering undergraduates should not be charged fees. They should receive grants, not student loans, and the government will get the money back long-term from increased exports.

If you want to do something different, you’re going to come up against a lot of naysayers.

Children want the challenge of difficult tasks - just look how much better they are than their parents on a computer.

He was not looking forward to breaking the law. He was straight now. He'd matured. Crime no longer excited him.What?' Ronald said.I didn't say anything.'You're breathing heavy.

Golf puts a man's character on the anvil and his richest qualities - patience, poise, restraint - to the flame.

It takes time and energy, and if I'm working, then I'd rather flop in front of the telly than put on a tiny dress and work out how to get myself to God knows where. I mean, lazy some would call it.

Baseball would be a better game if more third basemen got hit in the mouth by line drivers.

I like boring black and white films with subtitles. I'm basically a drip.

We all fear what we don't know - it's natural.

Even in the worst depression, 25% of businesses are booming - in your industry find out what they’re doing and do it.

My identity was stolen by two separate peoplewho I hope are playing me better

They change the sheets every day... from one bed to another.

You know a man can play the part of a saint just so long for a day comes when his true, his true self unfolds.