Trevor Baylis Quotes

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• The key to success is to risk thinking unconventional thoughts. Convention is the enemy of progress.
• But having had your bright, fresh, original idea, the really hard part is turning it into a successful product. That's what takes all the sweat.
• I was on automatic pilot; ideas for gadgets kept coming, fed by a force of energy flowing through me and around me.
• A good idea turns every cog in your mind, making you scared of bed in case the whole machine grinds to a halt.
• Ideas for gadgets for the disabled were coming into my head so fast they seemed to be arriving from somewhere outside of me, beamed down…
• That was the Alka-Seltzer moment, the moment when the tablet hits the water and begins to fizz.
• All inventors, they say, are a little mad. I reckon that only completely sane people are willing to admit they are slightly crazy.
• Visionaries and dreamers have always been dusted with a little oddity.
• The notion that inventors are anorak-wearing crackpots with glasses held together with Sellotape is beguiling but wrong.
• Invention isn't some impenetrable brand of magic; anyone can have a go.
• As long as you've got slightly more perception than the average wrapped loaf, you could invent something,
• I'd work eighteen-hour stretches and fall asleep in my clothes. Then I'd wake up in the middle of the night, brew a pot of tea,…
• Do what gives you a buzz.
• But there is only one person I blame for getting shafted, and that's myself. I went into the deal which I thought would secure the…

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