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Idea Quotes by Nikola Tesla
- Perhaps it is better in this present world of ours that a revolutionary idea or invention instead of being helped and patted be hampered and…
- Edison was by far the most successful and, probably, the last exponent of the purely empirical method of investigation. Everything he achieved was the result…
- The idea of atomic energy is illusionary but it has taken so powerful a hold on the minds, that although I have preached against it…
- A new idea must not be judged by its immediate results.
- That is the trouble with many inventors; they lack patience. They lack the willingness to work a thing out slowly and clearly and sharply in…
- When I get an idea I start at once building it up in my imagination. I change the construction, make improvements and operate the device…
- The idea came like a flash of lightning and in an instant the truth was revealed.
- The practical success of an idea, irrespective of its inherent merit, is dependent on the attitude of the contemporaries. If timely it is quickly adopted;…
- For ages this idea has been proclaimed in the consummately wise teachings of religion, probably not alone as a means of insuring peace and harmony…
- Ere many generations pass, our machinery will be driven by a power obtainable at any point in the universe. This idea is not novel...We find…
- I don't care that they stole my idea . . I care that they don't have any of their own
More Idea Quotes
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- In the United States Christmas has become the rape of an idea. — Richard Bach
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- There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the… — Antonin Artaud
- Writing comes more easily if you have something to say. — Sholem Asch
- A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one. — Mary Kay Ash
- The whole idea of a stereotype is to simplify. Instead of going through the problem of all this great diversity - that… — Chinua Achebe
- I'm a practised writer now. But when I began, I had no idea what this was going to be. I just knew… — Chinua Achebe
- I began writing at the age of 5, but there was a dark period between the ages of 8 and 16 when… — Margaret Atwood
- All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but… — Wystan Hugh Auden