If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.
Through all the years of experimenting and research, I never once made a discovery. I start where the last man left off. All my work was deductive, and the results I achieved were those of invention pure and simple.
The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.
The only achievement I am really proud of is the friends I have made in this community.
First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
To be successful you have to be selfish, or else you never achieve. And once you get to your highest level, then you have to be unselfish. Stay reachable. Stay in touch. Don’t isolate.
The opinion of the world does not affect me. I have placed as the real values in my life what follows when I am dead.
The need of man to wholly realize himself is the only fixed star.
The greatest human achievements have never been for profit.
Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.
Only by strict specialization can the scientific worker become fully conscious, for once and perhaps never again in his lifetime, that he has achieved something that will endure. A really definitive and good accomplishment is today always a specialized accomplishment.
