Anyone developing new products and new technology needs one characteristic above all else: hope.

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.

The truth is that most of us are not our best selves.

People who made their dreams come true didn’t simply go after it. They changed the person they were, in order to fit the type of person that would live that type of dream.

It's really important that as women we tell our stories. That is what helps seed our imaginations.

There is no better way to learn than to teach.

People go to car races to watch the crashes.

I tried to think about other things. I tried to invent optimistic inventions. But the pessimistic ones were extremely loud.

Every single one of us who has been a Woman in Film for more than five minutes is sick of the phrase Women in Film.

The waves belong to the water. Does the water belong to the waves?

Increasing your self-esteem is easy. Simply do good things and remember that you did them.

Real knowledge, like every thing else of the highest value, is not to be obtained so easily. It must be worked for, — studied for, — thought for, — and more than all, it must be prayed for.