I just want things to work properly.

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.

You can learn to write by writing.

Talk is cheap, action is expensive.

All day we've witnessed each other's crimes. You killed no one today? But how many did you leave to die?

You should never be in the company of anyone with whom you would not want to die.

I wish I could make the statement that 'the odds were against me but you never quit', It was not true. I wanted to give up.

Unfortunately, he was about as deep as a melted ice cube.

Man is free whenever he produces or manifests God, and through this he becomes immortal.

Ice-skating is a dangerous proposition and tennis is going to be something I'm probably not very good at.

If New Orleans is allowed to die, a crucial part of the world's music heritage will disappear.

I love the idea of stepping out of the band situation into a solo world with no boundaries, no expectations, where nothing is out of bounds.