I learned that the moment you want to slow down is the moment you should accelerate.

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.

For some offenses, there is only retribution." Nora Hawks, "One Woman's Vengeance.

In order to change we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

It's shocking how little there is to do with tennis when you're just thinking about nothing except winning every point.

He was constantly reminded of how startlingly different a place the world was when viewed from a point only three feet to the left.

There are few positions in life in which difficulties have not to be encountered. These difficulties are, however, our best instructors, as our mistakes often form our best experience.

We are not diminished when someone else is added upon.

The Black Mountain poet I like most is the early Creeley. Those early poems seem very lyrical and very traditional, with a lot of voice and character.

Last year my birthday cake looked like a prairie fire.

The way of success is not run with seven league boots but step by step, little by little, bit by bit ... with no exceptions allowed.

I especially worry about the ways Canadians can be glib about our supposed difference from the US in our "acceptance" of "diversity."