When decisions on nuclear power stations and runways are delayed and the government dilly-dallies, people think they aren't important.

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.

Your goodness must have some edge to it -- else it is none.

When he came in first, he was happy to find all sorts of meaning in the results.

She wouldn't ask. Didn't want to know what manner of thing might crawl toward a fire.

The Lord filled me with desire, and made me feel that I must be as much with Him alone as with souls in public.

It is well for a man to respect his own vocation whatever it is and to think himself bound to uphold it and to claim for it the respect it deserves

Even when we fancy we have grown wiser, it is only, it may be, that new prejudices have displaced old ones.

I don't have the inclinations that other people seem to have as far as the business is concerned.

Now that I'm feeling the responsibilities of adulthood, the choices we make become an incredible weight.

Father-daughter relationship, is something that I think is so unique and it can't really be explained unless you have a daughter.

Humans, werewolves, or, apparently, vampire, it doesn't matter; get more than three of them together and the jockeying for power begins.