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“My method is different. I do not rush into actual work. When I get an idea I start at once building it up in my imagination. I change the construction, make improvements, and operate the device entirely in my mind.”
― My Inventions: An Autobiography
― My Inventions: An Autobiography
“Marconi is a good fellow. Let him continue. He is using seventeen of my patents.”
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“We crave for new sensations but soon become indifferent to them. The wonders of yesterday are today common occurrences”
― My Inventions
― My Inventions
“Most persons are so absorbed in the contemplation of the outside world that they are wholly oblivious to what is passing on within themselves.”
― My Inventions: The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla
― My Inventions: The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla
“I had a veritable mania for finishing whatever I began, which often got me into difficulties. On one occasion I started to read the works of Voltaire when I learned, to my dismay, that there were close on one hundred large volumes in small print which that monster had written while drinking seventy-two cups of black coffee per diem. It had to be done, but when I laid aside the last book I was very glad, and said, “Never more!”
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