Quotes about Inventor
An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.
— Charles Kettering
People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people.
— Charles Kettering
That has always seemed to me one of the stranger aspects of literary fame: you prove your competence as a writer and an inventor of stories, and then people clamour for you to make speeches and tell them what you think about the world.
— JM Coetzee
not only was cleanliness next to Godliness, dirtiness was the inventor of misery.
— Maya Angelou
The American, by nature, is optimistic. He is experimental, an inventor and a builder who builds best when called upon to build greatly.
— John F. Kennedy
O mighty-mouthed inventor of harmonies, O skilled to sing of Time or Eternity, God-gifted organ-voice of England, Milton, a name to resound for ages.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.
— Charles Kettering