The finest task for an Engineer – to survey, to plan, to suggest resources and material, assemble them for task in hand, implement and produce results.
Riches do not respond to wishes. They respond only to definite plans, backed by definite desires, through constant persistence.
I`d like to live as a poor man with lots of money.
If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
Art calls for complete mastery of techniques, developed by reflection within the soul.
Earning happiness means doing good and working, not speculating and being lazy. Laziness may look inviting, but only work gives you true satisfaction.
What I cannot create, I do not understand.
Nothing will work unless you do.
You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Dont make money your goal. Instead pursue the things you love doing and then do them so well that people cant take their eyes off of you.
The world does not pay men for that which they 'know'. It pays them for what they do, or induce others to do.
Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy
For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.
You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.
Deadlines just aren't real to me until I'm staring one in the face.
I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who had practiced one kick 10,000 times.
Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.
You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing.
Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.
Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.
You don't get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.
For it is commonly said: accomplished labours are pleasant.