“We crave for new sensations but soon become indifferent to them. The wonders of yesterday are today common occurrences”
― Nikola Tesla, quote from My Inventions
“Invention is the most important product of man's creative brain. The ultimate purpose is the complete mastery of mind over the material world, the harnessing of human nature to human needs.”
― Nikola Tesla, quote from My Inventions
“I am credited with being one of the hardest workers and perhaps I am, if thought is the equivalent of labour, for I have devoted to it almost all of my waking hours. But if work is interpreted to be a definite performance in a specified time according to a rigid rule, then I may be the worst of idlers.”
― Nikola Tesla, quote from My Inventions
“But instinct is something which transcends knowledge. We have, undoubtedly, certain finer fibers that enable us to perceive truths when logical deduction, or any other willful effort of the brain, is futile.”
― Nikola Tesla, quote from 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.”
― Nikola Tesla, quote from My Inventions
“Peace can only come as a natural consequence of universal enlightenment and merging of races, and we are still far from this blissful realization.”
― Nikola Tesla, quote from My Inventions
“I had a veritable rnania 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!”
― Nikola Tesla, quote from My Inventions
“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.”
― Nikola Tesla, quote from My Inventions
“The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention. It is the most important product of his creative brain.”
― Nikola Tesla, quote from My Inventions
“As I review the events of my past life I realize how subtle are the influences that shape our destinies.”
― Nikola Tesla, quote from My Inventions
“The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention.”
― Nikola Tesla, quote from My Inventions
“One has to be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane”
― Nikola Tesla, quote from My Inventions
“When natural inclination develops into a passionate desire, one advances towards his goal in seven-league boots.”
― Nikola Tesla, quote from My Inventions
“Deficient observation is merely a form of ignorance and responsible for the many morbid notions and foolish ideas prevailing.”
― Nikola Tesla, quote from My Inventions
“instinct is something which transcends knowledge. We have, undoubtedly, certain finer fibers that enable us to perceive truths when logical deduction, or any other willful effort of the brain, is futile.”
― Nikola Tesla, quote from My Inventions
“The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention. It is the most important product of his creative brain. Its ultimate purpose is the complete mastery of mind over the material world, the harnessing of the forces of nature to human needs.”
― Nikola Tesla, quote from My Inventions
“a telephone subscriber here may call up and talk to any other subscriber on the Globe. An inexpensive receiver, not bigger than a watch, will enable him to listen anywhere, on land or sea, to a speech delivered or music played in some other place, however distant.”
― Nikola Tesla, quote from My Inventions
“Peace can only come as a natural consequence of universal enlightenment and merging of races, and we are still far from this blissful realization. As”
― Nikola Tesla, quote from My Inventions
“War can not be avoided until the physical cause for its recurrence is removed and this, in the last analysis, is the vast extent of the planet on which we live. Only thru annihilation of distance in every respect, as the conveyance of intelligence, transport of passengers and supplies and transmission of energy will conditions be brought about some day, insuring permanency of friendly relations.”
― Nikola Tesla, quote from My Inventions
“Genius is its own passport, and has always been ready to change habitats until the natural one is found.”
― Nikola Tesla, quote from My Inventions
“There is scarcely a subject that cannot be mathematically treated and the effects calculated or the results determined beforehand from the available theoretical and practical data.”
― Nikola Tesla, quote from My Inventions
“One may feel a sudden wave of sadness and rake his brain for an explanation when he might have noticed that it was caused by a cloud cutting off the rays of the sun.”
― Nikola Tesla, quote from My Inventions
“I am credited with being one of the hardest workers and perhaps I am, if thought is the equivalent of labor, for I have devoted to it almost all of my waking hours.”
― Nikola Tesla, quote from My Inventions
“...and led me to finally recognise that I was but an automaton devoid of free will in thought and action and merely responsible to the forces of the environment.”
― Nikola Tesla, quote from My Inventions
“The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention. It is the most important product of his creative brain. Its ultimate purpose is the complete mastery of the mind over the material world, the harnessing of the forces of nature to human needs.”
― Nikola Tesla, quote from My Inventions
“My belief is firm in a law of compensation. The true rewards are ever in proportion to the labor and sacrifices made.”
― Nikola Tesla, quote from My Inventions
“The carrying out into practise of a crude idea as is being generally done is, I hold, nothing but a waste of energy, money and time. My”
― Nikola Tesla, quote from My Inventions
“Only thru annihilation of distance in every respect, as the conveyance of intelligence, transport of passengers and supplies and transmission of energy will conditions be brought about some day, insuring permanency of friendly relations. What we now want most is closer contact and better understanding between individuals and communities all over the earth, and the elimination of that fanatic devotion to exalted ideals of national egoism and pride which is always prone to plunge the world into primeval barbarism and strife.”
― Nikola Tesla, quote from My Inventions
“These are only new devices for putting the weak at the mercy of the strong.”
― Nikola Tesla, quote from My Inventions
“We are automata entirely controlled by the forces of the medium being tossed about like corks on the surface of the water, but mistaking the resultant of the impulses from the outside for free will. The movements and other actions we perform are always life preservative and tho seemingly quite independent from one another, we are connected by invisible links”
― Nikola Tesla, quote from My Inventions
Nikola Tesla
Born place: in Smiljan (former Austrian Empire), Croatia
Born date July 10, 1856
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“It is the unrepentant worship of statistics that forms the true orthodoxy of any modern police department.”
― David Simon, quote from Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets
“Here is the crux of the strategy: Instead of hiring an expert, or spending a lot of time trying to decide which stocks or actively managed funds are likely to be top performers, just invest in index funds and forget about it!”
― quote from The Bogleheads' Guide to Investing
“Something he had heard some wise man say. About the three stages of empire, the three generations. First came the conquerers, unstoppable in war. Then came the administrators, who bound it all together into one apparently unshakable, immortal edifice. Then came the wasters, who knew no responsibility and squandered the capital of their inheritance upon whims and vices. And fell to other conquerers.”
― Glen Cook, quote from The Books of the South
“As a fan I also left a lot to be desired. Juan Alberto Schiaffino and Julio César Abbadie played for Peñarol, the enemy team. I was a loyal Nacional fan and I did everything I could to hate them. But with his masterful passes “El Pepe” Schiaffino orchestrated the team’s plays as if he were watching from the highest tower of the stadium, and “El Pardo” Abbadie, running in his seven-league boots, would slide the ball all the way down the white touchline, swaying back and forth without ever grazing the ball or his opponents. I couldn’t help admiring them, and I even felt like cheering. Years have gone by and I’ve finally learned to accept myself for who I am: a beggar for good soccer. I go about the world, hand outstretched, and in the stadiums I plead: “A pretty move, for the love of God.”
― Eduardo Galeano, quote from Soccer in Sun and Shadow
“Sam Littleton was a beautiful woman who would try to play women's games. That meant that if he asked her if she was upset with him about something, she would do what women all do at such times: She would deny that anything was wrong, then continue acting as if something was wrong, in hopes that he would do what men always do at such times -beg for an explanation, agonise over the answer, ask for hints, and agonise a little more.”
― Judith McNaught, quote from Someone to Watch Over Me
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