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“The key to success is to risk thinking unconventional thoughts. Convention is the enemy of progress.”
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Trevor Baylis
Source : "A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future". Book by Daniel H. Pink, 2005.
#Success Quotes
#Thinking Quotes
#Keys Quotes
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“But there is only one person I blame for getting shafted, and that's myself. I went into the deal which I thought would secure the future of Orange Aids with culpable impetuosity. I had been used to doing business on a handshake and my work of honour, and I made the error of actually believing what the men in the pin-striped suits told me.”
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Trevor Baylis
Source : "Two Speed World: The Impact of Explosive and Gradual Change". Book by Terry Lloyd, 2010.
#Business Quotes
#Believe Quotes
#Men Quotes
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“As long as you've got slightly more perception than the average wrapped loaf, you could invent something,”
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Trevor Baylis
#Average Quotes
#Long Quotes
#Perception Quotes
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“I'd work eighteen-hour stretches and fall asleep in my clothes. Then I'd wake up in the middle of the night, brew a pot of tea, and start work again. I was tired, but work had become pure enjoyment.”
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Trevor Baylis
#Fall Quotes
#Tired Quotes
#Night Quotes
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“Invention isn't some impenetrable brand of magic; anyone can have a go.”
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Trevor Baylis
#Magic Quotes
#Invention Quotes
#Brands Quotes
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“The notion that inventors are anorak-wearing crackpots with glasses held together with Sellotape is beguiling but wrong.”
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Trevor Baylis
#Glasses Quotes
#Together Quotes
#Madness Quotes
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“Visionaries and dreamers have always been dusted with a little oddity.”
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Trevor Baylis
#Oddities Quotes
#Dreamer Quotes
#Visionaries Quotes
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“All inventors, they say, are a little mad. I reckon that only completely sane people are willing to admit they are slightly crazy.”
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Trevor Baylis
#Crazy Quotes
#Mad Quotes
#People Quotes
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“That was the Alka-Seltzer moment, the moment when the tablet hits the water and begins to fizz.”
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Trevor Baylis
#Inspiration Quotes
#Water Quotes
#Tablets Quotes
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“Ideas for gadgets for the disabled were coming into my head so fast they seemed to be arriving from somewhere outside of me, beamed down by an unremitting force. I had little control over them, or their flow. I would wake up in the middle of the night. A blinding flash of an idea would rouse me from my bed and I'd rush down to my workshop to have a go at it before the inspiration dimmed.”
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Trevor Baylis
#Inspiration Quotes
#Night Quotes
#Ideas Quotes
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“I was on automatic pilot; ideas for gadgets kept coming, fed by a force of energy flowing through me and around me.”
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Trevor Baylis
#Ideas Quotes
#Pilots Quotes
#Energy Quotes
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“A good idea turns every cog in your mind, making you scared of bed in case the whole machine grinds to a halt.”
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Trevor Baylis
Source : "The Riddle: Where Ideas Come From and How to Have Better Ones". Book by Andrew Razeghi, 2008.
#Ideas Quotes
#Mind Quotes
#Cogs Quotes
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“But having had your bright, fresh, original idea, the really hard part is turning it into a successful product. That's what takes all the sweat.”
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Trevor Baylis
#Successful Quotes
#Sweat Quotes
#Ideas Quotes
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“Do what gives you a buzz.”
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Trevor Baylis
#Giving Quotes
#Buzz Quotes
#Purpose Quotes
