Will Thomas
Will Thomas
Will Thomas may refer to:...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
CountryUnited States of America
inspirational science imagination-creativity
To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
people dams banking
People who will not turn a shovel full of dirt on the project (Muscle Shoals Dam) nor contribute a pound of material, will collect more money from the United States than will the People who supply all the material and do all the work. This is the terrible thing about interest.
inspirational ideas acting
I have far more respect for the person with a single idea who gets there than for the person with a thousand ideas who does nothing....
inspirational positive business
Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.
happiness inspiring success
Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have.
time humans human-beings
Time is really the only capital that any human being has, and the only thing he can't afford to lose.
opportunity luck planning
Good fortune is what happens when opportunity meets with planning.
wise men fool
Fools call wise men fools. A wise man never calls any man a fool.
children memories stress
The most necessary task of civilization is to teach people how to think. It should be the primary purpose of our public schools. The mind of a child is naturally active, it develops through exercise. Give a child plenty of exercise, for body and brain. The trouble with our way of educating is that it does not give elasticity to the mind. It casts the brain into a mold. It insists that the child must accept. It does not encourage original thought or reasoning, and it lays more stress on memory than observation.
success work common-sense
The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.
educational thousand findings
We haven't failed. We now know a thousand things that won't work, so we are much closer to finding what will.
hard-work mathematics results
Success is the result of hard work.
self-confidence satisfied conditions
We shall have no better conditions in the future if we are satisfied with all those which we have at present.
motivational character men
Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character.