Will Thomas
Will Thomas
Will Thomas may refer to:...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
CountryUnited States of America
men ideas long
I am more of a sponge than an inventor. I absorb ideas from every source. I take half-matured schemes for mechanical development and make them practical. I am a sort of a middleman between the long-haired and impractical inventor and the hard-headed business man who measures all things in terms of dollars and cents. My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant but misdirected ideas of others.
firsts needed wanted
First be sure a thing is wanted or needed, then go ahead.
success growing firsts
The first requisite of success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem without growing weary.
kind application products
Success is the product of the severest kind of mental and physical application,
names ideas trying
I am not overly impressed by the great names and reputations of those who might be trying to beat me to an invention. It's their 'ideas' that appeal to me. I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor
book speech able
Many a person who could not comprehend Rousseau, and would be puzzled by Montesquieu, could understand Paine as an open book. He wrote with a clarity, a sharpness of outline and exactness of speech that even a schoolboy should be able to grasp.
trying cheese
I'll try anything...I'll even try Limburger cheese!
motivational ideas giving
My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant - but misdirected - ideas of others....
creative trying want
M. A. Rosanoff: Mr. Edison, please tell me what laboratory rules you want me to observe. Edison: There ain't no rules around here. We're trying to accomplish somep'n!
perseverance steps process
I never failed once. It just happened to be a 2000-step process.
children years age
The great trouble is that the preachers get the children from six to seven years of age and then it is almost impossible to do anything with them.
personality earth building
I have been at work for some time building an apparatus to see if it is possible for personalities which have left this earth to communicate with us.
ideas good-ideas values
The value of a good idea is in using it.
simple discovery years
During all those years of experimentation and research, I never once made a discovery. All my work was deductive, and the results I achieved were those of invention, pure and simple. I would construct a theory and work on its lines until I found it was untenable. Then it would be discarded at once and another theory evolved. This was the only possible way for me to work out the problem.