Be alone, that is the secret of invention; Be alone—that is when ideas are born.

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"as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success... such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything."

- Nikola Tesla

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"Our virtues and our failures are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more."

- Nikola Tesla

Adversity

"I could only achieve success in my life through self-discipline, and I applied it until my wish and my will became one."

- Nikola Tesla

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"Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born."

- Nikola Tesla

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"I don’t care that they stole my idea… I care that they don’t have any of their own."

- Nikola Tesla

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"You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have."

- Maya Angelou

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"Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless."

- Jamie Paolinetti

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"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation."

- Herman Melville

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"I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying."

- Oscar Wilde

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"Show up, show up, show up, and after a while the muse shows up, too."

- Isabel Allende

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