Inventors don't have time for married life.
Interpretation
The pursuit of innovation often requires personal sacrifices, including relationships.
This quote by Nikola Tesla reflects the intense focus and dedication that inventors and innovators must have in their work, often at the expense of their personal lives. It suggests that the demands of creativity and invention can be so consuming that they leave little room for traditional commitments like marriage, highlighting the sacrifices that come with the pursuit of greatness in one's field.
In practice
In a motivational speech about pursuing one's dreams.
Even matter called inorganic, believed to be dead, responds to irritants and gives unmistakable evidence of a living principle within. Everything that exists, organic or inorganic, animated or inert, is susceptible to stimulus from the outside.
Our senses enable us to perceive only a minute portion of the outside world.
Every living being is an engine geared to the wheelwork of the universe. Though seemingly affected only by its immediate surrounding, the sphere of external influence extends to infinite distance.
The history of science shows that theories are perishable. With every new truth that is revealed we get a better understanding of Nature and our conceptions and views are modified.
The Secretary of Hygiene or Physical Culture will be far more important in the cabinet of the President of the United States who holds office in the year 2035 than the Secretary of War.
I am unwilling to accord to some small−minded and jealous individuals the satisfaction of having thwarted my efforts. These men are to me nothing more than microbes of a nasty disease. My project was retarded by laws of nature. The world was not prepared for it. It was too far ahead of time, but the same laws will prevail in the end and make it a triumphal success.
Longevity, like intelligence and good looks and health and strength of character, is largely a matter of genetic heritage. Choose your parents with care.
Why can’t I try on different lives, like dresses, to see which fits best and is more becoming?
Don't sit and wait. Get out there, feel life. Touch the sun, and immerse in the sea.
Youth is not a vanished thing but something that dwells forever in the heart.
So here's to the girls on the go_x000D_ Everybody tries._x000D_ Look into their eyes,_x000D_ And you'll see what they know:_x000D_ Everybody dies._x000D_ A toast to that invincible bunch,_x000D_ The dinosaurs surviving the crunch._x000D_ Let's hear it for the ladies who lunch_x000D_ Everybody rise!
In this ocean of hours I'm all the time drinking.
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