Quotes by Trevor Baylis - Page 1

Do what gives you a buzz.
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Buzz
Giving
Purpose
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Visionaries and dreamers have always been dusted with a little oddity.
Trevor Baylis / Inventor
Dreamer
Oddities
Visionaries
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Invention isn't some impenetrable brand of magic; anyone can have a go.
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Brands
Invention
Magic
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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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Inspiration
Tablets
Water
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The key to success is to risk thinking unconventional thoughts. Convention is the enemy of progress.
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Success
Keys
Thinking
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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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Average
Long
Perception
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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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Ideas
Machines
Mind
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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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Energy
Gadgets
Ideas
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The notion that inventors are anorak-wearing crackpots with glasses held together with Sellotape is beguiling but wrong.
Trevor Baylis / Inventor
Glasses
Madness
Together
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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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Crazy
Mad
People
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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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Ideas
Successful
Sweat
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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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Fall
Night
Tired
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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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Business
Men
Believe
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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.
Trevor Baylis / Inventor
Ideas
Inspiration
Night
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