Nolan Bushnell Quotes

Genius is merely the capacity for taking infinite pains.

Genius is patience.

It takes a lot of un-spectacular preparation, to get spectacular results

The most unbearable thing about many successful people is not - as we flatteringly think - how lazy they are, but how hard they work.

You must be very patient, very persistent. The world isn't going to shower gold coins on you just because you have a good idea. You're going to have to work like crazy to bring that idea to the attention of people. They're not going to buy it unless they know about it.

Victory is the child of preparation and determination.

My trick is the trick that everyone knows: Work really hard and prepare.

Genius is eternal patience.

Don't think that you can just rely on natural talent because there are going to be times when you get a little tired and that's when your skills come into play to help you make look easy.

We have to fight the entire time, we can't start at the end when it's getting down to crunch time. We can't leave anything on the floor.

I think people sometimes don't pay enough attention to what they do. I've done well, but the reason is pretty simple: I've worked my ass off. The toughest thing a performer can do is make it look as if it comes easy.

Few things are impossible to diligence and skill.

No matter what you do, do it to your utmost. I always attribute my success to always requiring myself to do my level best, if only in driving a tack in straight.

Inspiration is for amateurs. The rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain, you are not going to make an awful lot of work. All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself.

Though you may have known clever men who were indolent, you never knew a great man who was so; and when I hear a young man spoken of as giving promise of great genius, the first question I ask about him always is, Does he work?

Genius is the art of taking pains

Better to toil blindly, beating every stone in turn for grains of gold, whether they contain any or not, than lie down in apathetic decay.

I think one of my biggest lessons so far in life is that hard work really does pay off. It may not culminate in the way you expected it to, but I have found that when I really put my head down and apply myself, I often get a good result.

Genius is the father of a heavenly line, but the mortal mother, that is industry.

If you knew how much work went into it, you wouldn't call it genius.

Excellence without effort is as futile as progress without preparation.

I know of no genius but the genius of hard work.

The only thing I can do is work hard.

Nothing replaces hard work. The harder you work, the luckier you get.