Mark Twain Quotes

Eureka [I have found it]

I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success... such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.

You basically only discover a new thing once.

Sometimes ideas feel like they were already there, and that you're just discovering them.

Sometimes you find something new, and you just say, 'Wow.'

An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.

The great discoveries are usually obvious.

Nothing in the world can be more exciting than to create something and see it work.

The emotion at the point of technical breakthrough is better than wine, women and song put together.

There's nothing that can replace the feeling of winning.

If you do something that you're proud of, that someone else understands, that is a thing of beauty that wasn't there before - you can't beat that.

People wouldn't even go into science unless there was something much bigger to be discovered, something that is transcendent.

Winning is an amazing feeling. You don't get that in business; you don't get that in many things.

I still can't believe I won the Olympics. That's what I feel right now - completely alive as a human being. It's a really beautiful moment.

Before this country came on the scene, for thousands of years people did things the same way. Within 200 years of the advent of this nation, men were walking on the moon, and I want us to recognize this is the kind of people that we are. We're creative with a lot of ingenuity and a lot of energy.

You always get a buzz from winning. Winning is... everything.

What I really want out of life is to discover something new: something mankind didn't know was possible to do.

I'm excited about it, thrilled with the success thus far.

You feel a sense of elation seeing yourself on a billboard.

When I found out I was in the top 13 I was freaking out and crying it was such a joyous moment for me.

There is no better high than discovery.

We are ever on the threshold of new journeys and new discoveries. Can you imagine the excitement of the Wright brothers on the morning of that first flight? The anticipation of Jonas Salk as he analyzed the data that demonstrated a way to prevent polio?

I feel like I'm on the inside for the first time. Inside the castle. I have an Emmy nomination!

Winning's always fun.

The SheBelieves was my big moment, my big breakthrough. We had to get on that platform, hold that trophy, and have that medal around our necks.