Nikola Tesla Quotes

If your work isn't exciting, doesn't stir the emotions, where's the challenge? Where's the progress if you always play it safe?

I think the only way I could make something fun and big is if I don't expect it to be.

Mediocrity never goes away - but neither, I hope, do those who are willing to challenge it.

You can't let regret stifle your creativity.

I've been lucky enough to do a lot of very interesting things, and every time, I've been like, 'I want to put everything into this because I want to see how far I can go with it.'

I think that's the point of what we all should all be doing: trying to make the impossible possible.

If you want to be a virtuoso then you have to set your sights above me. You have to go beyond what I'm doing. And that's for you to figure out. Because if you can do that, then I'm going to be trying to go beyond you.

Magic lies in challenging what seems impossible.

To create a new standard, you have to be up for that challenge and really enjoy it.

Dream more than others think practical.

My goal is to get people thinking and trying to wrap their heads around the amazing things that have been achieved and to dream about what will be achieved.

I realized I really liked the screen. I knew it was a challenge, but I wasn't afraid of risk.

Most of the time, I do what I'm offered, but after I worked for it. I think I try much harder for the things that scare me and inspire me. The things that scare and inspire you are things that are different from what you did before.

The most creative people are motivated by the grandest of problems that are presented before them.

I like change, like anybody. You don't want to keep doing the same thing because then it gets harder to take chances, be creative, and feel inspired when you're doing the same thing.

Follow your image as far as you can no matter how useless you think it is. Push yourself.

The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers. But above all, the world needs dreamers who do.

Mediocrity scares me. It's the fear of not being as good as you want to be. If you give over to that fear, it will sabotage you. As much as I can, I try to use that fear to guide me.

If I were to listen to people all the time when they say, 'Hey, this is a really high challenge, this is a high climb, the bar is pretty steep,' then I wouldn't have gone to the academy. I wouldn't have become an aircraft carrier pilot. I wouldn't have become a Navy SEAL for sure. And I probably wouldn't have applied to Harvard.

You see things; and you say 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?'

When you believe in what you're doing and use your imagination and initiative, you can make a difference.

I think it's important to move people beyond just dreaming into doing. They have to be able to see that you are just like them, and you made it.

I don't see how people are comfortable with seeing other people be great. You can be happy for anybody, but what is your excuse to not want to be great? These people are great because they just say, 'I'ma do that,' and they do it. That's it. There's no scientifical process.

I challenge you to be dreamers; I challenge you to be doers and let us make the greatest place in the world even better.

What we need is more people who specialize in the impossible.