Baylis Quotes

#1. Jimmy Lee Baylis was a wise man, and knew better than to talk back to the man who signed his paycheck.

Carl Hiaasen

#2. It's not the troubles we run into, it's what we do about them which determines their net effect upon our lives ... by the very act of trying, our spirit is making progress.

Nick Baylis

#3. 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.

Trevor Baylis

#4. It is the ability to focus our attention on self-motivating thoughts, rather than being mesmerised by negatives, which rests at the very heart of a healthy approach to life.

Nick Baylis

#5. It is easier with the right person. A good test of a relationship is how well you both deal with challenges. If one person is more invested, it shows. If you're with the wrong person, it feels like too much work. But if you're unhappy more than you're happy, it's not the right relationship for you.

Susane Colasanti

#6. Do what gives you a buzz.

Trevor Baylis

#7. That was the Alka-Seltzer moment, the moment when the tablet hits the water and begins to fizz.

Trevor Baylis

#8. It's not our past which most determines the possibilities open to us, it's what we choose here and now to make happen in our present and future.

Nick Baylis

#9. All inventors, they say, are a little mad. I reckon that only completely sane people are willing to admit they are slightly crazy.

Trevor Baylis

#10. A good idea turns every cog in your mind, making you scared of bed in case the whole machine grinds to a halt.

Trevor Baylis

#11. It would be wrong to say I enjoy having rows, because that would be un-Christian. If people attack me, then I respond, or if they do very wicked things. Then they must be brought to book.

Paul Johnson

#12. As long as you've got slightly more perception than the average wrapped loaf, you could invent something,

Trevor Baylis

#13. 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.

Trevor Baylis

#14. Every day you awaken, the day before you is a mystery, that is the mystery of life -Maggie Bayliss

Maggie Baylis

#15. The key to success is to risk thinking unconventional thoughts. Convention is the enemy of progress.

Trevor Baylis

#16. No lifetime is long enough for those who wish to create, Raul. Or for those who simply wish to understand themselves and their lives. It is, perhaps, the curse of being human, but also a blessing.

Dan Simmons

#17. Happiness worth having is the warm glow that comes from investing ourselves in the world around us, come what may. It cannot be passively consumed or gulped down like a sugary drink. Happiness must be created by own ingenuity.

Nick Baylis

#18. The notion that inventors are anorak-wearing crackpots with glasses held together with Sellotape is beguiling but wrong.

Trevor Baylis

#19. I was on automatic pilot; ideas for gadgets kept coming, fed by a force of energy flowing through me and around me.

Trevor Baylis

#20. If lying and fabrication are psychologically harmful even in ordinary relations with other men (a sphere where a certain amount of falsification is not uncommon) all falsity is disastrous in any relation with the ground of our own being

Thomas Merton

#21. Invention isn't some impenetrable brand of magic; anyone can have a go.

Trevor Baylis

#22. I've been writing poems since I was sixteen. Back then, poems were an obvious release for all the frustrations and anxieties associated with adolescence. Mostly, they were a way for me to impress girls, even though I never remember any girls being impressed.

Tony Magistrale

#23. Visionaries and dreamers have always been dusted with a little oddity.

Trevor Baylis

#24. We all want to be called servants until someone treats us like one.

Albert Baylis

#25. When I went to Hong Kong, I knew at once I wanted to write a story set there.

Paul Theroux

#26. The sort of resilient personality who can bounce back quickly after a major setback, does so largely because they quickly generate positive emotions which serve as a physical and psychological antidote to bad news.

Nick Baylis

#27. This plan looks like foolishness to earthbound philosophers. How can man comprehend a plan so based on love and servitude that his own deliverance and restoration is achieved by the death of the very "Lord of glory" (2:8)?

Albert H. Baylis