Quotes About Henry Bessemer

#1. I fear this little episode does not speak very favourably for my business capacity in those early days, for I certainly ought to have made much more than I did by this really important invention.

Henry Bessemer

#2. Surround yourself with people who can help you grow into the person you want to become.

Mensah Oteh

#3. If you were starting over today, what would you do differently? Whatever your answer, start doing it now.

Brian Tracy

#4. It's nice to represent a woman who can be bigger than what you see as a typical skinny actress - being funny and desirable at the same time.

Kether Donohue

#5. We're moving away from a credentialed society to a merit society.

Nolan Bushnell

#6. If it scares you, I'll shift back." "I just sliced and diced a Burmese python while you were busy growling at the universe, you overgrown housecat." I

J.C. Daniels

#7. In such a case secrecy must be absolute to be effective, and although mere vague curiosity induced many persons of my intimate acquaintance to ask to be allowed to just go in and have a peep, I never admitted anyone.

Henry Bessemer

#8. It is true I had been successful on a small scale in overcoming one of the main difficulties in the new process, but there was still much to invent, and much that at that period I necessarily knew nothing about.

Henry Bessemer

#9. God and the Soldier all men adore, In time of trouble and no more, For when war is over And all thing righted, God is neglected, And the Old Soldier slighted.

Jan Morris

#10. We fixed on No. 4, Queen Street Place, for our City offices, and it was from there that so many of my patented inventions were dated.

Henry Bessemer

#11. The question now was ... whether that beautiful fabric [the English constitution] ... was to be maintained in that freedom ... for which blood had been spilt; or whether we were to submit to that system of despotism, which had so many advocates in this country.

Charles James Fox

#12. The artist should be intoxicated with the idea of the thing he wants to express.

Robert Henri

#13. I was quite unable to make any white metal alloy hard enough to be made into powder by my machinery.

Henry Bessemer

#14. I had now arrived at my seventeenth year, and had attained my full height, a fraction over six feet. I was well endowed with youthful energy, and was of an extremely sanguine temperament.

Henry Bessemer

#15. On March 4th, 1830, I arrived in London, where a new world seemed opened to me.

Henry Bessemer

#16. I'm vaguely embarrassed by myself sometimes.

Tom Stoppard

#17. At this period the enthusiasm of the amateur was fast giving way to a more steady commercial instinct, and I let no opportunity slip of improving my position, but I felt that I was still labouring under the disadvantage of not having acquired some technical profession.

Henry Bessemer

#18. The bronze powder business, however, no longer required my personal attention, and was well managed by those I had chosen as the guardians of a secret, which was long and honourably kept.

Henry Bessemer

#19. I had an immense advantage over many others dealing with the problem inasmuch as I had no fixed ideas derived from long-established practice to control and bias my mind, and did not suffer from the general belief that whatever is, is right.

Henry Bessemer

#20. The spirit of advaita is not to keep away from anything, but to keep in tune with everything

Chinmayananda Saraswati

#21. Expansion, that is the idea the novelist must cling to, not completion, not rounding off, but opening out.

E. M. Forster

#22. I'm still number one and I just recently won a major tournament ahead of my toughest rivals so I think I had a few years ahead of me if I decided to stay.

Garry Kasparov

#23. Harvey out.
PS I have puny shoulders.
PPS And I'm okay with that.
PPPS I'm not really.

Laura Buzo

#24. I also grew up with community co-parents who looked out for each other. They looked out for children and tried to be the hands of God. They tried to live their faith.

Marian Wright Edelman