Top 40 Sarnoff Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Sarnoff

#1. Atoms for peace. Man is still the greatest miracle and the greatest problem on earth. [Message tapped out by Sarnoff using a telegraph key in a tabletop circuit demonstrating an RCA atomic battery as a power source.]

David Sarnoff

#2. Man is still the greatest miracle and the greatest problem on this earth.

David Sarnoff

#3. Shyness is I-ness. Shyness is really wondering if you have other people's approval.

Dorothy Sarnoff

#4. Research: the distance between an idea and its realization.

David Sarnoff

#5. One difference between a conviction and a prejudice is that a conviction can be explained without getting angry.

Dorothy Sarnoff

#6. We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.

David Sarnoff

#7. If you had to define stress, it would not be far off if you said it was the process of living. The process of living is the process of having stress imposed on you and reacting to it.

Stanley Sarnoff

#8. The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular?

David Sarnoff

#9. The process of living is the process of reacting to stress.

Stanley Sarnoff

#10. Anything that the human mind can conceive can be produced ultimately.

David Sarnoff

#11. An inventor is someone who makes another man rich.

David Sarnoff

#12. We don't criticize. Criticism is an enemy. You've got to make loving, positive suggestions.

Dorothy Sarnoff

#13. I ... began my career as a wireless amateur. After 43 years in radio, I do not mind confessing that I am still an amateur. Despite many great achievements in the science of radio and electronics, what we know today is far less than what we have still to learn.

David Sarnoff

#14. At their best, at their most creative, science and engineering are attributes of liberty-noble expressions of man's God-given right to investigate and explore the universe without fear of social or political or religious reprisals.

David Sarnoff

#15. I have learned to have more trust in the scientist than he does in himself.

David Sarnoff

#16. No man can be successful, unless he first loves his work.

David Sarnoff

#17. Make sure you have finished speaking before your audience has finished listening.

Dorothy Sarnoff

#18. Nobody can be successful if he doesn't love his work, love his job.

David Sarnoff

#19. The more thoughtful you are of others, the more thoughtful they will be of you. The more you respect them, the more you will win their respect.

Dorothy Sarnoff

#20. A life that hasn't a definite plan is likely to become driftwood.

David Sarnoff

#21. Success, in a generally accepted sense of the term, means the opportunity to experience and to realize to the maximum the forces that are within us.

David Sarnoff

#22. The human brain must continue to frame the problems for the electronic machine to solve.

David Sarnoff

#23. Never try to look into both eyes at the same time. Switch your gaze from one eye to the other. That signals warmth and sincerity.

Dorothy Sarnoff

#24. What the human mind can conceive and believe it can accomplish.

David Sarnoff

#25. Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness.

David Sarnoff

#26. A good rule for discussion is to use hard facts and a soft voice.

Dorothy Sarnoff

#27. The difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.

David Sarnoff

#28. It is probable that television drama of high caliber and produced by first-rate artists will materially raise the level of dramatic taste of the nation.

David Sarnoff

#29. Nobody can be a success if they don't love their work.

David Sarnoff

#30. Whatever course you have chosen for yourself, it will not be a chore but an adventure if you bring to it a sense of the glory of striving.

David Sarnoff

#31. Advertising is the spur on the flank that keeps modern company-helping economy out of hand till the day common sense is restored, if ever it happens.

Robert W. Sarnoff

#32. I hitched my wagon to an electron rather than the proverbial star.

David Sarnoff

#33. We are too prone to make technological instruments the scapegoats for the crimes of those who wield them. The products of modern science are not in themselves good or bad; it is the way they are used that determines their value.

David Sarnoff