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I learned that the moment you want to slow down is the moment you should accelerate.

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James Dyson
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: May 2
Designer
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Cromer
Norfolk
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Failure is an enigma. You worry about it, and it teaches you something.
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Don't listen to experts.
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Enjoy failure and learn from it. You never learn from success.
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The important thing is to learn from mistakes - something graduates are adept at. Our graduate engineers are working on new technology - from uncharted applications for our digital motor, to a new take on the hand dryer. With an unhindered mind, nothing is off limits.
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I've obviously used fans - I wouldn't say all my life, because we couldn't afford them when I was young, but from my 20s and onwards we've had to use fans. And I've always loathed them. Everything about them. The way you adjust them, getting them at the angle you want. Carrying them. Cleaning them. The danger of putting your finger in them.
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Designing aircraft and racing cars is an extremely exciting thing.
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An inventor's path is chorused with groans, riddled with fist-banging and punctuated by head scratches.
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If you invent something, you're doing a creative act. It's like writing a novel or composing music. You put your heart and soul into it, and money. It's years of your life, it's your house remortgaged, huge emotional investment and financial investment.
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If you can't be unconventional, be obtuse. Be deliberately obtuse, because there are 5 billion people out there thinking in train tracks, and thinking what they have been taught to think.
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Anger is a good motivator.
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You need a stubborn belief in an idea in order to see it realised.
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Today, computers are almost second nature to most of us.
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