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If you want to learn to jump high, you strain your muscles and try over and over to do what you can't do. Ultimately you achieve it. Keep that in mind when you work. Remember that you must wind yourself up. The most watchful employer may discharge you. But he cannot wind you up. Be a self-winding machine, and keep yourself wound up. Your hardest effort may fail to achieve greatness.
Your Honor, they want to reorganize Horse's Neck because they think there's a vein in Amphalula that crosses one of the old workings and that it'll make the property worth millions and millions." Utter silence descended upon the court room silence broken only by the slow ticktack of the self-winding clock on the rear wall and the whine of the electric cars on Park Row.
He had invented a self-winding clock which, outside his own shop and in the hands of another, would not wind; a self-binding reaper that, in his neighbor's field, would not perform its part; and a lamp that was designed to manufacture the gas that it burned from the water in its bowl, but which dismally and ignobly failed.
I'm not reminding you of the self-winding blunderbuss you got in part payment for chopping wood, am I? Or that it went off by itself and shot a cabbage?" Laughing they struck off into a twilight stretch of woods, found a familiar clearing near a spring and made a fire. "Well," said Brian when the fire was down to embers, "what's the schedule? You're road manager this week. What do we eat?"
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