Combustion Quotes

Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.
Arnold H. Glasow

Success, Yourself, Fire

There was a study done in the early 20th century of all the entrepreneurs who entered the automobile industry around the same time as Henry Ford; there were something like 500 automotive companies that got funded, had the internal combustion engine, had the technology, and had the vision. Sixty percent of them folded within a couple of years.
Eric Ries

Time, Technology, Done

The foodstuff, carbohydrate, is essentially a packet of hydrogen, a hydrogen supplier, a hydrogen donor, and the main event during its combustion is the splitting off of hydrogen.
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

Off, Event, Donor

Spontaneous combustion of grassroots politics is the future.
Dick Morris

Politics, Future, Grassroots

Globally the Greens have arisen like a spontaneous combustion, a reaction to the narrow-minded state-backed exploitation of resources and wealth for a few at the expense of the many.
Bob Brown

Few, Wealth, Reaction

I like people to be surprised by the turn of events. I don't want things just to be pat and formulaic. If there's some sort of internal combustion in the character or a desire to change the way things are going, that makes for conflict, which is the essence of drama.
Miranda Richardson

Change, Character, Makes

I think the internal combustion engine will disappear from the streets of our cities in the next thirty years because transportation will be mass transportation, or probably electrical power.
Gaylord Nelson

Power, Next, Mass

Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must first set yourself on fire.
Fred Shero

Success, Yourself, Fire

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