<TITLE>07. Par 43-47</TITLE>L-43 And mathematics, there's a key to mathematic, that you just have to get the hang of it. I've seen men that could take four rows of figures, and put their fingers, each one of their fingers on a row of figures, and just come right down like that for maybe five or six figures deep, and put the answer at the bottom. Figuring four rows at a time, anywhere from one to nine. Well, I have a hard time figuring one row, 'less I got enough fingers and toes to count, to--to get one row figured out. I just never could find that key. But, you see, some of them just has that key to it and know how to do it.
And there's a key to knowledge, a man after knowledge. There's a key to science, the scientific researches. Now, there's... That's a great key. People look for that key.

L-45 Like here sometime ago they found an atom, and knowed that there was atoms, and then the atoms form molecules and so forth. Now, they got to searching; someone believed if that atom held the--everything together, if the atom could be turned around, that would take that what it's holding and break it apart. 'Cause everything is held up by atom, we know that. Now, that post is held with atoms. You're held together with atoms. The grass, the trees, everything is to--held together with atoms. Well, if that atom, turning all one way, if it can be broken and turned back, then it would destroy. And now, great scientists believe that that could be done, and they worked and they worked, and they set hour after hour, and week after week, year after year, until finally they conquered it.

L-46 It was, I believe, Thomas Edison, on the light, that they say the man had a knowledge that he could make electricity light. He's the inventor of the light bulb. And he wouldn't even go to bed at night. He would take a sandwich in his hand, and eat his meal, and set there, and figure, and work. Somewhere way back in the back of his mind, something told him he could do it. What is it? It's a key that can open up the way.

L-47 Not many years ago, there was a--a man that he believed that he had a talent to write comic strips. He believed he held the key in his hand. And he wanted... He went... He lived in Kansas. He went to the editor of the great paper in Kansas City, and took some of his writings in. And the editor said, "Sir, you just haven't got it. You--you... There's no need of trying, you--you can't do it." But that didn't satisfy him. He knowed he had it. And he went back again and again, trying, but he--the editor would turn him down. Finally, he went to other places, and they turned him down, saying, "Mister, you just haven't got it. You can't do it." But yet he believed he could do it. Now, that's the way; he's got something in his hand. Finally, he got the job of writing some little script for, I believe, a editorial or something for a church, some sort of a little comic strip for the church. And he rented hisself a little rat or mice infested garage, where the mice was running all over the place and everything in his sheets, and he got to noticing a peculiarity of a certain little mouse. There's where the story of Mickey Mouse was born. Now, it's a multimillionaire is Walt Disney. Why? He had something in his hand, and he knowed he held it; he knowed he could do it. That's the way every great achievement is made. When men and women have something in their hand that they know they can do it.


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