Thomas A. Edison quotes
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“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.”
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“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
-- Thomas A. EdisonSource : "An Enemy Called Average". Book by John L. Mason, 1990.
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“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”
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“If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves.”
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“Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.”
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“Never Say I Failed 99 Times, Say I Discovered 99 Ways Which Causes Failure!”
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“Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”
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“Having a vision for what you want is not enough...Vision without execution is hallucination”
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“The biggest failure of man is that he gives up before he realizes how close he was to success.”
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“Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have.”
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“Time is really the only capital that any human being has, and the only thing he can't afford to lose.”
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“It has been just so in all my inventions. The first step is an intuition-and comes with a burst, then difficulties arise. This thing that gives out and then that-"Bugs"as such little faults and difficulties are called show themselves and months of anxious watching, study and labor are requisite before commercial success-or failure-is certainly reached.”
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“I believe that the science of chemistry alone almost proves the existence of an intelligent creator.”
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“Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.”
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“Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.”
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“I make more mistakes than anyone else I know, and sooner or later, I patent most of them.”
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“To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.”
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“I didn't fail 1000 times. The light bulb was an invention with 1000 steps.”
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“To get a great idea, come up with lots of them.”
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“The injurious agent in cigarettes comes principally from the burning paper wrapper. The substance thereby formed is called "acrolein." It has a violent action on the nerve centers, producing degeneration of the cells of the brain, which is quite rapid among boys. Unlike most narcotics, this degeneration is permanent and uncontrollable. I employ no person who smokes cigarettes.”
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“I am not overly impressed by the great names and reputations of those who might be trying to beat me to an invention. It's their 'ideas' that appeal to me. I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor”
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“There's a way to do it better - find it.”
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“I do not believe any type of religion should ever be introduced into the public schools of the United States.”
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“To have a great idea, have a lot of them.”
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“I have not failed 700 times. I have not failed once. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
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“I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.”
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“Genius is 1 percent inspiration, 99 percent perspiration.”
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“I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.”
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“I have far more respect for the person with a single idea who gets there than for the person with a thousand ideas who does nothing....”
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“The doctor of the future will no longer treat the human frame with drugs, but rather will cure and prevent disease with nutrition.”
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“I find out what the world needs. Then I go ahead and try to invent it”
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“Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.”
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“The man who doesn’t make up his mind to cultivate the habit of thinking misses the greatest pleasure in life.”
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“The successful person makes a habit of doing what the failing person doesn't like to do.”
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“Never go to sleep without a request to your subconscious.”
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“You can't realize your dreams unless you have one to begin with.”
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“I owe my success to the fact that I never had a clock in my workroom. Seventy-five of us worked twenty hours every day and slept only four hours — and thrived on it.”
-- Thomas A. EdisonSource : "Defending and Parenting Children Who Learn Differently : Lessons from Edison's Mother". Book by Scott Teel, 2007.
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“There is a better way for everything. Find it.”
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“Good fortune is what happens when opportunity meets with planning.”
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“Because I readily absorb ideas from every source - frequently starting where the last person left off - I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.”
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“First, study the present construction. Second, ask for all past experiences ...study and read everything you can on the subject.”
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“Every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward”
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“Discontent is the first necessity of progress.”
-- Thomas A. EdisonSource : "The Diary and Sundry Observations of Thomas Alva Edison". Book by Thomas A. Edison, 1948.
#Inspirational Quotes #Motivational Quotes #Happiness Quotes
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“I think work is the world's greatest fun.”
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“I owe my success to the fact that I never had a clock in my workroom.”
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“The only thing I use my body for is to carry my brain around.”
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“I am long on ideas, but short on time. I expect to live to be only about a hundred.”
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“Each time you fail, you have eliminated another wrong option.”
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“Seeming to do is not doing.”
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“I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun.”
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“As a cure for worrying, work is far better than whiskey. I always found that, if I began to worry, the best thing I could do was focus upon doing something useful and then work very hard at it. Soon, I would forget what was troubling me.”
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“My mother was the making of me. She was so true and so sure of me, I felt that I had someone to live for - someone I must not disappoint. The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me.”
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“If there is a better solution... find it.”
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“During all those years of experimentation and research, I never once made a discovery. All my work was deductive, and the results I achieved were those of invention, pure and simple. I would construct a theory and work on its lines until I found it was untenable. Then it would be discarded at once and another theory evolved. This was the only possible way for me to work out the problem.”
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“Personally, I enjoy working about 18 hours a day. Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.”
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“What you are will show in what you do.”
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“Nature is truly wonderful. Only man is truly foul.”
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“Tomorrow Is My Exam But I Don’t Care Because A Single Sheet Of Paper Can’t Decide My Future”
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“Keep on the lookout for novel ideas that others have used successfully. Your idea has to be original only in its adaptation to the problem you're working on.”
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“Success depends on how many experiments you can fit into 24 hours”
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“The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness... Unfortunately, many of life's failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. I have far more respect for the person with a single idea who gets there than for the person with a thousand ideas who does nothing.”
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“We haven't failed. We now know a thousand things that won't work, so we are much closer to finding what will.”
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“Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character.”
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“What a man's mind can create, man's character can control.”
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“There is much more opportunity than there are people to see it.”
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“People are not remembered by how few times they fail, but by how often they succeed. Every wrong step is another step forward”
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“The most necessary task of civilization is to teach people how to think. It should be the primary purpose of our public schools. The mind of a child is naturally active, it develops through exercise. Give a child plenty of exercise, for body and brain. The trouble with our way of educating is that it does not give elasticity to the mind. It casts the brain into a mold. It insists that the child must accept. It does not encourage original thought or reasoning, and it lays more stress on memory than observation.”
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“The value of an idea lies in the using of it.”
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“When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
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“Failure is the most effective technique to optimize strategic planning, implementation and processes.”
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“Every failure is a lesson learned about your strategy.”
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“Most of my ideas belonged to other people who never bothered to develop them.”
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“Nature made us... nature did it all... not the gods of the religions.”
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“There seems to be no limit to which some men will go to avoid the labor of thinking. Thinking is hard work.”
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“Do the thing and the power will come.”
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“Nearly every man who develops an idea works it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then he gets discouraged. That's not the place to become discouraged.”
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“A genius is a talented person who does his homework.”
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“The First 40 hours of work per week are for survival. Everything after that is for success.”
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“Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith and go forward.”
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“I can never pick up a thing without wishing to improve it.”
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“There is far more opportunity than there is ability.”
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“Being busy does not always mean real work.”
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“My success is due more to my ability to work continuously on one thing without stopping than to any other single quality.”
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“My main purpose in life is to make enough money to create ever more inventions…. The dove is my emblem…. I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it…. I am proud of the fact that I have never invented weapons to kill….”
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“The strength of the Constitution, lies in the will of the people to defend it.”
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“I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.”
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“Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.”
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“I know this world is ruled by infinite intelligence. Everything that surrounds us- everything that exists - proves that there are infinite laws behind it. There can be no denying this fact. It is mathematical in its precision.”
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“We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.”
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