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Having a vision for what you want is not enough...Vision without execution is hallucination.
Thomas A. Edison -
I know this world is ruled by Infinite Intelligence. It required Infinite Intelligence to create it and it requires Infinite Intelligence to keep it on its course ... It is mathematical in its precision.
Thomas A. Edison
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We shall have no better conditions in the future if we are satisfied with all those which we have at present.
Thomas A. Edison -
Nothing that's good works by itself, you've got to make the damn thing work.
Thomas A. Edison -
I am more of a sponge than an inventor. I absorb ideas from every source. I take half-matured schemes for mechanical development and make them practical. I am a sort of a middleman between the long-haired and impractical inventor and the hard-headed business man who measures all things in terms of dollars and cents. My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant but misdirected ideas of others.
Thomas A. Edison -
Everyone steals in commerce and industry. I've stolen a lot, myself. But I know how to steal! They don't know how to steal!
Thomas A. Edison -
I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it. I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others. I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it. I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill. The dove is my emblem.
Thomas A. Edison -
Every failure is a lesson learned about your strategy.
Thomas A. Edison
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It is the people who constitute the basis of Government credit. Why then cannot the people have benefit of their own gilt-edge credit by receiving non-interest bearing currency-instead of bankers receiving the benefit of the people's credit in interest-bearing bonds. If the United States Government will adopt this policy of increasing its national wealth without contributing to the interest collector-for the whole national debt is made up on interest charges-then you will see an era of progress and prosperity in this country such as could never have come otherwise.
Thomas A. Edison -
Religion is all bunk.
Thomas A. Edison -
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Thomas A. Edison -
The United States, and other advanced nations, will someday be able to produce instruments of death so terrible the world will be in abject terror of itself and its ability to end civilization.... Such war-making weapons should be developed - but only for purposes of discovery and experimentation
Thomas A. Edison -
Show me a completely contented person and I'll show you a failure.
Thomas A. Edison -
We haven't failed. We now know a thousand things that won't work, so we are much closer to finding what will.
Thomas A. Edison
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I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.
Thomas A. Edison -
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.
Thomas A. Edison -
I start where the last man left off. What the mind of man can conceive and believe, the mind of a man can achieve.
Thomas A. Edison -
I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
Thomas A. Edison -
I failed my way to success.
Thomas A. Edison -
If there is a better solution... find it.
Thomas A. Edison
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It is remarkable to what lengths people will go to avoid thought.
Thomas A. Edison -
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.
Thomas A. Edison -
I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.
Thomas A. Edison -
I find out what the world needs. Then I go ahead and try to invent it.
Thomas A. Edison