Thomas A. Edison Quotes
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I'm resigned to the fact that the corseted history of America is not as exciting as that of Britain.
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For success of any mission, it is necessary to have creative leadership. Creative leadership is vital for government, non-governmental organisations as well as for industries.
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It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.
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I don't talk about success. I don't know what it is. Wait until I'm dead.
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I know how to make a record that commercial radio or Triple J will smash now... It's kind of hard to stay true and write what you would write if you didn't have that in your head. Because I know I can get way more airplay and get this much bigger... and that's what I'm trying to avoid doing. Trying to avoid the poisons of success.
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I didn't allow failure to break my heart. So I wouldn't allow success to bloat my head.
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I consider 'Dr. Horrible' a tremendous success. The fact that it won an Emmy I just think lends validity to what we were doing and the point we were trying to make: taking the power into someone else's hands and changing the world.
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Focus on being balanced - success is balance.
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In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.
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Just do what you believe in, and success will follow.
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The hardest times to choose love are the very times when you can most grow spiritually. In fact, they are the only times you can grow spiritually!
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As governor, I enjoy the opportunity to talk about Utah's measurable business success.
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I always say that the real success of Wine Library wasn't due to the videos I posted, but to the hours I spent talking to people online afterward, making connections and building relationships.
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It is my belief that many who think they dislike poetry are really poetical in their natures and are indebted to it, more than they imagine, for the success they may have achieved, even in practical pursuits, and for the enjoyment their lives have afforded them.
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The idea of capitalism is not just success but also the failure that allows success to happen.
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The success of 'Kick' will help in the marketing of other small budget independent films I have acted in.
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I don't want to be involved with an actor because I know how they are. I've had problems in the past being with guys who haven't had any success or haven't made as much money, and it's very uncomfortable.
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The story of Americans is the story of arrested metamorphoses. Those who achieve success come to a halt and accept themselves as they are. Those who fail become resigned and accept themselves as they are.
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I didn't have any success in show business until I was 30 to 31 years of age.
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There's nothing like success.
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Tolerance, openness to argument, openness to self-doubt, willingness to see other people's points of view - these are very liberal and enlightened values that people are right to hold, but we can't allow them to delude us to the point where we can't recognise people who are needlessly perpetrating human misery.
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'Leverage' is meant to be based in Boston. But in one episode we're in New York, then another in Chicago, Florida, and Eastern Europe.
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God already knows the naked truth about us, of course. Why not acknowledge it?
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I owe my success to the fact that I never had a clock in my workroom.
