Thomas A. Edison Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world.
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Drilling in ANWR fails to lower energy prices today and sets no long term energy strategy for tomorrow.
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Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
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I grew and learned, journeyed and understood, that someone who is afraid of failing won't get anywhere, and someone who dares to do it runs the risk of failure if they don't learn, correct their mistakes, and get back up.
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Good fiction is about asserting the beauties of the world, inventing a new, positive thing. Where am I going to get that? And it should be original; it should not be cliched. So the way I looked at history was not to accuse it of failure.
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I've experienced poverty and plenty, and there's a lesson to be learned when you're brought up in poverty.
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In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.
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My investment strategy, which is to focus on sectors that are a national priority for India, hasn't changed.
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For me, it was very important to be part of a boxing film that actually explores the psychological aspects of the sport, more than just the physical aspects. I haven't seen boxing movies very often that really go so deep into the minds of the boxers. It really puts out how much it is about strategy and tactics and technique.
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A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.
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The fact to the matter is, we never developed a comprehensive strategy to deal with radical Islam. And the 9/11 commission said one of the things we must do is develop a global alliance to combat it.
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America traditionally represents the greatest possibility of someone's going from nothing to something. Why? In theory, if not practice, the government stays out of the way and lets individuals take risks and reap rewards or accept the consequences of failure. We call this capitalism - or, at least, we used to.
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The moral turpitude of the boys of today appears to center in their failure to concentrate on any particular objective long enough to obtain their maximum results.
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My view is that, as management, the focus has to be on having a strategy and executing it. As you do the strategy and execution, it is important to communicate it consistently.
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Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.
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While the public school rewards failure by throwing more government money at failing school systems, the voucher system does the opposite.
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You will be a failure, until you impress the subconscious with the conviction you are a success. This is done by making an affirmation which 'clicks.'
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Anybody who dies with money in the bank is a failure.
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The more congenial page of some tenth-rate poeticule worn out with failure after failure and now squat in his hole like the tailless fox, he is curled up to snarl and whimper beneath the inaccessible vine of song.
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He was proud, like all lonely men. Lonely men must be proud or die.
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The great thing is that whether we have faith or not, we are by and large very tolerant of people, whatever their particular view.
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One of the reasons why people - particularly young people - love action movies is because what they are really looking for is justice.
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Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.
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Every failure is a lesson learned about your strategy.
