Thomas A. Edison Quotes
His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.
Quotes to Explore
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Be content to act, and leave the talking to others.
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When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
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What if you could radically alter the way stories get told? What if the way people wanted to consume content actually changed what you could make?
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Youku Tudou is a hybrid, like combining Netflix and YouTube. Like Netflix, with Youku, which launched in 2005, we syndicate a library of longform content and create original content. The Tudou model started with user-generated content but is increasingly becoming about partner-generated programming.
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Industry is a better horse to ride than genius.
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Lately I've been feeling like 50 percent of the great content I read comes from Twitter conversations.
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There are two kinds of people on this Earth: Those who are content and those who are not.
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Taste is the common sense of genius.
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An understanding of Sor Juana's work must include an understanding of the prohibitions her work confronts. Her speech leads us to what cannot be said, what cannot be said to an orthodoxy, the orthodoxy to a tribunal, and the tribunal to a sentence.
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All these big corporations like Amazon, those places have great distribution arms, but they can't create content.
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There's an entire universe in every single tweet, and it all really depends on the content as far as how it's going to spread.
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To understand Europe, you have to be a genius - or French.
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Affirmative action based on quotas is wrong - wrong because it is antithetical to the genius of the American idea: individual liberty.
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I do love the clothes on 'Mad Men' because my character has been so elegant and I would never have had access to these clothes. I think Janie Bryant is a costume designing genius. They'll call and tell me, 'It will only take an hour,' and I'm like, 'I will try on the whole truck!'
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Netflix is distributed in 50 countries around the world. It's an incredibly affordable, well-distributed product that gives anyone with access to the Internet and a screen access to content in a very affordable way.
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Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
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I love having a lot of content. I prefer to have constant stimulation.
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A modern-day Dickens with a popular voice and a genius for storytelling in any genre, Stephen King has written many wonderful books.
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Dawkins, as I have said, tells us that there is “absolutely no reason” to think that the Unmoved Mover, First Cause, etc. is omnipotent, omniscient, good, and so forth. Perhaps what he meant to say was “absolutely no reason, apart from the many thousands of pages of detailed philosophical argumentation for this conclusion that have been produced over the centuries by thinkers of genius, and which I am not going to bother trying to answer.” So, a slip of the pen, perhaps.
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If I had undertaken the practical direction of military operations, and anything went amiss, I feared that my conscience would torture me, as guilty of the fall of my country, as I had not been familiar with military tactics.
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His students were hardly in a position to tell him when he was getting windy, and he had recently noticed, as most professors did after a while, that his lectures mysteriously seemed to be getting longer with time.
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His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.
