Thomas A. Edison Quotes
The First 40 hours of work per week are for survival. Everything after that is for success.
Quotes to Explore
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Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
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The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.
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There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.
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I think one problem we've had is that people who are smart and creative and innovative as engineers went into financial engineering.
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It's fun to play dress up for work, but when you have those off-days, it's nice to just be low-key.
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Everything was in stark and dreadful contrast with the trivial crises and counterfeit emotions of Hollywood, and I returned to England deeply moved and emotionally worn out.
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I think about death most of the day, every day. We can't escape death, and choosing to ignore it only makes it more scary.
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Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself, especially over the last four years.
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I'm not always angry. In fact, I think I usually go out of my way to try to find roles that don't seem to be like me.
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National partition is a sorrow that touches all Koreans, but for me it is brought to the fore by unimaginable personal suffering.
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I really am profoundly grateful just in general in my life. I've had an embarrassing amount of good fortune.
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My normal life is like being on holiday.
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My childhood was limited to mostly gospel music. We didn't have, like, a lot of records in our house, you know. It was like my grandparents who raised me. They were pretty old-fashioned in their religious ways, so it was like church, church, church, school, school, school.
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I come from a communist country. We learned nothing of lawyers, nothing about rights.
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I struggled for many, many years following 'Music and Lyrics' - I mean really struggled.
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I don't sleep well. I rehash everything in bed. The mind's still working.
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People thought I was cocky because I didn't talk much. When I first turned pro, reporters asked me who was going to win. I'd say, 'I am' because it was the easier than giving some long, drawn-out answer.
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Peter Jackson is a real big hero of mine because he had the nerve to make 'The Hobbit' at 48 frames per second.
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Others can inspire you, but ultimately the only thing that empowers you is what lies within you and learning how to better utilize what you’ve been given.
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When I grew up, my role model was my grandma because she's just the best.
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After I eat asparagus...
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The First 40 hours of work per week are for survival. Everything after that is for success.
