Thomas A. Edison Quotes

The brain can be developed just the same as the muscles can be developed, if on will only take the pains to train the mind to think.

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• In every truth, the beneficiaries of a system cannot be expected to destroy it.

  

  A. Philip Randolph
  • Truth
  • System
  • Destroy

• There's a lot more to me than just power.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Power
  • Me
  • More

• Even as a kid in drawing class, I had real ambition. I wanted to be the best in the class, but there was always some other feller who was better; so I thought, 'It can't be about being the best, it has to be about the drawing itself, what you do with it.' That's kind of stuck with me.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Real
  • Best
  • Thought

• These days, with 'American Idol' and all the other reality shows, young people become famous overnight, and that can be very difficult to handle, the way photographers follow you around and study your every move.

  

  Barry Manilow
  • People
  • American
  • Reality

• You have to struggle to stay alive and be of use as long as you can.

  

  Daniel Berrigan
  • Long
  • Struggle
  • Alive

• 'The Art Student's War' is, at its core, a traditional American wartime love story. As such, it is timely and engrossing. By the end, all its principal characters 'have been to Hell and back.'

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • Art
  • War
  • Story

• Ann Coulter is very popular. She has got a niche. She is a best selling author, but she does not represent Republican women.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Women
  • Popular
  • Author

• There's nothing in Hollywood that's inherently detrimental to good art. I think that's a fallacy that we've created because we frame the work that way too overtly. 'This is Hollywood.' 'This isn't Hollywood.' It's like, 'No, this is actually all Hollywood.' People are just framing them differently.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• I genuinely liked all of the cast members very much. Steve had a wicked sense of humor. I remember Russell coming to my rescue, once. I watched Eric evolve before everyone's eyes. Maurice loved what he did, so. He treated his character with respect, down to the costuming.

  

  Madeleine Stowe
  • Character
  • Remember
  • Respect

• I definitely enjoy working with people who can do their thing but also allow me to do my thing, you know? Who respect the process.

  

  Zendaya
  • People
  • Respect
  • Me

• Halva works brilliantly in ice-cream.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Works
  • Ice Cream

• We're approaching things quite differently this time, but it will still sound like Marilyn Manson.

  

  Daisy Berkowitz
  • Time
  • Like
  • Sound

• I met a number of young, striving, enterprising people in cities like Aligarh and Hubli. But the mental landscape of these towns is out of sync with their reality. Many of these towns are hellholes.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • People
  • Reality
  • Landscape

• The clergy earns its living from religion. If your interests are secured through religion, then you will defend your interests first, and religion will become secondary.

  

  Abdolkarim Soroush
  • You
  • Religion
  • Living

• In 1972, George Harrison invited me to accompany him on a trip to India.

  

  Gary Wright
  • India
  • Trip
  • Invited

• Civilization, to be worthy of the name, must afford other methods of settling human differences than those of blood letting.

  

  Ralph Chaplin
  • Blood
  • Name
  • Differences

• In Tarzan's clever little mind many thoughts revolved, and back of these was his divine power of reason. If he could catch his fellow apes with his long arm of many grasses, why not Sabor, the lioness?

  

  Edgar Rice Burroughs
  • Long
  • Mind
  • Why

• If there is a lesson in our story it is that the manipulation, according to strictly self-consistent rules, of a set of symbols representing one single aspect of the phenomena may produce correct, verifiable predictions, and yet completely ignore all other aspects whose ensemble constitutes reality...

  

  Arthur Koestler
  • May
  • Reality
  • Single

• Maybe I'm too young to keep good love from going wrong, but tonight you're on my mind, so you never know.

  

  Jeff Buckley
  • Good
  • Mind

• If you hear Thelonious Monk play a run that goes from the top of the piano, OK, he has opened up the Grand Canyon with that. He's the river that's carved this entire space that we call the Grand Canyon. He does that with one run. He lets you know, like, what the possibility of the sound of the piano can do.

  

  Jason Moran
  • Up
  • Space
  • River

• The folly and hubris of the policy makers who heedlessly thrust the nation into an ill-defined and open-ended 'global war on terror' without the foggiest notion of what victory would look like, how it would be won, and what it might cost approached standards hitherto achieved only by slightly mad German warlords.

  

  Andrew Bacevich
  • War
  • Mad
  • Victory

• There's always a part of my brain saying: 'Stop getting comfortable. Don't relax.' Because I find it difficult to write when I'm happy. I have to go out there and get battered up and bruised to write anything. I have to feel something.

  

  Tom Odell
  • Writing
  • Brain
  • Feels

• The cooperative, creative, and flexible parts of your children reside in the joyful part of their brain.

  

  Bill Crawford
  • Children
  • Brain
  • Creative

• The brain can be developed just the same as the muscles can be developed, if on will only take the pains to train the mind to think.

  

  Thomas A. Edison
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  • Developed
  • Muscles