Thomas A. Edison Quotes

I didn’t fail ten thousand times. I successfully eliminated, ten thousand times, materials and combinations which wouldn’t work.

Thomas A. Edison

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• My mother was a very beautiful lady, I thought. She was very good to me. I guess - she died when I was nine and a half, but if she had lived, I probably wouldn't be trying to play guitar. She wanted me to be known, but as something else. Not a guitar player.

  

  B. B. King
  • Good
  • Trying
  • She

• It lies in human nature that where you experience your first laughs, you also remember the age kindly.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Experience
  • Remember
  • Nature

• The time is right for electric cars - in fact the time is critical.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • Time
  • Right
  • Environmental

• Writing has been as difficult for me as for people who don't like to write and as little fun.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • People
  • Writing
  • Fun

• It was of limited usefulness to head great rallies. The government did not listen, and, soon enough, the tear gas and the muzzles of the guns were turned against the people. The justice of our cries went unrecognized.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • People
  • Great
  • Government

• We should not judge Islam by terrorists. All civilizations and cultures produce terrorists. Every time there is a flag-burning, killing, or provocative films, I'm worried, not because something radical will happen, and this time, some people are killed. We're very sorry for that.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • People
  • Time
  • Judge

• I think there's a tendency to think geeks and nerds are just sweet guys that were picked on, but that hasn't been my experience. I'm certainly not like that, in a lot of ways.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Experience
  • Think
  • Sweet

• Physical comforts cannot subdue mental suffering, and if we look closely, we can see that those who have many possessions are not necessarily happy. In fact, being wealthy often brings even more anxiety.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Happy
  • Suffering
  • Anxiety

• I'm very involved with all the executives at Televisa.

  

  Randy Falco
  • Very
  • Involved
  • Executives

• I'd like to do a Christmas album. I've never done a Christmas album.

  

  Tanya Tucker
  • Done
  • Like
  • Christmas

• The ideal of a pure phenomenology will be perfected only by answering this question; pure phenomenology is to be separated sharply from psychology at large and, specifically, from the descriptive psychology of the phenomena of consciousness.

  

  Edmund Husserl
  • Question
  • Psychology
  • Pure

• The worst mistake you can make with children is to talk to them in a condescending, patronising way and think that you can teach them something. You have to understand that it is you who will be learning from them. You have to get into their world and see things from their perspective.

  

  Magnus Scheving
  • World
  • Children
  • Learning

• I try to stay real with my thoughts and the things that I go through in life. I like being free.

  

  La India
  • Life
  • Real
  • Free

• Nature is not human hearted.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Nature
  • Human
  • Hearted

• I'm not a career kind of person. When I saw new music, new trends coming in, I didn't see any place for me. And I didn't think about it as a career loss, because I was married - I have a great- grandchild now. The low points were when I lost people that I really cared about.

  

  Lena Horne
  • People
  • Great
  • Music

• I feel it is a blessing, a duty, an honor, that we give the love that we have, and we share the lives that we have with our fullest heart.

  

  Bellamy Young
  • Heart
  • Honor
  • Blessing

• I'm no expert. I have no psychic powers, and I sure don't possess any secret wisdom. I'm just Janet. I have strengths, weaknesses, fears, happiness, sadness. I experience joy and I experience pain. I'm highly emotional. I'm very vulnerable.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • Experience
  • Pain
  • Joy

• Life always bursts the boundaries of formulas. Defeat may prove to have been the only path to resurrection, despite its ugliness. I take it for granted that to create a tree I condemn a seed to rot. If the first act of resistance comes too late it is doomed to defeat. But it is, nevertheless, the awakening of resistance. Life may grow from it as from a seed.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • Create
  • Life is
  • Boundaries

• But why do only unimportant things?" asked Milo, who suddenly remembered how much time he spent each day doing them. "Think of all the trouble it saves," the man explained, and his face looked as if he'd be grinning an evil grin--if he could grin at all. "If you only do the easy and useless jobs, you'll never have to worry about the important ones which are so difficult. You just won't have the time. For there's always something to do to keep you from what you really should be doing, and if it weren't for that dreadful magic staff, you'd never know how much time you were wasting.

  

  Norton Juster
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  • Evil
  • Worry

• I was introduced to lots of great music through my local record store. It was a place where people knew music and they knew me, and could make great suggestions and discoveries. Whether it is in the physical world or on-line, the value of a great and knowledgeable record store has not gone away

  

  Peter Gabriel Genesis
  • People
  • World
  • Great

• I've always been a rebel and it's got me in trouble sometimes, and probably kept me poor. And then again, maybe not, because I might not have the two daughters that I have, you know. And we're all so close now.

  

  Charles Henry Mosley III Bad Brains
  • Sometimes
  • Daughter
  • Trouble

• Strangers come up to me in bars and tell me about their sex lives. I'm thinking, 'You think I can make it better somehow?'

  

  Chris Harrison
  • Tell
  • Strangers
  • Bars

• I didn’t fail ten thousand times. I successfully eliminated, ten thousand times, materials and combinations which wouldn’t work.

  

  Thomas A. Edison
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  • Thousand
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