Thomas A. Edison Quotes

I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

Thomas A. Edison

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• The lunch in a normal American restaurant is very problematic for me. I don't like to have hot food for lunch.

  

  Larry David
  • American
  • Food
  • Lunch

• It does not pay a prophet to be too specific.

  

  L. Sprague de Camp
  • Pay
  • Prophet
  • Does

• Being on a lunchbox was awesome, and being on a thermos was pretty cool, too.

  

  Zach Galligan
  • Pretty
  • Cool
  • Being

• Writers tell stories better, because they've had more practice, but everyone has a book in them. Yes, that old cliche.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Book
  • Practice
  • Better

• I admit that the direct model has done a lot for Dell. That's the only thing the company has ever really accomplished.

  

  Eckhard Pfeiffer
  • Done
  • Model
  • Company

• No day is similar to another, but usually mail is part of my start of the day. Our company never sleeps: we have business in 180 countries, so there are no real mornings or nights.

  

  Hans Vestberg
  • Real
  • Business
  • Day

• Great effort springs naturally from great attitude.

  

  Pat Riley
  • Great
  • Effort
  • Attitude

• I've never been one for crushing on famous people.

  

  Daisy Ridley
  • People
  • Never
  • Famous

• The genesis of Public Interest Litigation in listening to the voice of the voiceless and giving access to the poor, the marginalised, and the weak is a unique experiment to be lauded.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Giving
  • Listening
  • Unique

• I'd rather be voted 'the sexiest man in Denmark' than 'the ugliest man in Denmark'.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Man
  • Rather
  • Denmark

• My soul is dark with stormy riot: directly traced over to diet.

  

  Samuel Hoffenstein
  • Soul
  • Dark
  • Diet

• Some people say that I have an attitude- Maybe I do. But I think that you have to. You have to believe in yourself when no one else does- that makes you a winner right there.

  

  Venus Williams
  • People
  • Believe
  • Attitude

• We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom - and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • People
  • God
  • Earth

• I don't concern myself too much about calories and fat.

  

  Hannah Marks
  • Myself
  • Too Much
  • Fat

• Woody Allen sets are very quiet. Extraordinary sense of power from a man who doesn't do anything except just stand there.

  

  F. Murray Abraham
  • Power
  • Man
  • Stand

• I've seen a big shift, especially in my classroom, with women standing up and demanding respect. That's in every woman, whether 16, 26, 56.

  

  P. C. Cast
  • Up
  • Women
  • Respect

• The last two elections were stolen. They were stolen and so we will not rest until we reclaim our democracy and this is what today is all about.

  

  Barbara Lee
  • Today
  • Rest
  • Democracy

• 'Friends' started because Rachel left her husband at the altar. This likability factor is just so stupid to me. It's the same thing as 'wish-fulfillment,' which is a big word you hear in a lot of Hollywood rooms. It basically means that people want to see other people living a life they can't lead, and I don't buy that. I think that's not true.

  

  Adam Pally
  • People
  • Life
  • Friends

• People run away from the name subsidy. It is a subsidy. I am not afraid to call it so. It is paid for the purpose of giving a merchant marine to the whole country so that the trade of the whole country will be benefitted thereby, and the men running the ships will of course make a reasonable profit.... Unless we have a merchant marine, our navy if called upon for offensive or defensive work is going to be most defective.

  

  William Howard Taft
  • People
  • Men
  • Country

• There is pleasure when a sore is scratched, But to be without sores is more pleasurable still. Just so, there are pleasures in worldly desires, But to be without desires is more pleasurable still.

  

  Nagarjuna
  • Pleasure
  • More
  • Still

• It is only shallow people who require years to get rid of an emotion. A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Pleasure
  • Emotion

• The practice of S/M is the creation of pleasure.... And that's why S/M is really a subculture. It's a process of invention. S/M isthe use of a strategic relationship as a source of pleasure.

  

  Michel Foucault
  • Practice
  • Pleasure
  • Creation

• You are alive today, and no matter what your condition, make a mark here and now. Opportunity is at every moment, seizing it is pleasure.

  

  Angelo Sotira
  • Opportunity
  • Pleasure
  • Alive

• I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

  

  Thomas A. Edison
  • Pleasure
  • Reward
  • Precedes