Thomas A. Edison Quotes
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It has been just so in all my inventions. The first step is an intuition-and comes with a burst, then difficulties arise. This thing that gives out and then that-"Bugs"as such little faults and difficulties are called show themselves and months of anxious watching, study and labor are requisite before commercial success-or failure-is certainly reached.
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I love great music and art, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.
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Problems in human engineering will receive during the coming years the same genius and attention which the nineteenth century gave to the more material forms of engineering. We have laid good foundations for industrial prosperity, now we want to assure the happiness and growth of the workers through vocational education, vocational guidance, and wisely managed employment departments. A great field for industrial experimentation and statemanship is opening up.
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Genius? Nothing! Sticking to it is the genius! Any other bright-minded fellow can accomplish just as much if he will stick like hell and remember nothing that's any good works by itself. You've got to make the damn thing work!...I failed my way to success.
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No, I haven't failed thousands of times. On the contrary, I have successfully eliminated thousands of ideas that do not work!
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An average American loves his family. If he has any love left over for some other person, he generally selects Mark Twain.
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Never Say I Failed 99 Times, Say I Discovered 99 Ways Which Causes Failure!
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Unfortunately, there seems to be far more opportunity out there than ability.... We should remember that good fortune often happens when opportunity meets with preparation.
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They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has, but I notice he usually blunders forward.
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I cannot believe in the immortality of the soul. No, all this talk of an existence for us, as individuals, beyond the grave is wrong. It is born of our tenacity of life - our desire to go on living - our dread of coming to an end.
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The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will involve the patient in the proper use of food, fresh air and exercise.
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The money one gets for selling one's soul is always spent in deadening one's conscience, so the net gain at the end of a lifetime is no greater than if the diabolic bargain had not been struck.
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Success depends on how many experiments you can fit into 24 hours.
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We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
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I make more mistakes than anyone else I know, and sooner or later, I patent most of them.
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Vision without execution is delusion.
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To have a great idea, have a lot of them.
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There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.
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The trouble with most people is that they quit before they start.
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You can't realize your dreams unless you have one to begin with.
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An idea is something that won't work unless you do.
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Somewhere between the ages of eleven and fifteen, the average child begins to suffer from an atrophy, the paralysis of curiosity and the suspension of the power to observe. The trouble, I should judge, to lie with the schools.
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To get a great idea, come up with lots of them.
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Do the thing and the power will come.