Thomas A. Edison Quotes
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Success is the product of the severest kind of mental and physical application.
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Barring serious accidents, if you are not preoccupied with worry and you work hard, you can look forward to a reasonably lengthy existence.... Its not the hard work that kills, its the worrying that kills.
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They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has, but I notice he usually blunders forward.
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Success depends on how many experiments you can fit into 24 hours.
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I do not believe in the God of the theologians; but that there is a Supreme Intelligence I do not doubt.
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I never failed. It just didn't work 10,000 times.
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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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There seems to be no limit to which some men will go to avoid the labor of thinking. Thinking is hard work.
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The real measure of success is the number of experiments that can be crowded into 24 hours.
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Personally, I enjoy working about 18 hours a day. Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.
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I think work is the world's greatest fun.
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His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.
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An idea is something that won't work unless you do.
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Success is 90% perspiration and 10% inspiration!
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I never did a day's work in my life, it was all fun.
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The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast.
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I believe that the science of chemistry alone almost proves the existence of an intelligent creator.
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I start where the last man left off.
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I believe that the motion picture is destined to revolutionize our educational system and that in a few years it will supplant largely, if not entirely, the use of textbooks.
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First be sure a thing is wanted or needed, then go ahead.
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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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I never quit until I get what I want.
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To do much clear thinking a person must arrange for regular periods of solitude when they can concentrate and indulge the imagination without distraction.
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A failure teaches you that something can't be done-that way.