Thomas A. Edison Quotes
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Radio is just a fashion contrivance that will soon die out. It is obvious that there never will be invented a proper receiver!
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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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I believe that the science of chemistry alone almost proves the existence of an intelligent creator.
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I never failed. It just didn't work 10,000 times.
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The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast.
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Keep on the lookout for novel ideas that others have used successfully. Your idea has to be original only in its adaptation to the problem you're working on.
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I am afraid of radium and polonium ... I don't want to monkey with them.
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First be sure a thing is wanted or needed, then go ahead.
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Success is 90% perspiration and 10% inspiration!
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A failure teaches you that something can't be done-that way.
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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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An idea is something that won't work unless you do.
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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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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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One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.
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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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Results? Why, man, I have gotten lots of results! If I find 10,000 ways something won't work, I haven't failed. I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is often a step forward.
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I start where the last man left off.
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I never quit until I get what I want.
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I think work is the world's greatest fun.
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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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I am not overly impressed by the great names and reputations of those who might be trying to beat me to an invention. It's their 'ideas' that appeal to me. I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor.
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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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To do much clear thinking a person must arrange for regular periods of solitude when they can concentrate and indulge the imagination without distraction.