Thomas A. Edison Quotes
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Be courageous! Have faith! Go forward.
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I am a vegetarian as well as a passionate anti-alcoholic, because I can thus make better use of my brain.
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Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
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To get a great idea, come up with lots of them.
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The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard 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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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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I make more mistakes than anyone else I know, and sooner or later, I patent most of them.
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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 never quit until I get what I want.
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They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has, but I notice he usually blunders forward.
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The beauty of a great idea lies in the art of using it.
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An idea is something that won't work unless you do.
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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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I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious ideas of heaven and hell, of future life for individuals, or of a personal God.
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There is no limit to which a man will not go to avoid thinking.
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It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.
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I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 foundations and individual donors whose priorities don't align with my organization's.
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I love great music and art, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.
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In creating technology for ourselves we created it for the world.
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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 try not to invent things that people don't need.
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I start where the last man left off.
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Never Say I Failed 99 Times, Say I Discovered 99 Ways Which Causes Failure!