Thomas A. Edison Quotes
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The trouble with most people is that they quit before they start.
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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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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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Vision without execution is delusion.
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Genius defined: of inspiration 1% percent, of perspiration, 99%.
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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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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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We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
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To have a great idea, have a lot of them.
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You can't realize your dreams unless you have one to begin with.
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My mother was the making of me. She was so true and so sure of me, I felt that I had someone to live for - someone I must not disappoint. The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me.
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In creating technology for ourselves we created it for the world.
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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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Success depends on how many experiments you can fit into 24 hours.
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I am long on ideas, but short on time. I expect to live to be only about a hundred.
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I am much less interested in what is called God's word than in God's deeds. All bibles are man-made.
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The stomach is the only part of man which can be fully satisfied. The yearning of man's brain for new knowledge and experience and for more pleasant and comfortable surroundings never can be completely met. It is an appetite which cannot be appeased.
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If the Nation can issue a dollar bond it can issue a dollar bill. The element that makes the bond good makes the bill good also. The difference between the bond and the bill is that the bond lets the money broker collect twice the amount of the bond and an additional 20%. Whereas the currency, the honest sort provided by the Constitution pays nobody but those who contribute in some useful way. It is absurd to say our Country can issue bonds and cannot issue currency. Both are promises to pay, but one fattens the usurer and the other helps the People.
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Everything comes to those who hustle while they wait.
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I think work is the world's greatest fun.
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The First 40 hours of work per week are for survival. Everything after that is for success.
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Nature made us - nature did it all - not the gods of the religions.
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Failure is really a matter of conceit. People don't work hard because, in their conceit, they imagine they'll succeed without ever making an effort. Most people believe that they'll wake up some day and find themselves rich. Actually, they've got it half right, because eventually they do wake up.
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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.