Thomas A. Edison Quotes
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Remember, life is all what you focus on. Learn lessons and keep moving forward towards your goals and dreams... "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
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I would rather have one man with enthusiasm working with me than ten who are complacent.
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There is no limit to which a man will not go to avoid thinking.
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There is no subsitute for hard work.
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The trouble with most people is that they quit before they start.
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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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There is no substitute for hard work.
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I am 67, but I'm not too old to make a fresh start.
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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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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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You can't realize your dreams unless you have one to begin with.
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Nature made us - nature did it all - not the gods of the religions.
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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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I think work is the world's greatest fun.
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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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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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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 am long on ideas, but short on time. I expect to live to be only about a hundred.
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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 first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus and apply your mental and physical energies to the problem at hand - without growing weary. Because such thinking is often difficult, there seems to be no limit to which some people will go to avoid the effort and labor that is associated with it.
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The brain can be developed just the same as the muscles can be developed, if on will only take the pains to train the mind to think.
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Continued innovation is the best way to beat the competition.
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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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There seems to be no limit to which some men will go to avoid the labor of thinking. Thinking is hard work.