Thomas A. Edison Quotes
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I try not to invent things that people don't need.
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To have a great idea, have a lot of them.
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Because ideas have to be original only with regard to their adaptation to the problem at hand, I am always extremely interested in how others have used used them.
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Vision without execution is delusion.
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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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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 First 40 hours of work per week are for survival. Everything after that is for success.
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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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Genius defined: of inspiration 1% percent, of perspiration, 99%.
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The greatest discoveries will be along spiritual lines. This is the field where miracles are going to happen. Spiritual power is the greatest underdeveloped power and has the greatest future.
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Do the thing and the power will come.
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My main purpose in life is to make enough money to create ever more inventions…. The dove is my emblem…. I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it…. I am proud of the fact that I have never invented weapons to kill….
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Youth doesn't take advice.
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You can't realize your dreams unless you have one to begin with.
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There is time for everything.
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Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith and go forward.
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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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I can accept failure,everyonefails at something. But I can't accept not trying
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Education isn't play--and it can't be made to look like play. It is hard, hard work. But it can be made interesting work.
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The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.
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Two per cent. is genius, and ninety-eight per cent. is hard work.
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To me, the idea and expectation that the day is slowly and surely coming when we will be able to honestly say we are our brother's keeper and not his oppressor is very beautiful .
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The Bible of nature is the best damn Bible in the world. Its laws are perfect and grand, and all the prayers in the world can't change them. There is intelligence and law in this world, and there may be supreme intelligence and law, but so far as the religion of the day is concerned, it is all a damned fake.
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There cannot be overproduction of anything which men and women want. And their wants are unlimited, except by the size of their stomachs.