Thomas A. Edison Quotes
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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 First 40 hours of work per week are for survival. Everything after that is for success.
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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 is no substitute for hard work.
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Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith and go forward.
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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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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 man who doesn’t make up his mind to cultivate the habit of thinking misses the greatest pleasure in life.
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Youth doesn't take advice.
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I can accept failure,everyonefails at something. But I can't accept not trying
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I'll try anything...I'll even try Limburger cheese!
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I am 67, but I'm not too old to make a fresh start.
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Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.
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My main purpose in life is to make money so I can afford to go on creating more inventions.
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It is a terrible situation when the Government, to insure the National Wealth, must go in debt and submit to ruinous interest charges, at the hands of men, who control the fictitious value of gold. Interest is the invention of Satan.
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There is time for everything.
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The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast.
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Nature made us - nature did it all - not the gods of the religions.
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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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I have determined that there is no market for talking pictures.
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Each time you fail, you have eliminated another wrong option.
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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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There cannot be overproduction of anything which men and women want. And their wants are unlimited, except by the size of their stomachs.
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The value of a good idea is in using it.