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There is great value in disaster. All our mistakes are burned up. Thank God we can start a new.
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Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!
Thomas A. Edison
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None of my inventions came by accident. I see a worthwhile need to be met and I make trial after trial until it comes. What it boils down to is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
Thomas A. Edison -
First, study the present construction. Second, ask for all past experiences ...study and read everything you can on the subject.
Thomas A. Edison -
Incurably religious, that is the best way to describe the mental condition of so many people.
Thomas A. Edison -
The successful person makes a habit of doing what the failing person doesn't like to do.
Thomas A. Edison -
The perils of overwork are slight compared with the dangers of inactivity.
Thomas A. Edison -
A reporter called on Edison to interview him about a substitute for lead in the manufacture of storage batteries that the scientist was seeking. Edison informed the man that he had made 20,000 experiments but none had worked. "Aren't you discouraged by all this waste of effort?" the reporter asked. Edison: "Waste! There's nothing wasted. I have discovered 20,000 things that won't work."
Thomas A. Edison
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Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.
Thomas A. Edison -
The injurious agent in cigarettes comes principally from the burning paper wrapper. The substance thereby formed is called "acrolein." It has a violent action on the nerve centers, producing degeneration of the cells of the brain, which is quite rapid among boys. Unlike most narcotics, this degeneration is permanent and uncontrollable. I employ no person who smokes cigarettes.
Thomas A. Edison -
I told [Kruesi] I was going to record talking, and then have the machine talk back. He thought it absurd. However, it was finished, the foil was put on; I then shouted "Mary had a little lamb," etc. I adjusted the reproducer, and the machine reproduced it perfectly. On first words spoken on a phonograph.
Thomas A. Edison -
Through all the years of experimenting and research, I never once made a discovery. I start where the last man left off... All my work was deductive, and the results I achieved were those of invention pure and simple.
Thomas A. Edison -
If I had not had so much ambition and not tried to do so many things, I probably would have been happier, but less useful.
Thomas A. Edison -
The radio craze will die out in time.
Thomas A. Edison
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The value of an idea lies in the using of it.
Thomas A. Edison -
I did not fail two thousand times. I merely found two thousand ways not to make a lightbulb.
Thomas A. Edison -
To those searching for truth -- not the truth of dogma and darkness but the truth brought by reason, search, examination, and inquiry, discipline is required. For faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction -- faith in fiction is a damnable false hope.
Thomas A. Edison -
IF PARENTS PASS ENTHUSIASM ALONG TO THEIR CHILDREN, THEY WILL LEAVE THEM AN ESTATE OF INCALCULABLE VALUE
Thomas A. Edison -
I never failed. It just didn't work 10,000 times.
Thomas A. Edison -
I think that Ingersoll had all the attributes of a perfect man, and, in my opinion, no finer personality ever existed. Judging from the past, I cannot help thinking that the intention of the Supreme Intelligence that rules the world is to ultimately make such a type of man universal.
Thomas A. Edison
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The body is a community made up of its innumerable cells or inhabitants.
Thomas A. Edison -
Success is the product of the severest kind of mental and physical application.
Thomas A. Edison -
The inventor can't do it all, you've got to change people. We have an enormous capacity to invent super-machinery. But our desire to install the device is weak. Human inertia is the problem, not invention. Something in man makes him resist change.
Thomas A. Edison -
The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around.
Thomas A. Edison