Thomas A. Edison Quotes
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As Danand Ian over at the Lifestyle Business Podcast say: Rush to failure.
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I didn't fail 1000 times. The light bulb was an invention with 1000 steps.
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The value of an idea lies in the using of it.
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I have a peculiar theory about radium, and I believe it is the correct one. I believe that there is some mysterious ray pervading the universe that is fluorescing to it. In other words, that all its energy is not self-constructed but that there is a mysterious something in the atmosphere that scientists have not found that is drawing out those infinitesimal atoms and distributing them forcefully and indestructibly.
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The body is a community made up of its innumerable cells or inhabitants.
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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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I have been at work for some time building an apparatus to see if it is possible for personalities which have left this earth to communicate with us.
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Genius? Nothing! Sticking to it is the genius! ... I've failed my way to success.
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What you are will show in what you do.
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Surprises and reverses can serve as an incentive for great accomplishment. There are no rules here, we're just trying to accomplish something.
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The strength of the Constitution, lies in the will of the people to defend it.
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Success is the result of hard work.
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The greatest invention in the world is the mind of a child.
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When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.
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There is much more opportunity than there are people to see it.
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I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.
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I know this world is ruled by infinite intelligence. Everything that surrounds us- everything that exists - proves that there are infinite laws behind it. There can be no denying this fact. It is mathematical in its precision.
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When you become quiet, it just dawns on you.
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I never knew I had an inventive talent until Phrenology told me so. I was a stranger to myself until then!
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The radio craze will die out in time.
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Five percent of the people think; ten percent of the people think they think; and the other eighty-five percent would rather die than think.
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I did not fail two thousand times. I merely found two thousand ways not to make a lightbulb.
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I get my ideas from listening from within.
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Every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.