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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.
Thomas A. Edison -
I never once failed at making a light bulb. I just found out 99 ways not to make one.
Thomas A. Edison
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Today, I am wondering what would have happened to me by now, if, fifty years ago, some fluent talker had converted me to the theory of the eight-hour day and convinced me that it was not fair to my fellow-workers to put forth my best efforts in my work? I am glad that the eight-hour day had not been invented when I was a young man. If my life had been made up of eight-hour days, I don't believe I could have accomplished a great deal.
Thomas A. Edison -
Every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
Thomas A. Edison -
The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around.
Thomas A. Edison -
I never failed once. It just happened to be a 2000-step process.
Thomas A. Edison -
Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.
Thomas A. Edison -
I was always afraid of things that worked the first time. Long experience proved that there were great drawbacks found generally before they could be got commercial; but here was something there was no doubt of.
Thomas A. Edison
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Life's most soothing things are a child's goodnight and sweet music.
Thomas A. Edison -
This problem, once solved, will be simple.
Thomas A. Edison -
I would construct and work along various lines until I found them untenable. When one theory was discarded, I developed another at once. I realized very early that this was the only possible way for me to work out all the problems.
Thomas A. Edison -
When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.
Thomas A. Edison -
Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have.
Thomas A. Edison -
Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.
Thomas A. Edison
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I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious ideas of heaven and hell, of future life for individuals, or of a personal God.
Thomas A. Edison -
The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.
Thomas A. Edison -
All bibles are man-made.
Thomas A. Edison -
There's a way to do it better - find it.
Thomas A. Edison -
Success is 90% perspiration and 10% inspiration!
Thomas A. Edison -
I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.
Thomas A. Edison
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I didn’t fail ten thousand times. I successfully eliminated, ten thousand times, materials and combinations which wouldn’t work.
Thomas A. Edison -
I never once made a discovery ... I speak without exaggeration that I have constructed three thousand different theories in connection with the electric light ... Yet in only two cases did my experiments prove the truth of my theory.
Thomas A. Edison -
The real measure of success is the number of experiments that can be crowded into 24 hours.
Thomas A. Edison -
The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness... Unfortunately, many of life's failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Thomas A. Edison