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I was at the foot of my class.
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I didn’t fail ten thousand times. I successfully eliminated, ten thousand times, materials and combinations which wouldn’t work.
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What you are will show in what you do.
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My mother was the making of me.
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Mr. Edison worked endlessly on a problem, using the method of elimination. If a person asked him if he were discouraged because so many attempts proved unavailing, he would say, "No, I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.".
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The secret of success is focus of purpose.
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The real measure of success is the number of experiments that can be crowded into 24 hours.
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There is always a better way.
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As Danand Ian over at the Lifestyle Business Podcast say: Rush to failure.
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Focus on how the end-user customers perceive the impact of your innovation - rather than on how you, the innovators, perceive it.
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I have better use for my brain than to poison it with alcohol. To put alcohol in the human brain is like putting sand in the bearings of an engine.
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I do not believe any type of religion should ever be introduced into the public schools of the United States.
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I consider Paine our greatest political thinker. As we have not advanced, and perhaps never shall advance, beyond the Declaration and Constitution, so Paine has had no successors who extended his principles.
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The inventor tries to meet the demand of a crazy civilization.
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His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.
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The biggest failure of man is that he gives up before he realizes how close he was to success.
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There is a better way for everything. Find it.
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Consider data without prejudice.
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Tomorrow Is My Exam But I Don’t Care Because A Single Sheet Of Paper Can’t Decide My Future.
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Any large extension of the Government into business affairs - no matter what the pretense and no matter how the the extension is labeled - will be bound to promote waste and put a curb on our prosperity and progress.
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Great ideas originate in the muscles.
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The world owes nothing to any man, but every man owes something to the world.
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To my mind the old masters are not art; their value is in their scarcity.
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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.
Thomas A. Edison