Thomas A. Edison Quotes
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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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Perhaps dandruff is the excreta of the mind the quantity of this material being directly proportional to the amount of reading one indulges in. A book on German metaphysics would thus easily ruin a dress suit.
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The only time I really become discouraged is when I think of all the things I would like to do and the little time I have in which to do them.
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I'd put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don't have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that.
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Sticking to it is the genius.
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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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Great ideas originate in the muscles.
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The secret of success is focus of purpose.
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To my mind the old masters are not art; their value is in their scarcity.
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The body is a community made up of its innumerable cells or inhabitants.
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Life's most soothing things are a child's goodnight and sweet music.
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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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My mother was the making of me.
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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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Being busy does not always mean real work.
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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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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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Negative results are just what I want. They’re just as valuable to me as positive results. I can never find the thing that does the job best until I find the ones that don’t.
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There is always a better way.
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Success is 90% perspiration and 10% inspiration!
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I didn't fail 1000 times. The light bulb was an invention with 1000 steps.
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From his neck down a man is worth a couple of dollars a day, from his neck up he is worth anything that his brain can produce.
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Nearly every man who develops an idea works it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then he gets discouraged. That's not the place to become discouraged.
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There is much more opportunity than there are people to see it.