Thomas A. Edison Quotes
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Being busy does not always mean real work.
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I didn't fail 1000 times. The light bulb was an invention with 1000 steps.
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Sticking to it is the genius.
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IF PARENTS PASS ENTHUSIASM ALONG TO THEIR CHILDREN, THEY WILL LEAVE THEM AN ESTATE OF INCALCULABLE VALUE
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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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I did not fail two thousand times. I merely found two thousand ways not to make a lightbulb.
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The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.
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The greatest invention in the world is the mind of a child.
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There's a way to do it better - find it.
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One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.
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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.
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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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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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I didn’t fail ten thousand times. I successfully eliminated, ten thousand times, materials and combinations which wouldn’t work.
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The most necessary task of civilization is to teach people how to think. It should be the primary purpose of our public schools. The mind of a child is naturally active, it develops through exercise. Give a child plenty of exercise, for body and brain. The trouble with our way of educating is that it does not give elasticity to the mind. It casts the brain into a mold. It insists that the child must accept. It does not encourage original thought or reasoning, and it lays more stress on memory than observation.
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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 much more opportunity than there are people to see it.
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I never failed once. It just happened to be a 2000-step process.
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My mother was the making of me.