Thomas A. Edison Quotes
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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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A reporter called on Edison to interview him about a substitute for lead in the manufacture of storage batteries that the scientist was seeking. Edison informed the man that he had made 20,000 experiments but none had worked. "Aren't you discouraged by all this waste of effort?" the reporter asked. Edison: "Waste! There's nothing wasted. I have discovered 20,000 things that won't work."
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The inventor can't do it all, you've got to change people. We have an enormous capacity to invent super-machinery. But our desire to install the device is weak. Human inertia is the problem, not invention. Something in man makes him resist change.
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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 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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All bibles are man-made.
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Time is really the only capital that any human being has, and the only thing he can't afford to lose.
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So far as the religion of the day is concerned, it is a damned fake ... Religion is all bunk.
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The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.
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Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
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The perils of overwork are slight compared with the dangers of inactivity.
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The dove is my emblem.
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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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The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will involve the patient in the proper use of food, fresh air and exercise.
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There is a better way for everything. Find it.
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The inventor tries to meet the demand of a crazy civilization.
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If I had not had so much ambition and not tried to do so many things, I probably would have been happier, but less useful.
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For faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction - faith in fiction is a damnable false hope.
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Never be discouraged, because every wrong turn attempt, when left behind you, is another step forward taking you closer to your goals.
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Be courageous! Have faith! Go forward.
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The great trouble is that the preachers get the children from six to seven years of age and then it is almost impossible to do anything with them.
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The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me.
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I was at the foot of my class.
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Sticking to it is the genius.