Thomas A. Edison Quotes
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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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Show me a thoroughly satisfied man - and I will show you a failure.
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I've never made a mistake. I've only learned from experience.
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A lawsuit is the suicide of time.
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Nineteen hundred and three will bring great advances in surgery, in the study of bacteria, in the knowledge of the cause and prevention of disease. Medicine is played out. Every new discovery of bacteria shows us all the more convincingly that we have been wrong and that the million tons of stuff we have taken was all useless.
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Life's most soothing things are a child's goodnight and sweet music.
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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 secret of success is focus of purpose.
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I know of over 3,000 ways [that] a light bulb does not work.
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Friendship is the heaven of life.
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Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
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There is much more opportunity than there are people to see 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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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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Tomorrow Is My Exam But I Don’t Care Because A Single Sheet Of Paper Can’t Decide My Future.
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Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly. The scope of thrift is limitless.
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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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I do not believe in the God of the theologians; but that there is a Supreme Intelligence I do not doubt.
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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 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.
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The inventor tries to meet the demand of a crazy civilization.
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Success is the product of the severest kind of mental and physical application.
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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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Keep on the lookout for novel ideas that others have used successfully. Your idea has to be original only in its adaptation to the problem you're working on.