Thomas A. Edison Quotes
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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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I have been at work for some time building an apparatus to see if it is possible for personalities which have left this earth to communicate with us.
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I am not overly impressed by the great names and reputations of those who might be trying to beat me to an invention. It's their 'ideas' that appeal to me. I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor.
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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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Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character.
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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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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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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 owe my success to the fact that I never had a clock in my workroom.
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Life's most soothing things are a child's goodnight and sweet music.
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Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have.
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Success is 90% perspiration and 10% inspiration!
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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.
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The roots of tobacco plants must go clear through to hell. Satan's principal agent Dyspepsia must have charge of this branch of the vegetable kingdom.
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Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.
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I am so deaf I am debarred from hearing all the time articulation and have to depend on the judgment of others.
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I get my ideas from listening from within.
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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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Be courageous! Have faith! Go forward.
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The strength of the Constitution, lies in the will of the people to defend it.
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Continued innovation is the best way to beat the competition.
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First be sure a thing is wanted or needed, then go ahead.
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Success is the product of the severest kind of mental and physical application.
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It is apparent to me that the possibilities of the aeroplane, which two or three years ago were thought to hold the solution to the [flying machine] problem, have been exhausted, and that we must turn elsewhere.