Thomas A. Edison Quotes
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No, I haven't failed thousands of times. On the contrary, I have successfully eliminated thousands of ideas that do not work!
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I am afraid of radium and polonium ... I don't want to monkey with them.
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I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.
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Nature is what we know. We do not know the gods of religions. And nature is not kind, or merciful, or loving. If God made me – the fabled God of the three qualities of which I spoke: mercy, kindness, love – He also made the fish I catch and eat. And where do His mercy, kindness, and love for that fish come in? No; nature made us – nature did it all – not the gods of the religions.
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Vision without execution is delusion.
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I have a peculiar theory about radium, and I believe it is the correct one. I believe that there is some mysterious ray pervading the universe that is fluorescing to it. In other words, that all its energy is not self-constructed but that there is a mysterious something in the atmosphere that scientists have not found that is drawing out those infinitesimal atoms and distributing them forcefully and indestructibly.
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The beauty of a great idea lies in the art of using it.
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Genius? Nothing! Sticking to it is the genius! Any other bright-minded fellow can accomplish just as much if he will stick like hell and remember nothing that's any good works by itself. You've got to make the damn thing work!...I failed my way to success.
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Be courageous! Have faith! Go forward.
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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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I believe that the science of chemistry alone almost proves the existence of an intelligent creator.
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I love great music and art, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.
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I make more mistakes than anyone else I know, and sooner or later, I patent most of them.
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People who will not turn a shovel full of dirt on the project (Muscle Shoals Dam) nor contribute a pound of material, will collect more money from the United States than will the People who supply all the material and do all the work. This is the terrible thing about interest.
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It has been just so in all my inventions. The first step is an intuition-and comes with a burst, then difficulties arise. This thing that gives out and then that-"Bugs"as such little faults and difficulties are called show themselves and months of anxious watching, study and labor are requisite before commercial success-or failure-is certainly reached.
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A man’s best friend is a good wife.
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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 start where the last man left off.
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To have a great idea, have a lot of them.
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Somewhere between the ages of eleven and fifteen, the average child begins to suffer from an atrophy, the paralysis of curiosity and the suspension of the power to observe. The trouble, I should judge, to lie with the schools.
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Personally, I enjoy working about 18 hours a day. Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.
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Never Say I Failed 99 Times, Say I Discovered 99 Ways Which Causes Failure!
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My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant - but misdirected - ideas of others.
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I get my ideas from listening from within.