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Vision without execution is delusion.
Thomas A. Edison -
Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character.
Thomas A. Edison
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It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.
Thomas A. Edison -
I start where the last man left off.
Thomas A. Edison -
Of the 200 light bulbs that didn't work, every failure told me something that I was able to incorporate into the next attempt.
Thomas A. Edison -
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.
Thomas A. Edison -
I owe my success to the fact that I never had a clock in my workroom.
Thomas A. Edison -
I am afraid of radium and polonium ... I don't want to monkey with them.
Thomas A. Edison
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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.
Thomas A. Edison -
In creating technology for ourselves we created it for the world.
Thomas A. Edison -
The strength of the Constitution, lies in the will of the people to defend it.
Thomas A. Edison -
The stomach is the only part of man which can be fully satisfied. The yearning of man's brain for new knowledge and experience and for more pleasant and comfortable surroundings never can be completely met. It is an appetite which cannot be appeased.
Thomas A. Edison -
I am both pleased but astonished by the fact that mankind has not yet begun to use all the means and devices that are available for destruction. I hope that such weapons are never manufactured in quantity.
Thomas A. Edison -
To have a great idea, have a lot of them.
Thomas A. Edison
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If I could solve all the problems myself, I would.
Thomas A. Edison -
Time is really the only capital that any human being has, and the only thing he can't afford to lose.
Thomas A. Edison -
I try not to invent things that people don't need.
Thomas A. Edison -
Success depends on how many experiments you can fit into 24 hours.
Thomas A. Edison -
There is no limit to which a man will not go to avoid thinking.
Thomas A. Edison -
First be sure a thing is wanted or needed, then go ahead.
Thomas A. Edison
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Barring serious accidents, if you are not preoccupied with worry and you work hard, you can look forward to a reasonably lengthy existence.... Its not the hard work that kills, its the worrying that kills.
Thomas A. Edison -
I never did a day's work in my life, it was all fun.
Thomas A. Edison -
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 foundations and individual donors whose priorities don't align with my organization's.
Thomas A. Edison -
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.
Thomas A. Edison