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Lighting Designer Inspirational Quotes (247)

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Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.
Thomas A. Edison
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The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast
Thomas A. Edison
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The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness.
Thomas A. Edison
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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
Thomas A. Edison
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I start where the last man left off. What the mind of man can conceive and believe, the mind of a man can achieve.
Thomas A. Edison
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The sole aim of the arts of scene-designing, costuming, lighting, is to enhance the natural powers of the actor.
Robert Edmond Jones
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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.
Thomas A. Edison
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I call the art of theatre a dirty art, since there are so many people involved who have needs and whims to be satisfied.
Jennifer Tipton
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I never did anything worth doing entirely by accident. . . Almost none of my inventions came about totally by accident. They were achieved by having trained myself to endure and tolerate hard work.
Thomas A. Edison
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Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.
Thomas A. Edison
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The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus.
Thomas A. Edison
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I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor....'
Thomas A. Edison
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As a cure for worrying, work is far better than whiskey. I always found that, if I began to worry, the best thing I could do was focus upon doing something useful and then work very hard at it. Soon, I would forget what was troubling me.
Thomas A. Edison
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To get a great idea, come up with lots of them.
Thomas A. Edison
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Everyone steals in commerce and industry. I've stolen a lot, myself. But I know how to steal! They don't know how to steal!
Thomas A. Edison
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Unfortunately, there seems to be far more opportunity out there than ability.... We should remember that good fortune often happens when opportunity meets with preparation.
Thomas A. Edison
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I've realized that most of my best ideas have followed a good night's sleep.
Thomas A. Edison
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I never view mistakes as failures. They are simply opportunities to find out what doesn't work.
Thomas A. Edison
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When you become quiet, it just dawns on you
Thomas A. Edison
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My main purpose in life is to make enough money to create ever more inventions…. The dove is my emblem…. I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it…. I am proud of the fact that I have never invented weapons to kill….
Thomas A. Edison
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Work while others are wishing.
Thomas A. Edison
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I'm a little vague on the details but aren't doughnuts just the most marvellous thing to ever come out of organised religion?
Catherine Webb
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Results? Why, man, I have gotten lots of results! If I find 10,000 ways something won't work, I haven't failed. I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is often a step forward.
Thomas A. Edison
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I think that Ingersoll had all the attributes of a perfect man, and, in my opinion, no finer personality ever existed. Judging from the past, I cannot help thinking that the intention of the Supreme Intelligence that rules the world is to ultimately make such a type of man universal.
Thomas A. Edison
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