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Lighting Designer Inspirational Quotes (246)

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The world owes nothing to any man, but every man owes something to the world.
Thomas A. Edison
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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.
Thomas A. Edison
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I do not believe any type of religion should ever be introduced into the public schools of the United States.
Thomas A. Edison
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I am afraid of radium and polonium ... I don't want to monkey with them.
Thomas A. Edison
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There is time for everything.
Thomas A. Edison
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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.
Thomas A. Edison
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The doctor of the future will no longer treat the human frame with drugs, but rather will cure and prevent disease with nutrition.
Thomas A. Edison
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The only thing I use my body for is to carry my brain around.
Thomas A. Edison
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There is no limit to which a man will not go to avoid thinking.
Thomas A. Edison
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Perhaps dandruff is the excreta of the mind — the quantity of this material being directly proportional to the amount of reading one indulges in. A book on German metaphysics would thus easily ruin a dress suit.
Thomas A. Edison
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I never failed once. It just happened to be a 2000-step process.
Thomas A. Edison
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I cannot believe in the immortality of the soul. No, all this talk of an existence for us, as individuals, beyond the grave is wrong. It is born of our tenacity of life - our desire to go on living - our dread of coming to an end.
Thomas A. Edison
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People are not remembered by how few times they fail, but by how often they succeed. Every wrong step is another step forward
Thomas A. Edison
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Mr. Edison worked endlessly on a problem, using the method of elimination. If a person asked him if he were discouraged because so many attempts proved unavailing, he would say, No, I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward..
Thomas A. Edison
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Fools call wise men fools. A wise man never calls any man a fool.
Thomas A. Edison
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My mother was the making of me.
Thomas A. Edison
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Seeming to do is not doing.
Thomas A. Edison
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Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so called scientific knowledge.
Thomas A. Edison
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Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
Thomas A. Edison
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Most of my ideas belonged to other people who never bothered to develop them.
Thomas A. Edison
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I think work is the world's greatest fun.
Thomas A. Edison
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We will make electricity so cheap that only the rich will burn candles.
Thomas A. Edison
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Focus on how the end-user customers perceive the impact of your innovation - rather than on how you, the innovators, perceive it.
Thomas A. Edison
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Success is the result of hard work.
Thomas A. Edison
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