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There's a way to do it better - find it.
Thomas A. Edison
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Thomas A. Edison
Age: 84 †
Born: 1847
Born: February 11
Died: 1931
Died: October 18
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I have not failed 10,000 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 10,000 ways will not work.
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To get a great idea, come up with lots of them.
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Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
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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.
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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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Success is the result of hard work.
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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
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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.
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Success depends on how many experiments you can fit into 24 hours
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I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor....'
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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 inventor tries to meet the demand of a crazy civilization.
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When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes.
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I told [Kruesi] I was going to record talking, and then have the machine talk back. He thought it absurd. However, it was finished, the foil was put on I then shouted Mary had a little lamb, etc. I adjusted the reproducer, and the machine reproduced it perfectly. On first words spoken on a phonograph.
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None of my inventions came by accident. I see a worthwhile need to be met and I make trial after trial until it comes. What it boils down to is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
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Show me a thoroughly satisfied man - and I will show you a failure.
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The world owes nothing to any man, but every man owes something to the world.
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Work while others are wishing.
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I never did a day's work in my life, it was all fun.
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To those searching for truth -- not the truth of dogma and darkness but the truth brought by reason, search, examination, and inquiry, discipline is required. For faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction -- faith in fiction is a damnable false hope.
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