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His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.
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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The radio craze will die out in time.
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It is a terrible situation when the Government, to insure the National Wealth, must go in debt and submit to ruinous interest charges, at the hands of men, who control the fictitious value of gold. Interest is the invention of Satan.
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The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus and apply your mental and physical energies to the problem at hand - without growing weary. Because such thinking is often difficult, there seems to be no limit to which some people will go to avoid the effort and labor that is associated with 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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I owe my success to the fact that I never had a clock in my workroom. Seventy-five of us worked twenty hours every day and slept only four hours - and thrived on it.
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I would construct and work along various lines until I found them untenable. When one theory was discarded, I developed another at once. I realized very early that this was the only possible way for me to work out all the problems.
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Genius is 99% perspiration and 1% inspiration.
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There cannot be overproduction of anything which men and women want. And their wants are unlimited, except by the size of their stomachs.
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Accomplishing something provides the only real satisfaction in life.
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The perils of overwork are slight compared with the dangers of inactivity.
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I am 67, but I'm not too old to make a fresh start.
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I've realized that most of my best ideas have followed a good night's sleep.
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To do much clear thinking a person must arrange for regular periods of solitude when they can concentrate and indulge the imagination without distraction.
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The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.
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Consider data without prejudice.
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Youth doesn't take advice.
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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.
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