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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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Thomas A. Edison
Age: 84 †
Born: 1847
Born: February 11
Died: 1931
Died: October 18
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My mother was the making of me. She was so true and so sure of me, I felt that I had someone to live for - someone I must not disappoint. The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me.
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They were not failures, they were new found ways of what does not work I can accept failure,everyonefails at something. But I can't accept not trying
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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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I didn't fail 1000 times. The light bulb was an invention with 1000 steps.
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I am so deaf I am debarred from hearing all the time articulation and have to depend on the judgment of others.
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The man who doesn’t make up his mind to cultivate the habit of thinking misses the greatest pleasure in life.
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I make more mistakes than anyone else I know, and sooner or later, I patent most of them.
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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.
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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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When you become quiet, it just dawns on you
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The biggest failure of man is that he gives up before he realizes how close he was to success.
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