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Work while others are wishing.
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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Genius? Nothing! Sticking to it is the genius! ... I've failed my way to success.
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The only time I really become discouraged is when I think of all the things I would like to do and the little time I have in which to do them.
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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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Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.
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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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It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.
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From his neck down a man is worth a couple of dollars a day, from his neck up he is worth anything that his brain can produce.
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Fooling around with alternating currents is just a waste of time. Nobody will use it, ever. It's too dangerous . . . it could kill a man as quick as a bolt of lightning. Direct current is safe.
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If I had not had so much ambition and not tried to do so many things, I probably would have been happier, but less useful.
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Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
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The body is a community made up of its innumerable cells or inhabitants.
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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.
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I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident they came by work.
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I am afraid of radium and polonium ... I don't want to monkey with them.
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When there's no experimenting there's no progress. Stop experimenting and you go backward. If anything goes wrong, experiment until you get to the very bottom of the trouble.
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Two per cent. is genius, and ninety-eight per cent. is hard work.
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There is no limit to which a man will not go to avoid thinking.
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Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character.
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