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Vision without execution is delusion.
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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Of the 200 light bulbs that didn't work, every failure told me something that I was able to incorporate into the next attempt.
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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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As a cure for worrying, work is far better than whiskey. I always found that, if I began to worry, the best thing I could do was focus upon doing something useful and then work very hard at it. Soon, I would forget what was troubling me.
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There is no subsitute for hard work.
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Failure is really a matter of conceit. People don't work hard because, in their conceit, they imagine they'll succeed without ever making an effort. Most people believe that they'll wake up some day and find themselves rich. Actually, they've got it half right, because eventually they do wake up.
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People who will not turn a shovel full of dirt on the project (Muscle Shoals Dam) nor contribute a pound of material, will collect more money from the United States than will the People who supply all the material and do all the work. This is the terrible thing about interest.
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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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I didn't fail 1000 times. The light bulb was an invention with 1000 steps.
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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 have had a lot of success with failure
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The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness.
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Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so called scientific knowledge.
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I have better use for my brain than to poison it with alcohol. To put alcohol in the human brain is like putting sand in the bearings of an engine.
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I didn’t fail ten thousand times. I successfully eliminated, ten thousand times, materials and combinations which wouldn’t work.
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The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus.
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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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I know this world is ruled by Infinite Intelligence. It required Infinite Intelligence to create it and it requires Infinite Intelligence to keep it on its course ... It is mathematical in its precision.
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I am both pleased but astonished by the fact that mankind has not yet begun to use all the means and devices that are available for destruction. I hope that such weapons are never manufactured in quantity.
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Sleep is like a drug. Take too much at a time and it makes you dopey. You lose time and opportunities.
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The value of an idea lies in the using of it.
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