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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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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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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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My main purpose in life is to make money so I can afford to go on creating more inventions.
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Nothing that's good works by itself, you've got to make the damn thing work.
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Genius? Nothing! Sticking to it is the genius! ... I've failed my way to success.
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A lawsuit is the suicide of time.
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I've realized that most of my best ideas have followed a good night's sleep.
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Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so called scientific knowledge.
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Accomplishing something provides the only real satisfaction in life.
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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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Nobody knows whether our personalities pass on to another existence or sphere, but if we can evolve an instrument so delicate to be manipulated by our personality as it survives in the next life such an instrument ought to record something.
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To my mind the old masters are not art their value is in their scarcity.
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I have not failed 700 times. I have not failed once. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.
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A diamond is a piece of coal that stuck to the job
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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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My success is due more to my ability to work continuously on one thing without stopping than to any other single quality.
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Of all my inventions, I liked the phonograph best
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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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Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.
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Radio is just a fashion contrivance that will soon die out. It is obvious that there never will be invented a proper receiver!
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