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I failed my way to success.
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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Two per cent. is genius, and ninety-eight per cent. is hard work.
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When down in the mouth, remember Jonah. He came out all right.
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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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The biggest failure of man is that he gives up before he realizes how close he was to success.
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The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.
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Of all my inventions, I liked the phonograph best
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The greatest discoveries will be along spiritual lines. This is the field where miracles are going to happen. Spiritual power is the greatest underdeveloped power and has the greatest future.
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They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has, but I notice he usually blunders forward.
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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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Seeming to do is not doing.
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One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.
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The first requisite of success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem without growing weary.
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I am not overly impressed by the great names and reputations of those who might be trying to beat me to an invention. It's their 'ideas' that appeal to me. I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor
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