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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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Keep on the lookout for novel ideas that others have used successfully. Your idea has to be original only in its adaptation to the problem you're working on.
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I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come indirectly through accident, except the phonograph. No, when I have, fully decided that a result is worth getting, I go about it, and make trial after trial, until it comes.
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Surprises and reverses can serve as an incentive for great accomplishment. There are no rules here, we're just trying to accomplish something.
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The real measure of success is the number of experiments that can be crowded into 24 hours.
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There is always a better way.
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Time is really the only capital that any human being has, and the only thing he can't afford to lose.
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I believe in the existence of a Supreme Intelligence pervading the Universe.
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An average American loves his family. If he has any love left over for some other person, he generally selects Mark Twain.
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Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.
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Genius? Nothing! Sticking to it is the genius! ... I've failed my way to success.
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When down in the mouth, remember Jonah. He came out all right.
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The successful person makes a habit of doing what the failing person doesn't like to do.
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I am afraid of radium and polonium ... I don't want to monkey with them.
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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 will not say I failed 1000 times, I will say that I discovered there are 1000 ways that can cause failure
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The United States, and other advanced nations, will someday be able to produce instruments of death so terrible the world will be in abject terror of itself and its ability to end civilization.... Such war-making weapons should be developed - but only for purposes of discovery and experimentation
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I've realized that most of my best ideas have followed a good night's sleep.
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The money one gets for selling one's soul is always spent in deadening one's conscience, so the net gain at the end of a lifetime is no greater than if the diabolic bargain had not been struck.
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To those searching for truth -- not the truth of dogma and darkness but the truth brought by reason, search, examination, and inquiry, discipline is required. For faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction -- faith in fiction is a damnable false hope.
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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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