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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.
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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People are not remembered by how few times they fail, but by how often they succeed. Every wrong step is another step forward
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Genius? Nothing! Sticking to it is the genius! ... I've failed my way to success.
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Negative results are just what I want. They’re just as valuable to me as positive results. I can never find the thing that does the job best until I find the ones that don’t.
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We haven't failed. We now know a thousand things that won't work, so we are much closer to finding what will.
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There seems to be no limit to which some men will go to avoid the labor of thinking. Thinking is hard work.
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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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Work while others are wishing.
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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 first requisite of success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem without growing weary.
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There's a way to do it better - find it.
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Never Say I Failed 99 Times, Say I Discovered 99 Ways Which Causes Failure!
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Fish seem to be rather conservative around this bay, one seldom catches enough to form the fundamental basis for a lie. Dante left out one of the torments of Hades I could imagine a doomed mortal made to untangle wet fish lines forever. Everybody lost patience at the stupidity of the fish in not coming forward promptly to be murdered.
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I am afraid of radium and polonium ... I don't want to monkey with them.
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Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.
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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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Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
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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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There cannot be overproduction of anything which men and women want. And their wants are unlimited, except by the size of their stomachs.
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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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The trouble with most people is that they quit before they start.
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