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I never failed once. It just happened to be a 2000-step process.
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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I never view mistakes as failures. They are simply opportunities to find out what doesn't work.
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Inspiration can be found in a pile of junk. Sometimes, you can put it together with a good imagination and invent something.
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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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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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The biggest failure of man is that he gives up before he realizes how close he was to success.
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So far as the religion of the day is concerned, it is a damned fake ... Religion is all bunk.
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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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In 'Common Sense' Paine flared forth with a document so powerful that the Revolution became inevitable. Washington recognized the difference, and in his calm way said that matters never could be the same again.
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The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus and apply your mental and physical energies to the problem at hand - without growing weary. Because such thinking is often difficult, there seems to be no limit to which some people will go to avoid the effort and labor that is associated with it.
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I was at the foot of my class.
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The endeavor to change universal power by selfish supplication I do not believe in.
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