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An idea is something that won't work unless you do.
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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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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The value of an idea lies in the using of it.
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To do much clear thinking a person must arrange for regular periods of solitude when they can concentrate and indulge the imagination without distraction.
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They were not failures, they were new found ways of what does not work I can accept failure,everyonefails at something. But I can't accept not trying
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Mr. Edison worked endlessly on a problem, using the method of elimination. If a person asked him if he were discouraged because so many attempts proved unavailing, he would say, No, I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward..
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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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There is great value in disaster. All our mistakes are burned up. Thank God we can start a new.
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If I could solve all the problems myself, I would.
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I remember that I was never able to get along at school. I was at the foot of the class.
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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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I would construct and work along various lines until I found them untenable. When one theory was discarded, I developed another at once. I realized very early that this was the only possible way for me to work out all the problems.
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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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A good idea is never lost. Even though its originator or possessor may die, it will someday be reborn in the mind of another.
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Friendship is the heaven of life.
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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 successful person makes a habit of doing what the failing person doesn't like to do.
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I am a vegetarian as well as a passionate anti-alcoholic, because I can thus make better use of my brain.
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The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.
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I think that Ingersoll had all the attributes of a perfect man, and, in my opinion, no finer personality ever existed. Judging from the past, I cannot help thinking that the intention of the Supreme Intelligence that rules the world is to ultimately make such a type of man universal.
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Having a vision for what you want is not enough...Vision without execution is hallucination
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