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A genius is a talented person who does his homework.
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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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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The biggest failure of man is that he gives up before he realizes how close he was to success.
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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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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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I never failed. It just didn't work 10,000 times.
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I have not failed. I have successfully discovered 1200 ideas that don't work.
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I did not fail two thousand times. I merely found two thousand ways not to make a lightbulb.
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Two per cent. is genius, and ninety-eight per cent. is hard work.
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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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As a cure for worrying, work is far better than whiskey. I always found that, if I began to worry, the best thing I could do was focus upon doing something useful and then work very hard at it. Soon, I would forget what was troubling me.
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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'd put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don't have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that.
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Unfortunately, there seems to be far more opportunity out there than ability.... We should remember that good fortune often happens when opportunity meets with preparation.
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I know of over 3,000 ways [that] a light bulb does not work.
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I'll try anything...I'll even try Limburger cheese!
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Most of my ideas belonged to other people who never bothered to develop them.
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Of the 200 light bulbs that didn't work, every failure told me something that I was able to incorporate into the next attempt.
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Fools call wise men fools. A wise man never calls any man a fool.
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