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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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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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Fooling around with alternating currents is just a waste of time. Nobody will use it, ever. It's too dangerous . . . it could kill a man as quick as a bolt of lightning. Direct current is safe.
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None of my inventions came by accident. I see a worthwhile need to be met and I make trial after trial until it comes. What it boils down to is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
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I know this world is ruled by Infinite Intelligence. It required Infinite Intelligence to create it and it requires Infinite Intelligence to keep it on its course ... It is mathematical in its precision.
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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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When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes.
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Seeming to do is not doing.
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I failed my way to success.
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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.
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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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I've realized that most of my best ideas have followed a good night's sleep.
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I find out what the world needs. Then I go ahead and try to invent it
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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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Accomplishing something provides the only real satisfaction in life.
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It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.
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I start where the last man left off. What the mind of man can conceive and believe, the mind of a man can achieve.
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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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Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
Thomas A. Edison
I didn't fail 1000 times. The light bulb was an invention with 1000 steps.
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