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A teacher sent the following note home with a six-year-old boy 'He is too stupid to learn.' That boy was 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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Having a vision for what you want is not enough...Vision without execution is hallucination
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What is a college? An institute of learning. What is a business? An institute of learning. Life, itself, is an institute of learning.
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I cannot believe in the immortality of the soul. No, all this talk of an existence for us, as individuals, beyond the grave is wrong. It is born of our tenacity of life - our desire to go on living - our dread of coming to an end.
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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 didn’t fail ten thousand times. I successfully eliminated, ten thousand times, materials and combinations which wouldn’t work.
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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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The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me.
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Seeming to do is not doing.
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Remember, life is all what you focus on. Learn lessons and keep moving forward towards your goals and dreams... I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
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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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Absorb ideas from every source.
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Time is really the only capital that any human being has, and the only thing he can't afford to lose.
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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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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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The radio craze will die out in time.
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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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If I had not had so much ambition and not tried to do so many things, I probably would have been happier, but less useful.
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I do not believe any type of religion should ever be introduced into the public schools of the United States.
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The perils of overwork are slight compared with the dangers of inactivity.
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There is much more opportunity than there are people to see it.
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