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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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Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas A. Edison
The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.
Thomas A. Edison
I have always consistently opposed high-tension and alternating systems of electric lighting...not only on account of danger, but because of their general unreliability and unsuitability for any general system of distribution.
Thomas A. Edison
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.
Thomas A. Edison
It is apparent to me that the possibilities of the aeroplane, which two or three years ago were thought to hold the solution to the [flying machine] problem, have been exhausted, and that we must turn elsewhere.
Thomas A. Edison
There is always a better way.
Thomas A. Edison
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.
Thomas A. Edison
There's a way to do it better - find it.
Thomas A. Edison
We are striking it big in the electric light, better than my vivid imagination first conceived. Where this thing is going to stop Lord only knows.
Thomas A. Edison
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.
Thomas A. Edison
The successful person makes a habit of doing what the failing person doesn't like to do.
Thomas A. Edison
I never failed. It just didn't work 10,000 times.
Thomas A. Edison
My main purpose in life is to make money so I can afford to go on creating more inventions.
Thomas A. Edison
Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character.
Thomas A. Edison
Direct thought is not an attribute of feminity. In this, women are now centuries behind man.
Thomas A. Edison
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 foundations and individual donors whose priorities don't align with my organization's.
Thomas A. Edison
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.
Thomas A. Edison
Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so called scientific knowledge.
Thomas A. Edison
Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly. The scope of thrift is limitless.
Thomas A. Edison
The first requisite of success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem without growing weary.
Thomas A. Edison
