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Invention is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration
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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Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge. Remedies from chemicals will never stand in favor compared with the products of nature, the living cell of the plant, the final result of the rays of the sun, the mother of all life.
Thomas A. Edison
The world owes nothing to any man, but every man owes something to the world.
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There seems to be no limit to which some men will go to avoid the labor of thinking. Thinking is hard work.
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The beauty of a great idea lies in the art of using it.
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Youth doesn't take advice.
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The greatest discoveries will be along spiritual lines. This is the field where miracles are going to happen. Spiritual power is the greatest underdeveloped power and has the greatest future.
Thomas A. Edison
When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes.
Thomas A. Edison
The biggest failure of man is that he gives up before he realizes how close he was to success.
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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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I was at the foot of my class.
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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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Sleep is like a drug. Take too much at a time and it makes you dopey. You lose time and opportunities.
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I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor....'
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I know of over 3,000 ways [that] a light bulb does not work.
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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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Genius is 99% perspiration and 1% inspiration.
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I have not failed 700 times. I have not failed once. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.
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Nothing that's good works by itself, you've got to make the damn thing work.
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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.
Thomas A. Edison
A lawsuit is the suicide of time.
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