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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
Businessperson
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Film Director
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Lighting Designer
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Milan
Ohio
Thomas A. Edison
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Because I readily absorb ideas from every source - frequently starting where the last person left off - I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.
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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.
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The value of an idea lies in the using of it.
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Work while others are wishing.
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The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around.
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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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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.
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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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Great ideas originate in the muscles.
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I consider Paine our greatest political thinker. As we have not advanced, and perhaps never shall advance, beyond the Declaration and Constitution, so Paine has had no successors who extended his principles.
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The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work.
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Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.
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Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!
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I am so deaf I am debarred from hearing all the time articulation and have to depend on the judgment of others.
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Genius is 99% perspiration and 1% inspiration.
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I owe my success to the fact that I never had a clock in my workroom. Seventy-five of us worked twenty hours every day and slept only four hours - and thrived on it.
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I would construct and work along various lines until I found them untenable. When one theory was discarded, I developed another at once. I realized very early that this was the only possible way for me to work out all the problems.
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A genius is a talented person who does his homework.
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