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Never Say I Failed 99 Times, Say I Discovered 99 Ways Which Causes Failure!
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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Mr. Edison worked endlessly on a problem, using the method of elimination. If a person asked him if he were discouraged because so many attempts proved unavailing, he would say, No, I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward..
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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 do not believe any type of religion should ever be introduced into the public schools of the United States.
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My main purpose in life is to make enough money to create ever more inventions…. The dove is my emblem…. I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it…. I am proud of the fact that I have never invented weapons to kill….
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The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me.
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The only thing I use my body for is to carry my brain around.
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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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Focus on how the end-user customers perceive the impact of your innovation - rather than on how you, the innovators, perceive it.
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I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
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I never failed once. It just happened to be a 2000-step process.
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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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The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.
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When there's no experimenting there's no progress. Stop experimenting and you go backward. If anything goes wrong, experiment until you get to the very bottom of the trouble.
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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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There's a way to do it better - find it.
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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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Radio is just a fashion contrivance that will soon die out. It is obvious that there never will be invented a proper receiver!
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I have not failed 10,000 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 10,000 ways will not work.
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