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Genius? Nothing! Sticking to it is the genius! ... I've failed my way to success.
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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I have not failed 10,000 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 10,000 ways will not work.
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I am 67, but I'm not too old to make a fresh start.
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We are like tenant farmers chopping down the fence around our house for fuel when we should be using Nature's inexhaustible sources of energy - sun, wind and tide. ... I'd put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don't have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that.
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His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.
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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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We haven't failed. We now know a thousand things that won't work, so we are much closer to finding what will.
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To those searching for truth -- not the truth of dogma and darkness but the truth brought by reason, search, examination, and inquiry, discipline is required. For faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction -- faith in fiction is a damnable false hope.
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They were not failures, they were new found ways of what does not work I can accept failure,everyonefails at something. But I can't accept not trying
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Work while others are wishing.
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People are not remembered by how few times they fail, but by how often they succeed. Every wrong step is another step forward
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Being busy does not always mean real work.
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When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes.
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We will make electricity so cheap that only the rich will burn candles.
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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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Vision without execution is delusion.
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Results? Why, man, I have gotten lots of results! If I find 10,000 ways something won't work, I haven't failed. I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is often a step forward.
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To my mind the old masters are not art their value is in their scarcity.
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