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There is much more opportunity than there are people to see it.
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 owe my success to the fact that I never had a clock in my workroom.
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Failure is really a matter of conceit. People don't work hard because, in their conceit, they imagine they'll succeed without ever making an effort. Most people believe that they'll wake up some day and find themselves rich. Actually, they've got it half right, because eventually they do wake up.
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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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Of the 200 light bulbs that didn't work, every failure told me something that I was able to incorporate into the next attempt.
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Inspiration can be found in a pile of junk. Sometimes, you can put it together with a good imagination and invent something.
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I will not say I failed 1000 times, I will say that I discovered there are 1000 ways that can cause failure
Thomas A. Edison
Invention is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration.
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The value of an idea lies in the using of it.
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Two per cent. is genius, and ninety-eight per cent. is hard work.
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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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None of my inventions came by accident. I see a worthwhile need to be met and I make trial after trial until it comes. What it boils down to is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
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Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.
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I cannot believe in the immortality of the soul. No, all this talk of an existence for us, as individuals, beyond the grave is wrong. It is born of our tenacity of life - our desire to go on living - our dread of coming to an end.
Thomas A. Edison
I am both pleased but astonished by the fact that mankind has not yet begun to use all the means and devices that are available for destruction. I hope that such weapons are never manufactured in quantity.
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Large portions of life's disappointments are individuals who did not understand that they were so near achievement when they surrendered.
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To have a great idea, have a lot of them.
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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.
Thomas A. Edison
Youth doesn't take advice.
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What is a college? An institute of learning. What is a business? An institute of learning. Life, itself, is an institute of learning.
Thomas A. Edison
The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast
Thomas A. Edison
