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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
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 am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor....'
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X-rays ... I am afraid of them. I stopped experimenting with them two years ago, when I came near to losing my eyesight and Dally, my assistant practically lost the use of both of his arms.
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Work while others are wishing.
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Show me a completely contented person and I'll show you a failure.
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They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has, but I notice he usually blunders forward.
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I am afraid of radium and polonium ... I don't want to monkey with them.
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I make more mistakes than anyone else I know, and sooner or later, I patent most of them.
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Consider data without prejudice.
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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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Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
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Surprises and reverses can serve as an incentive for great accomplishment. There are no rules here, we're just trying to accomplish something.
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I know this world is ruled by Infinite Intelligence. It required Infinite Intelligence to create it and it requires Infinite Intelligence to keep it on its course ... It is mathematical in its precision.
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I've realized that most of my best ideas have followed a good night's sleep.
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To my mind the old masters are not art their value is in their scarcity.
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I owe my success to the fact that I never had a clock in my workroom.
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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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