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Success depends on how many experiments you can fit into 24 hours
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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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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I'll try anything...I'll even try Limburger cheese!
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I know of over 3,000 ways [that] a light bulb does not 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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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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I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
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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 was at the foot of my class.
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Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge. Remedies from chemicals will never stand in favor compared with the products of nature, the living cell of the plant, the final result of the rays of the sun, the mother of all life.
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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.
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Two per cent. is genius, and ninety-eight per cent. is hard work.
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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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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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Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. As a result, a genius is often a talented person who has simply done all of his homework.
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The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus and apply your mental and physical energies to the problem at hand - without growing weary. Because such thinking is often difficult, there seems to be no limit to which some people will go to avoid the effort and labor that is associated with it.
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