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When down in the mouth, remember Jonah. He came out all right.
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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Thomas A. Edison
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Negative results are just what I want. They’re just as valuable to me as positive results. I can never find the thing that does the job best until I find the ones that don’t.
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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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Show me a completely contented person and I'll show you a failure.
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The radio craze will die out in time.
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The man who doesn’t make up his mind to cultivate the habit of thinking misses the greatest pleasure in life.
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Direct thought is not an attribute of feminity. In this, women are now centuries behind man.
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An idea is something that won't work unless you do.
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I never failed once. It just happened to be a 2000-step process.
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I have not failed. I have successfully discovered 1200 ideas that don't work.
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Invention is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration
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Because ideas have to be original only with regard to their adaptation to the problem at hand, I am always extremely interested in how others have used used them.
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Vision without execution is delusion.
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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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Keep on the lookout for novel ideas that others have used successfully. Your idea has to be original only in its adaptation to the problem you're working on.
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I didn't fail 1000 times. The light bulb was an invention with 1000 steps.
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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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Two per cent. is genius, and ninety-eight per cent. is hard 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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