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Genius is 99% perspiration and 1% inspiration.
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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Mr. Edison worked endlessly on a problem, using the method of elimination. If a person asked him if he were discouraged because so many attempts proved unavailing, he would say, No, I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward..
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Remember, life is all what you focus on. Learn lessons and keep moving forward towards your goals and dreams... I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
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Time is really the only capital that any human being has, and the only thing he can't afford to lose.
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Never Say I Failed 99 Times, Say I Discovered 99 Ways Which Causes Failure!
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A failure teaches you that something can't be done-that way.
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I start where the last man left off. What the mind of man can conceive and believe, the mind of a man can achieve.
Thomas A. Edison
The only thing I use my body for is to carry my brain around.
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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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To do much clear thinking a person must arrange for regular periods of solitude when they can concentrate and indulge the imagination without distraction.
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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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I didn't fail 1000 times. The light bulb was an invention with 1000 steps.
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There is no limit to which a man will not go to avoid thinking.
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Of all my inventions, I liked the phonograph best
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Absorb ideas from every source.
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My mother was the making of me.
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An average American loves his family. If he has any love left over for some other person, he generally selects Mark Twain.
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The greatest discoveries will be along spiritual lines. This is the field where miracles are going to happen. Spiritual power is the greatest underdeveloped power and has the greatest future.
Thomas A. Edison
I find out what the world needs. Then I go ahead and try to invent it
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I am 67, but I'm not too old to make a fresh start.
Thomas A. Edison
Let the public throw bouquets to the inventors and in time we will all be happy.
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