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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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Thomas A. Edison
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I would construct and work along various lines until I found them untenable. When one theory was discarded, I developed another at once. I realized very early that this was the only possible way for me to work out all the problems.
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The body is a community made up of its innumerable cells or inhabitants.
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I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come indirectly through accident, except the phonograph. No, when I have, fully decided that a result is worth getting, I go about it, and make trial after trial, until it comes.
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We will make electricity so cheap that only the rich will burn candles.
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Show me a thoroughly satisfied man - and I will show you a failure.
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The doctor of the future will no longer treat the human frame with drugs, but rather will cure and prevent disease with nutrition.
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Work while others are wishing.
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Genius? Nothing! Sticking to it is the genius! Any other bright-minded fellow can accomplish just as much if he will stick like hell and remember nothing that's any good works by itself. You've got to make the damn thing work!...I failed my way to success.
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I have not failed. I have successfully discovered 1200 ideas that don't work.
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From his neck down a man is worth a couple of dollars a day, from his neck up he is worth anything that his brain can produce.
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Vision without execution is delusion.
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Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
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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 not overly impressed by the great names and reputations of those who might be trying to beat me to an invention. It's their 'ideas' that appeal to me. I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor
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I did not fail two thousand times. I merely found two thousand ways not to make a lightbulb.
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The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.
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We haven't failed. We now know a thousand things that won't work, so we are much closer to finding what will.
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To get a great idea, come up with lots of them.
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We are striking it big in the electric light, better than my vivid imagination first conceived. Where this thing is going to stop Lord only knows.
Thomas A. Edison
Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.
Thomas A. Edison
