Thomas A. Edison Quotes

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  I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

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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.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• There is a better way for everything. Find it.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Way, Better Ways

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• Having a vision for what you want is not enough...Vision without execution is hallucination

  Thomas A. Edison

  Motivational, Entrepreneur, Vision

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• Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Funny, Life, Motivational

  "An Enemy Called Average". Book by John L. Mason, 1990.

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• When we learn how to store electricity, we will cease being apes ourselves; until then we are tailless orangutans. You see, we should utilize natural forces and thus get all of our power. Sunshine is a form of energy, and the winds and the tides are manifestations of energy. Do we use them? Oh, no! We burn up wood and coal, as renters burn up the front fence for fuel. We live like squatters, not as if we owned the property.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Sunshine, Wind, Energy

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• The successful person makes a habit of doing what the failing person doesn't like to do.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Success, Commitment, Action

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• Tomorrow Is My Exam But I Don’t Care Because A Single Sheet Of Paper Can’t Decide My Future

  Thomas A. Edison

  Paper, Care, Tomorrow

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• Success is 90% perspiration and 10% inspiration!

  Thomas A. Edison

  Business, Inspiration, Perspiration

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• I never view mistakes as failures. They are simply opportunities to find out what doesn't work.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Mistake, Failure, Opportunity

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• The injurious agent in cigarettes comes principally from the burning paper wrapper. The substance thereby formed is called "acrolein." It has a violent action on the nerve centers, producing degeneration of the cells of the brain, which is quite rapid among boys. Unlike most narcotics, this degeneration is permanent and uncontrollable. I employ no person who smokes cigarettes.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Science, Boys, Cells

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• The biggest failure of man is that he gives up before he realizes how close he was to success.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Sports, Giving Up, Men

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• The most necessary task of civilization is to teach people how to think. It should be the primary purpose of our public schools. The mind of a child is naturally active, it develops through exercise. Give a child plenty of exercise, for body and brain. The trouble with our way of educating is that it does not give elasticity to the mind. It casts the brain into a mold. It insists that the child must accept. It does not encourage original thought or reasoning, and it lays more stress on memory than observation.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Children, Memories, Stress

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• Never go to sleep
  without a request to your subconscious.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Sleep, Mind, Subconscious

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• A genius is a talented person who does his homework.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Ballet, Doe, Genius

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• The greatest invention in the world is the mind of a child.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Children, Imagination, Innovation

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• A diamond is a piece of coal that stuck to the job

  Thomas A. Edison

  Jobs, Coal, Pieces

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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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  Time, Humans, Human Beings

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• You can't realize your dreams unless you have one to begin with.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Dream, Goal, Realizing

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• I have far more respect for the person with a single idea who gets there than for the person with a thousand ideas who does nothing.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Motivational, Single

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• Before you reject an idea, find at least five good things about it.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Ideas, Imagination, Good Things

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• I didn't fail 1000 times. The light bulb was an invention with 1000 steps.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Light, Steps, Self Discipline

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• Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Wise, Wisdom

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• Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Motivational, Real

  Ford Times, Vol. 6, p. 136, 1912.

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• Be courageous! Have faith! Go forward.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Motivational, Courage, Have Faith

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