Thomas A. Edison Quotes - Page 10

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• People who will not turn a shovel full of dirt on the project (Muscle Shoals Dam) nor contribute a pound of material, will collect more money from the United States than will the People who supply all the material and do all the work. This is the terrible thing about interest.

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  People, United States, Dams

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• There is a better way to do it - Find it!

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  Way, Better Ways

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• I owe my success to the fact that I never had a clock in my workroom. Seventy-five of us worked twenty hours every day and slept only four hours - and thrived on it.

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  Twenties, Four, Facts

  "Defending and Parenting Children Who Learn Differently : Lessons from Edison's Mother". Book by Scott Teel, 2007.

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• Genius? Nothing! Sticking to it is the genius! ...
  I've failed my way to success.

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  Genius, Way, My Way

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• Most of the exercise I get is from standing and walking around laboratory tables all day. I derive more benefit and entertainment from this than some of my friends and competitors get from playing games like golf.

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  Motivational, Exercise, Golf

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• I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor....'

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  Motivational, Sponges, Inventor

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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.

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  Believe, Men, Mind

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• They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has, but I notice he usually blunders forward.

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  Failure, President, Wilson

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• The inventor can't do it all, you've got to change people. We have an enormous capacity to invent super-machinery. But our desire to install the device is weak. Human inertia is the problem, not invention. Something in man makes him resist change.

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  Men, People, Desire

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• In 'Common Sense' Paine flared forth with a document so powerful that the Revolution became inevitable. Washington recognized the difference, and in his calm way said that matters never could be the same again.

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  Powerful, Differences, Common Sense

  "The Philosophy of Paine" by Thomas A. Edison, June 7, 1925.

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• Seeming to do is not doing.

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  Seeming

  Ford Times, Volume 6, (p. 136), 1912.

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• The radio craze will die out in time.

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  Radio, Craze, Dies

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• I have not failed 700 times. I have not failed once. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.

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  Inspirational, Failure, Way

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• His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.

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  Positive, Inspiration, Ninety Nine

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• Nature made us - nature did it all - not the gods of the religions.

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  Made

  "'No Immortality of the Soul' says Thomas A. Edison. In Fact, He Doesn't Believe There Is a Soul - Human Beings Only an Aggregate of Cells and the Brain Only a Wonderful Machine, Says Wizard of Electricity". New York Times, October 2, 1910.

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• Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.

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  Motivational, Education, Work

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• Nearly every man who develops an idea works it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then he gets discouraged. That's not the place to become discouraged.

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  Motivational, Positive, Perseverance

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• I never failed once. It just happened to be a 2000-step process.

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  Inspirational, Patience, Perseverance

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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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  Names, Ideas, Trying

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• There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

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  Courage, Opportunity, Ability

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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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  Trials, Invention, Anything Worth Doing

  "A Photographic Talk with Edison". Interview with Theodore Dreiser, Success Magazine, February 1898.

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• I speak without exaggeration when I say that I have constructed 3,000 different theories in connection with the electric light, each one of them reasonable and apparently likely to be true. Yet only in two cases did my experiments prove the truth of my theory. My chief difficulty was in constructing the carbon filament... Every quarter of the globe was ransacked by my agents, and all sorts of the queerest materials used, until finally the shred of bamboo, now utilized by us, was settled upon.

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  Light, Two, Connections

  "Talks with Edison". Harper's Magazine, Volume 80, February 1890.

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• I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it. I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others. I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it. I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill. The dove is my emblem.

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  Technology, Thinking, Giving

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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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  Adventure, Work Out, Lines

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• After we had conducted thousands of experiments on a certain project without solving the problem, one of my associates, after we had conducted the crowning experiment and it had proved a failure, expressed discouragement and disgust over our having failed to find out anything. I cheerily assured him that we had learned something. For we had learned for a certainty that the thing couldnt be done that way, and that we would have to try some other way.

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  Trying, Done, Way

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