Thomas A. Edison Quotes - Page 4

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• If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "Motivating Humans : Goals, Emotions, and Personal Agency Beliefs". Book by Martin E. Ford, 1992.

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• IF PARENTS PASS ENTHUSIASM ALONG TO THEIR CHILDREN, THEY WILL LEAVE THEM AN ESTATE OF INCALCULABLE VALUE

  Thomas A. Edison

  Motivational, Family, Education

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• As a cure for worrying, work is far better than whiskey. I always found that, if I began to worry, the best thing I could do was focus upon doing something useful and then work very hard at it. Soon, I would forget what was troubling me.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Motivational, Worry, Focus

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• What is a college? An institute of learning. What is a business? An institute of learning. Life, itself, is an institute of learning.

  Thomas A. Edison

  College, Never Stop Learning, Learning Life

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• Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Life, Peace, Honesty

  "Innovate Like Edison : The Five-Step System for Breakthrough Business Success". Book by Michael J. Gelb and Sarah Miller Caldicott, p. 67,

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• Most of my ideas belonged to other people who never bothered to develop them.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Ideas, People, Bothered

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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.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Motivational, Fitness, Health

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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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• There seems to be no limit to which some men will go to avoid the labor of thinking. Thinking is hard work.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Hard Work, Men, Thinking

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• I never did a day's work in my life, it was all fun.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Life, Fun

  "Edison & Ford Quote Book". Book by Edison & Ford Winter Estates, 2003.

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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

  Spiritual, Discovery, Miracle

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• Today, I am wondering what would have happened to me by now, if, fifty years ago, some fluent talker had converted me to the theory of the eight-hour day and convinced me that it was not fair to my fellow-workers to put forth my best efforts in my work? I am glad that the eight-hour day had not been invented when I was a young man. If my life had been made up of eight-hour days, I don't believe I could have accomplished a great deal.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Life, Country, Work

  "Along Broadway: The Edison Musical Magazine".

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• Great ideas originate in the muscles.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Life, Motivation, Work

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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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• Absorb ideas from every source.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Ideas, Source

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• I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Technology, Thinking, Might

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• Personally, I enjoy working about 18 hours a day. Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sleep

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• There is no limit to which a man will not go to avoid thinking.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Men, Thinking, Limits

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• A teacher sent the following note home with a six-year-old boy 'He is too stupid to learn.' That boy was Thomas A. Edison.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Teacher, Stupid, Home

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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.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Motivational, Couple, Men

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• There is always a better way.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Motivational, Self Reliance, Way

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• Success is the result of hard work.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Hard Work, Mathematics, Results

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• Show me a thoroughly satisfied man - and I will show you a failure.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Success, Educational, Failure

  "The Diary and Sundry Observations of Thomas Alva Edison". Book by Thomas A. Edison, 1948.

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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

  Thomas A. Edison

  Trying, Doe, Way

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• Success depends on how many experiments you can fit into 24 hours

  Thomas A. Edison

  Fit, Hours, Experiments

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