Thomas A. Edison Quotes - Page 5

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• I make more mistakes than anyone else I know, and sooner or later, I patent most of them.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Funny Inspirational, Mistake, Creativity

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• The strength of the Constitution, lies in the will of the people to defend it.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Lying, People, Liberty

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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.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Thinking, Imagination, Solitude

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• To get a great idea, come up with lots of them.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Creativity, Play, Ideas

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• Education isn't play--and it can't be made to look like play. It is hard, hard work. But it can be made interesting work.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Education, Hard Work, Play

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• I failed my way to success.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Motivational, Fear

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• There is time for everything.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Motivational, Time, Peace

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• I believe in the existence of a Supreme Intelligence pervading the Universe.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Believe, Existence, Supreme

  "Thomas A. Edison, Benefactor of Mankind: The Romantic Life Story of the World's Greatest Inventor". Book by Francis Trevelyan Miller, 1931.

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• Never Say I Failed 99 Times, Say I Discovered 99 Ways Which Causes Failure!

  Thomas A. Edison

  Way, Causes

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• There is far more danger in public than in private monopoly, for when Government goes into business it can always shift its losses to the taxpayers. Government never makes ends meetand that is the first requisite of business.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Business, Loss, Government

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• I find out what the world needs. Then I go ahead and try to invent it

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Science, Trying

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• A reporter called on Edison to interview him about a substitute for lead in the manufacture of storage batteries that the scientist was seeking. Edison informed the man that he had made 20,000 experiments but none had worked. "Aren't you discouraged by all this waste of effort?" the reporter asked. Edison: "Waste! There's nothing wasted. I have discovered 20,000 things that won't work."

  Thomas A. Edison

  Work, Men, Discovery

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• The value of an idea lies in the using of it.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Business, Good Life, Lying

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• Sleep is like a drug. Take too much at a time and it makes you dopey. You lose time and opportunities.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Sleep, Opportunity, Drug

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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.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Perseverance, Life Lesson

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• When you become quiet, it just dawns on you

  Thomas A. Edison

  Dawn, Quiet

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• Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Motivational, Failure

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

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• Somewhere between the ages of eleven and fifteen, the average child begins to suffer from an atrophy, the paralysis of curiosity and the suspension of the power to observe. The trouble, I should judge, to lie with the schools.

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  Children, Lying, School

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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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• I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others... I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Motivational, Creativity

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• I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Friendship, Positive

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• An idea is something that won't work unless you do.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Ideas

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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.".

  Thomas A. Edison

  Steps, Problem, Discouraged

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• The stomach is the only part of man which can be fully satisfied. The yearning of man's brain for new knowledge and experience and for more pleasant and comfortable surroundings never can be completely met. It is an appetite which cannot be appeased.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Men, Brain, Surroundings

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• My mother was the making of me. She was so true and so sure of me, I felt that I had someone to live for - someone I must not disappoint. The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Mom, Mother, Appreciation

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