Thomas A. Edison Quotes - Page 6

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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.".

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  Steps, Problem, Discouraged

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• Everyone steals in commerce and industry. I've stolen a lot, myself. But I know how to steal! They don't know how to steal!

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  Stealing, Stolen, Commerce

  "Tesla: The Modern Sorcerer". Book by Daniel Blair Stewart, 1999.

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• I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious ideas of heaven and hell, of future life for individuals, or of a personal God.

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  Religious, Atheist, If There Is A God

  "Jesus : Myth Or Reality?". Book by Ian Curtis, 2006.

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• Friendship is the heaven of life.

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  Heaven

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• There is much more opportunity than there are people to see it.

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  Opportunity, People

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• The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast

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  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• I cannot believe in the immortality of the soul. No, all this talk of an existence for us, as individuals, beyond the grave is wrong. It is born of our tenacity of life - our desire to go on living - our dread of coming to an end.

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  Atheist, Believe, Soul

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• Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.

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  Inspirational, Positive, Business

  "Geek mythology and Nikola Tesla" by Rebekah Higgitt, www.theguardian.com. August 20, 2012.

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• I am a vegetarian as well as a passionate anti-alcoholic, because I can thus make better use of my brain.

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  Animal, Brain, Passionate

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• The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus and apply your mental and physical energies to the problem at hand - without growing weary. Because such thinking is often difficult, there seems to be no limit to which some people will go to avoid the effort and labor that is associated with it.

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  Motivational, Meaningful, Thinking

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• The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness... Unfortunately, many of life's failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. 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.

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  Hard Work, Adventure, Ideas

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• I remember that I was never able to get along at school. I was at the foot of the class.

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  Education, School, Class

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• Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly. The scope of thrift is limitless.

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  Time, Loss, Lost Friendship

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• The great trouble is that the preachers get the children from six to seven years of age and then it is almost impossible to do anything with them.

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  Children, Years, Religion

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• Unfortunately, there seems to be far more opportunity out there than ability.... We should remember that good fortune often happens when opportunity meets with preparation.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• I do not believe any type of religion should ever be introduced into the public schools of the United States.

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  Atheist, Believe, School

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• Consider data without prejudice.

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  Data, Prejudice

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• To those searching for truth -- not the truth of dogma and darkness but the truth brought by reason, search, examination, and inquiry, discipline is required. For faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction -- faith in fiction is a damnable false hope.

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  Faith, Discipline, Darkness

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• The very first thing an executive must have is a fine memory. Of course it does not follow that a man with a fine memory is necessarily a fine executive. But if he has the memory he has the first qualification, and if he has not the memory nothing else matters.

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  Memories, Men, Doe

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• The money one gets for selling one's soul is always spent in deadening one's conscience, so the net gain at the end of a lifetime is no greater than if the diabolic bargain had not been struck.

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  Animal, Soul, Gains

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• No, I haven't failed thousands of times. On the contrary, I have successfully eliminated thousands of ideas that do not work!

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  Inspirational, Ideas, Contrary

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

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  Ideas

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• X-rays ... I am afraid of them. I stopped experimenting with them two years ago, when I came near to losing my eyesight and Dally, my assistant practically lost the use of both of his arms.

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  Science, Two, Years

  "Edison Fears Hidden Perils of the X-Rays". "New York World" Newspaper, August 3, 1903.

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• Barring serious accidents, if you are not preoccupied with worry and you work hard, you can look forward to a reasonably lengthy existence.... Its not the hard work that kills, its the worrying that kills.

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  Motivational, Hard Work, Worry

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• Genius is not inspired. Inspiration is perspiration.

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  Inspiration, Hard Work, Science

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