Thomas A. Edison Quotes - Page 7

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• Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Motivational, Character, Men

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• When there's no experimenting there's no progress. Stop experimenting and you go backward. If anything goes wrong, experiment until you get to the very bottom of the trouble.

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  Progress, Anything Goes, Trouble

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• My main purpose in life is to make money so I can afford to go on creating more inventions.

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  Motivational, Creating, Purpose

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• There's a way to do it better - find it.

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  Positive, Business, Creativity

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• A failure teaches you that something can't be done-that way.

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  Failure, Done, Way

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• Being busy does not always mean real work.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Real, Mean, Infinite Intelligence

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

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• Youth doesn't take advice.

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  Advice, Youth

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• I can never pick up a thing without wishing to improve it.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Wish, Picks, I Can

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• To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Science, Imagination Creativity

  "Behavior-Based Robotics". Book by Ronald C. Arkin, 1998.

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• To my mind the old masters are not art; their value is in their scarcity.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Art, Philosophy, History

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• We shall have no better conditions in the future if we are satisfied with all those which we have at present.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Self Confidence, Design, Complacency

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• Nothing that's good works by itself, you've got to make the damn thing work.

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  Good Work, Damn, Damn Things

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• I've realized that most of my best ideas have followed a good night's sleep.

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  Good Night, Sleep, Night

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• I would rather have one man with enthusiasm working with me than ten who are complacent.

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  Men, Enthusiasm, Complacent

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• Negative results are just what I want. They’re just as valuable to me as positive results. I can never find the thing that does the job best until I find the ones that don’t.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Success, Jobs, Failure

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• Failure is really a matter of conceit. People don't work hard because, in their conceit, they imagine they'll succeed without ever making an effort. Most people believe that they'll wake up some day and find themselves rich. Actually, they've got it half right, because eventually they do wake up.

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  Believe, Hard Work, People

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• Sticking to it is the genius.

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  Children, Ignorance, Knowledge

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• All bibles are man-made.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Bible, Men, Religion

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• I am more of a sponge than an inventor. I absorb ideas from every source. I take half-matured schemes for mechanical development and make them practical. I am a sort of a middleman between the long-haired and impractical inventor and the hard-headed business man who measures all things in terms of dollars and cents. My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant but misdirected ideas of others.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Men, Ideas, Long

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• Genius is 1 percent inspiration, 99 percent perspiration.

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  Inspirational, Educational, Genius

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• Not only will atomic power be released, but someday we will harness the rise and fall of the tides and imprison the rays of the sun.

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  Fall, Tides, Sun

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• I've never made a mistake. I've only learned from experience.

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  Mistake, Past, Made

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• I'd put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don't have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Running, Nature, Hydrogen Fuel

  "Uncommon Friends : Life with Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Harvey Firestone, Alexis Carrel & Charles Lindbergh". Book by James Newton, 1987.

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• First be sure a thing is wanted or needed, then go ahead.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Firsts, Needed, Wanted

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• I have had a lot of success with failure

  Thomas A. Edison

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