Thomas A. Edison Quotes - Page 8

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• Smoking too much makes me nervous. Must lasso my natural tendency to acquire such habits. Holding heavy cigar constantly in my mouth has deformed my upper lip, it has a sort of Havana curl.

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  Smoking, Curls, Mouths

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• I am long on ideas, but short on time. I expect to live to be only about a hundred.

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  Inspirational, Life, Birthday

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• There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.

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  Peace, Fear, Spring

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• Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.

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  Positive, Mean Girls, Funny Inspirational

  "Artifacts : An Archaeologist's Year in Silicon Valley". Book by Christine Finn, 2001.

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• Keep on the lookout for novel ideas that others have used successfully. Your idea has to be original only in its adaptation to the problem you're working on.

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  Ideas, Problem, Adaptation

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• The first requisite of success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem without growing weary.

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  Success, Focus, Energy

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• I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

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  Funny, Success, Motivation

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• Large portions of life's disappointments are individuals who did not understand that they were so near achievement when they surrendered.

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  Disappointment, Achievement, Individual

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• It has been just so in all my inventions. The first step is an intuition-and comes with a burst, then difficulties arise. This thing that gives out and then that-"Bugs"as such little faults and difficulties are called show themselves and months of anxious watching, study and labor are requisite before commercial success-or failure-is certainly reached.

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  Success, Science, Giving

  Letter to Theodore Puskas, 18 Nov. 1878.

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• To have a great idea, have a lot of them.

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  Positive, Smart, Failure

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• Show me a completely contented person and I'll show you a failure.

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  Failure, Failing, Show Me

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• I never once failed at making a light bulb. I just found out 99 ways not to make one.

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  Light, Way, Found

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• Genius? Nothing! Sticking to it is the genius! Any other bright-minded fellow can accomplish just as much if he will stick like hell and remember nothing that's any good works by itself. You've got to make the damn thing work!...I failed my way to success.

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  Genius, Way, Sticks

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• I think work is the world's greatest fun.

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  Fun, Thinking, World

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• This problem, once solved, will be simple.

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  Simple, Problem

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• It is remarkable to what lengths people will go to avoid thought.

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  People, Length, Remarkable

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• We haven't failed. We now know a thousand things that won't work, so we are much closer to finding what will.

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  Educational, Thousand, Findings

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• Every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward

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  Perseverance, Determination, Failure

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• Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!

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  Faith, Courage, Father

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• Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and noises which the ordinary person does not hear.

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  Motivational, Sound, Ordinary

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• Surprises and reverses can serve as an incentive for great accomplishment. There are no rules here, we're just trying to accomplish something.

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  Motivational, Accomplishment, Trying

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• Inspiration can be found in a pile of junk. Sometimes, you can put it together with a good imagination and invent something.

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  Inspiration, Imagination, Together

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• If I had not had so much ambition and not tried to do so many things, I probably would have been happier, but less useful.

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  Ambition, Has Beens, Ifs

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• A lawsuit is the suicide of time.

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  Suicide, Lawsuit

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• The dove is my emblem.

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  Technology, Dove, Emblems

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