Thomas A. Edison Quotes - Page 9

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• The body is a community made up of its innumerable cells or inhabitants.

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  Cells, Community, Body

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• What a man's mind can create, man's character can control.

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  Character, Angel, Men

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• I know this world is ruled by Infinite Intelligence. It required Infinite Intelligence to create it and it requires Infinite Intelligence to keep it on its course ... It is mathematical in its precision.

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  God, Infinite Intelligence, World

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• I start where the last man left off.

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  Inspirational, Positive, Men

  "Makers of the Modern World : The Lives of Ninety-two Writers, Artists, Scientists, Statesmen, Inventors, Philosophers, Composers, and Other Creators who Formed the Pattern of Our Century". Book by Louis Untermeyer, 1955.

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• I am much less interested in what is called God's word than in God's deeds. All bibles are man-made.

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  Men, Deeds, Made

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• During all those years of experimentation and research, I never once made a discovery. All my work was deductive, and the results I achieved were those of invention, pure and simple. I would construct a theory and work on its lines until I found it was untenable. Then it would be discarded at once and another theory evolved. This was the only possible way for me to work out the problem.

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  Simple, Discovery, Years

  "Talks with Edison". Harper's Magazine, Volume 80, February 1890.

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• First, study the present construction. Second, ask for all past experiences ...study and read everything you can on the subject.

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  Past, Firsts, Study

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• Two per cent. is genius, and ninety-eight per cent. is hard work.

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  Hard Work, Science, Eight

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• There cannot be overproduction of anything which men and women want. And their wants are unlimited, except by the size of their stomachs.

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  Men, Want, Size

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• 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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  Religious, Fiction, May

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• Life's most soothing things are a child's goodnight and sweet music.

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  Motivational, Sweet, Children

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• The real measure of success is the number of experiments that can be crowded into 24 hours.

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  Success, Real, Numbers

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• Focus on how the end-user customers perceive the impact of your innovation - rather than on how you, the innovators, perceive it.

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  Impact, Focus, Innovation

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• When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.

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  Way, Martial Arts

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• I did not fail two thousand times. I merely found two thousand ways not to make a lightbulb.

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  Two, Way, Failing

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• In creating technology for ourselves we created it for the world.

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  Wisdom, Technology, Creating

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• Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "Thomas Alva Edison : Sixty Years of an Inventor's Life". Book by Francis Arthur Jones, 1908.

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• Genius defined: of inspiration 1% percent, of perspiration, 99%.

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  Inspiration, Genius, Percent

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• The only thing I use my body for is to carry my brain around.

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  Humor, Brain, Use

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• I try not to invent things that people don't need.

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  People, Trying, Needs

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• If I could solve all the problems myself, I would.

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  Teamwork, Team Work, Collaboration

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• We have merely scratched the surface of the store of knowledge which will come to us. I believe that we are now, a-tremble on the verge of vast discoveries - discoveries so wondrously important they will upset the present trend of human thought and start it along completely new lines .

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  Motivational, Believe, Discovery

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• It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.

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  Effectiveness, People, Effort

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• Results? Why, man, I have gotten lots of results! If I find 10,000 ways something won't work, I haven't failed. I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is often a step forward.

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  Motivational, Suicidal, Men

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• Because I readily absorb ideas from every source - frequently starting where the last person left off - I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.

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  Motivational, Thinking, Ideas

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