Thomas A. Edison Quotes

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  I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

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  Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• I never view mistakes as failures. They are simply opportunities to find out what doesn't work.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Mistake, Failure, Opportunity

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• Having a vision for what you want is not enough...Vision without execution is hallucination

  Thomas A. Edison

  Motivational, Entrepreneur, Vision

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• There is a better way for everything. Find it.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Way, Better Ways

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• Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Funny, Life, Motivational

  "An Enemy Called Average". Book by John L. Mason, 1990.

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• Each time you fail, you have eliminated another wrong option.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Failure, Failing

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• Success is 90% perspiration and 10% inspiration!

  Thomas A. Edison

  Business, Inspiration, Perspiration

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• I didn't fail 1000 times. The light bulb was an invention with 1000 steps.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Light, Steps, Self Discipline

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• Five percent of the people think; ten percent of the people think they think; and the other eighty-five percent would rather die than think.

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  Thinking, People, Willful Ignorance

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• You can't realize your dreams unless you have one to begin with.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Dream, Goal, Realizing

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• When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this - you haven't.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Karma, Running

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• The secret of success is focus of purpose.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Focus, Secret, Purpose

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• Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "From Telegraph to Light Bulb with Thomas Edison". Book by Deborah Headstrom-Page, 2007.

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• Be courageous! Have faith! Go forward.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Motivational, Courage, Have Faith

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• A genius is a talented person who does his homework.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Ballet, Doe, Genius

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• The First 40 hours of work per week are for survival. Everything after that is for success.

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  Survival, Firsts, Week

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• The successful person makes a habit of doing what the failing person doesn't like to do.

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  Success, Commitment, Action

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• Time is really the only capital that any human being has, and the only thing he can't afford to lose.

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  Time, Humans, Human Beings

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• The most necessary task of civilization is to teach people how to think. It should be the primary purpose of our public schools. The mind of a child is naturally active, it develops through exercise. Give a child plenty of exercise, for body and brain. The trouble with our way of educating is that it does not give elasticity to the mind. It casts the brain into a mold. It insists that the child must accept. It does not encourage original thought or reasoning, and it lays more stress on memory than observation.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Children, Memories, Stress

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• I owe my success to the fact that I never had a clock in my workroom.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Defending and Parenting Children Who Learn Differently : Lessons from Edison's Mother". Book by Scott Teel, 2007.

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• Never go to sleep
  without a request to your subconscious.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Sleep, Mind, Subconscious

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• I have better use for my brain than to poison it with alcohol. To put alcohol in the human brain is like putting sand in the bearings of an engine.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Alcohol, Brain, Poison

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• Tomorrow Is My Exam But I Don’t Care Because A Single Sheet Of Paper Can’t Decide My Future

  Thomas A. Edison

  Paper, Care, Tomorrow

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• Vision without execution is delusion.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Positive, Vision, Execution

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