Thomas A. Edison Quotes - Page 4

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• Education isn't play--and it can't be made to look like play. It is hard, hard work. But it can be made interesting work.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Education, Hard Work, Play

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• As a cure for worrying, work is far better than whiskey. I always found that, if I began to worry, the best thing I could do was focus upon doing something useful and then work very hard at it. Soon, I would forget what was troubling me.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Motivational, Worry, Focus

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• A man’s best friend is a good wife.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Men, Wife

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• The beauty of a great idea lies in the art of using it.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Art, Lying, Ideas

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• Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Life, Peace, Honesty

  "Innovate Like Edison : The Five-Step System for Breakthrough Business Success". Book by Michael J. Gelb and Sarah Miller Caldicott, p. 67,

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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.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Religious, Atheist, If There Is A God

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

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• There is always a better way.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Motivational, Self Reliance, Way

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• Most of my ideas belonged to other people who never bothered to develop them.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Ideas, People, Bothered

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• Absorb ideas from every source.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Ideas, Source

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• I believe in the existence of a Supreme Intelligence pervading the Universe.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Believe, Existence, Supreme

  "Thomas A. Edison, Benefactor of Mankind: The Romantic Life Story of the World's Greatest Inventor". Book by Francis Trevelyan Miller, 1931.

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• The doctor of the future will no longer treat the human frame with drugs, but rather will cure and prevent disease with nutrition.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Motivational, Fitness, Health

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• What is a college? An institute of learning. What is a business? An institute of learning. Life, itself, is an institute of learning.

  Thomas A. Edison

  College, Never Stop Learning, Learning Life

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• The injurious agent in cigarettes comes principally from the burning paper wrapper. The substance thereby formed is called "acrolein." It has a violent action on the nerve centers, producing degeneration of the cells of the brain, which is quite rapid among boys. Unlike most narcotics, this degeneration is permanent and uncontrollable. I employ no person who smokes cigarettes.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Science, Boys, Cells

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• Somewhere between the ages of eleven and fifteen, the average child begins to suffer from an atrophy, the paralysis of curiosity and the suspension of the power to observe. The trouble, I should judge, to lie with the schools.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Children, Lying, School

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• The biggest failure of man is that he gives up before he realizes how close he was to success.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Sports, Giving Up, Men

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• When you become quiet, it just dawns on you

  Thomas A. Edison

  Dawn, Quiet

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• 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.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Motivational, Single

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• Show me a thoroughly satisfied man - and I will show you a failure.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Success, Educational, Failure

  "The Diary and Sundry Observations of Thomas Alva Edison". Book by Thomas A. Edison, 1948.

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• Today, I am wondering what would have happened to me by now, if, fifty years ago, some fluent talker had converted me to the theory of the eight-hour day and convinced me that it was not fair to my fellow-workers to put forth my best efforts in my work? I am glad that the eight-hour day had not been invented when I was a young man. If my life had been made up of eight-hour days, I don't believe I could have accomplished a great deal.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Life, Country, Work

  "Along Broadway: The Edison Musical Magazine".

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• There seems to be no limit to which some men will go to avoid the labor of thinking. Thinking is hard work.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Hard Work, Men, Thinking

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• A reporter called on Edison to interview him about a substitute for lead in the manufacture of storage batteries that the scientist was seeking. Edison informed the man that he had made 20,000 experiments but none had worked. "Aren't you discouraged by all this waste of effort?" the reporter asked. Edison: "Waste! There's nothing wasted. I have discovered 20,000 things that won't work."

  Thomas A. Edison

  Work, Men, Discovery

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• A teacher sent the following note home with a six-year-old boy 'He is too stupid to learn.' That boy was Thomas A. Edison.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Teacher, Stupid, Home

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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.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Motivational, Meaningful, Thinking

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• I never did a day's work in my life, it was all fun.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Life, Fun

  "Edison & Ford Quote Book". Book by Edison & Ford Winter Estates, 2003.

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• Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Motivational, Failure

  "The Diary and Sundry Observations of Thomas Alva Edison". Book by Thomas A. Edison, 1948.

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