Thomas A. Edison Quotes - Page 5

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• The strength of the Constitution, lies in the will of the people to defend it.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Lying, People, Liberty

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• There is far more danger in public than in private monopoly, for when Government goes into business it can always shift its losses to the taxpayers. Government never makes ends meetand that is the first requisite of business.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Business, Loss, Government

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• I find out what the world needs. Then I go ahead and try to invent it

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Science, Trying

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• Personally, I enjoy working about 18 hours a day. Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sleep

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• The doctor of the future will give no medication, but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, diet and in the cause and prevention of disease. ~

  Thomas A. Edison

  Life, Motivational, Fitness

  Aphorism

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• I failed my way to success.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Motivational, Fear

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• They were not failures, they were new found ways of what does not work
  
  
  
  
  
  
  "I can accept failure,everyonefails at something. But I can't accept not trying

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  Trying, Doe, Way

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• Never Say I Failed 99 Times, Say I Discovered 99 Ways Which Causes Failure!

  Thomas A. Edison

  Way, Causes

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• Success is the result of hard work.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Hard Work, Mathematics, Results

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• Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Motivational, Real

  Ford Times, Vol. 6, p. 136, 1912.

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• I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others... I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Creativity

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• Success depends on how many experiments you can fit into 24 hours

  Thomas A. Edison

  Fit, Hours, Experiments

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• I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.

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  Inspirational, Friendship, Positive

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• The value of an idea lies in the using of it.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Business, Good Life, Lying

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• I make more mistakes than anyone else I know, and sooner or later, I patent most of them.

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  Funny Inspirational, Mistake, Creativity

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• Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly. The scope of thrift is limitless.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Time, Loss, Lost Friendship

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• To do much clear thinking a person must arrange for regular periods of solitude when they can concentrate and indulge the imagination without distraction.

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  Thinking, Imagination, Solitude

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• From his neck down a man is worth a couple of dollars a day, from his neck up he is worth anything that his brain can produce.

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  Motivational, Couple, Men

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• To get a great idea, come up with lots of them.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Creativity, Play, Ideas

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• Mr. Edison worked endlessly on a problem, using the method of elimination. If a person asked him if he were discouraged because so many attempts proved unavailing, he would say, "No, I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.".

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  Steps, Problem, Discouraged

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

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  Wish, Picks, I Can

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• My mother was the making of me. She was so true and so sure of me, I felt that I had someone to live for - someone I must not disappoint. The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me.

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  Mom, Mother, Appreciation

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• I am a vegetarian as well as a passionate anti-alcoholic, because I can thus make better use of my brain.

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  Animal, Brain, Passionate

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• I cannot believe in the immortality of the soul. No, all this talk of an existence for us, as individuals, beyond the grave is wrong. It is born of our tenacity of life - our desire to go on living - our dread of coming to an end.

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  Atheist, Believe, Soul

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• I remember that I was never able to get along at school. I was at the foot of the class.

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  Education, School, Class

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