Thomas A. Edison Quotes - Page 6

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• Sleep is like a drug. Take too much at a time and it makes you dopey. You lose time and opportunities.

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  Sleep, Opportunity, Drug

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• Barring serious accidents, if you are not preoccupied with worry and you work hard, you can look forward to a reasonably lengthy existence.... Its not the hard work that kills, its the worrying that kills.

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  Motivational, Hard Work, Worry

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• There is time for everything.

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  Motivational, Time, Peace

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• No, I haven't failed thousands of times. On the contrary, I have successfully eliminated thousands of ideas that do not work!

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  Inspirational, Ideas, Contrary

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• The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work.

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  Success, Hard Work, Opportunity

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• Not only will atomic power be released, but someday we will harness the rise and fall of the tides and imprison the rays of the sun.

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  Fall, Tides, Sun

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• When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes.

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  Inspirational, Perseverance, Life Lesson

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• The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness... Unfortunately, many of life's failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. 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.

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  Hard Work, Adventure, Ideas

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• There's a way to do it better - find it.

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  Positive, Business, Creativity

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• Friendship is the heaven of life.

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  Heaven

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• When there's no experimenting there's no progress. Stop experimenting and you go backward. If anything goes wrong, experiment until you get to the very bottom of the trouble.

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  Progress, Anything Goes, Trouble

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• Failure is really a matter of conceit. People don't work hard because, in their conceit, they imagine they'll succeed without ever making an effort. Most people believe that they'll wake up some day and find themselves rich. Actually, they've got it half right, because eventually they do wake up.

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  Believe, Hard Work, People

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• I would rather have one man with enthusiasm working with me than ten who are complacent.

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  Men, Enthusiasm, Complacent

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• Sticking to it is the genius.

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  Children, Ignorance, Knowledge

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• The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast

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  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• To my mind the old masters are not art; their value is in their scarcity.

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  Art, Philosophy, History

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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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• Being busy does not always mean real work.

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  Real, Mean, Infinite Intelligence

  Ford Times, Volume 6 (p. 136), 1912.

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• I am 67, but I'm not too old to make a fresh start.

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  Life, Motivational, Fresh Start

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• To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.

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  Inspirational, Science, Imagination Creativity

  "Behavior-Based Robotics". Book by Ronald C. Arkin, 1998.

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• Negative results are just what I want. They’re just as valuable to me as positive results. I can never find the thing that does the job best until I find the ones that don’t.

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  Success, Jobs, Failure

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• Genius is 1 percent inspiration, 99 percent perspiration.

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  Inspirational, Educational, Genius

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• Nothing that's good works by itself, you've got to make the damn thing work.

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  Good Work, Damn, Damn Things

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• We shall have no better conditions in the future if we are satisfied with all those which we have at present.

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  Self Confidence, Design, Complacency

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• Youth doesn't take advice.

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  Advice, Youth

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