Thomas A. Edison Quotes - Page 8

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• Keep on the lookout for novel ideas that others have used successfully. Your idea has to be original only in its adaptation to the problem you're working on.

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  Ideas, Problem, Adaptation

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• Great ideas originate in the muscles.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Life, Motivation, Work

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• There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.

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  Peace, Fear, Spring

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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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• It is remarkable to what lengths people will go to avoid thought.

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  People, Length, Remarkable

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• I have had a lot of success with failure

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• I think work is the world's greatest fun.

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  Fun, Thinking, World

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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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• Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.

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  Positive, Mean Girls, Funny Inspirational

  "Artifacts : An Archaeologist's Year in Silicon Valley". Book by Christine Finn, 2001.

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• There is much more opportunity than there are people to see it.

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  Opportunity, People

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• Genius? Nothing! Sticking to it is the genius! Any other bright-minded fellow can accomplish just as much if he will stick like hell and remember nothing that's any good works by itself. You've got to make the damn thing work!...I failed my way to success.

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  Genius, Way, Sticks

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• Inspiration can be found in a pile of junk. Sometimes, you can put it together with a good imagination and invent something.

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  Inspiration, Imagination, Together

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• Large portions of life's disappointments are individuals who did not understand that they were so near achievement when they surrendered.

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  Disappointment, Achievement, Individual

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• Surprises and reverses can serve as an incentive for great accomplishment. There are no rules here, we're just trying to accomplish something.

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  Motivational, Accomplishment, Trying

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• To have a great idea, have a lot of them.

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  Positive, Smart, Failure

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• The first requisite of success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem without growing weary.

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  Success, Focus, Energy

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• If I had not had so much ambition and not tried to do so many things, I probably would have been happier, but less useful.

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  Ambition, Has Beens, Ifs

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• Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and noises which the ordinary person does not hear.

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  Motivational, Sound, Ordinary

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• Everyone steals in commerce and industry. I've stolen a lot, myself. But I know how to steal! They don't know how to steal!

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  Stealing, Stolen, Commerce

  "Tesla: The Modern Sorcerer". Book by Daniel Blair Stewart, 1999.

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• We haven't failed. We now know a thousand things that won't work, so we are much closer to finding what will.

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  Educational, Thousand, Findings

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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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• I never once failed at making a light bulb. I just found out 99 ways not to make one.

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  Light, Way, Found

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• Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!

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  Faith, Courage, Father

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• My main purpose in life is to make money so I can afford to go on creating more inventions.

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  Motivational, Creating, Purpose

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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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