Thomas A. Edison Quotes - Page 9

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• This problem, once solved, will be simple.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Simple, Problem

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• For faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction - faith in fiction is a damnable false hope.

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  Religious, Fiction, May

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• I know this world is ruled by Infinite Intelligence. It required Infinite Intelligence to create it and it requires Infinite Intelligence to keep it on its course ... It is mathematical in its precision.

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  God, Infinite Intelligence, World

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• What a man's mind can create, man's character can control.

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  Character, Angel, Men

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• First, study the present construction. Second, ask for all past experiences ...study and read everything you can on the subject.

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  Past, Firsts, Study

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• Two per cent. is genius, and ninety-eight per cent. is hard work.

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  Hard Work, Science, Eight

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• I start where the last man left off.

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  Inspirational, Positive, Men

  "Makers of the Modern World : The Lives of Ninety-two Writers, Artists, Scientists, Statesmen, Inventors, Philosophers, Composers, and Other Creators who Formed the Pattern of Our Century". Book by Louis Untermeyer, 1955.

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• Every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward

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  Perseverance, Determination, Failure

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• There is a better way to do it - Find it!

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  Way, Better Ways

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• The inventor can't do it all, you've got to change people. We have an enormous capacity to invent super-machinery. But our desire to install the device is weak. Human inertia is the problem, not invention. Something in man makes him resist change.

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  Men, People, Desire

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• Focus on how the end-user customers perceive the impact of your innovation - rather than on how you, the innovators, perceive it.

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  Impact, Focus, Innovation

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• We have merely scratched the surface of the store of knowledge which will come to us. I believe that we are now, a-tremble on the verge of vast discoveries - discoveries so wondrously important they will upset the present trend of human thought and start it along completely new lines .

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  Motivational, Believe, Discovery

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• Most of the exercise I get is from standing and walking around laboratory tables all day. I derive more benefit and entertainment from this than some of my friends and competitors get from playing games like golf.

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  Motivational, Exercise, Golf

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• I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor....'

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  Motivational, Sponges, Inventor

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• During all those years of experimentation and research, I never once made a discovery. All my work was deductive, and the results I achieved were those of invention, pure and simple. I would construct a theory and work on its lines until I found it was untenable. Then it would be discarded at once and another theory evolved. This was the only possible way for me to work out the problem.

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  Simple, Discovery, Years

  "Talks with Edison". Harper's Magazine, Volume 80, February 1890.

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• It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.

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  Effectiveness, People, Effort

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• The only thing I use my body for is to carry my brain around.

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  Humor, Brain, Use

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• When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.

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  Way, Martial Arts

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• Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "Thomas Alva Edison : Sixty Years of an Inventor's Life". Book by Francis Arthur Jones, 1908.

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• The radio craze will die out in time.

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  Radio, Craze, Dies

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• Genius defined: of inspiration 1% percent, of perspiration, 99%.

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  Inspiration, Genius, Percent

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• If I could solve all the problems myself, I would.

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  Teamwork, Team Work, Collaboration

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• I am not overly impressed by the great names and reputations of those who might be trying to beat me to an invention. It's their 'ideas' that appeal to me. I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor

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  Names, Ideas, Trying

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• In 'Common Sense' Paine flared forth with a document so powerful that the Revolution became inevitable. Washington recognized the difference, and in his calm way said that matters never could be the same again.

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  Powerful, Differences, Common Sense

  "The Philosophy of Paine" by Thomas A. Edison, June 7, 1925.

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• They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has, but I notice he usually blunders forward.

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  Failure, President, Wilson

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