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Thomas A. Edison
American
Inventor
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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.
Thomas A. Edison,
American
Inventor
#People
#Work
#Reason
#Opportunity
#Hard work
The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around.
Thomas A. Edison,
American
Inventor
#Body
The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.
Thomas A. Edison,
American
Inventor
#Thinking
#Solitude
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,
American
Inventor
#Will
#Man
#Failure
#First
#Necessity
#Progress
#Discontent
There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking.
Thomas A. Edison,
American
Inventor
#Will
#Thinking
#Man
#Labor
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
Thomas A. Edison,
American
Inventor
Religion is all bunk.
Thomas A. Edison,
American
Inventor
#Religion
Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
Thomas A. Edison,
American
Inventor
#Work
#Man
#Results
There is no substitute for hard work.
Thomas A. Edison,
American
Inventor
#Work
#Hard work
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.
Thomas A. Edison,
American
Inventor
#Will
#Death
#Day
#War
#Science
#Man
#Order
#Force
#Spring
#Machine
There's a way to do it better - find it.
Thomas A. Edison,
American
Inventor
They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has, but I notice he usually blunders forward.
Thomas A. Edison,
American
Inventor
#President
To have a great idea, have a lot of them.
Thomas A. Edison,
American
Inventor
#Idea
To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
Thomas A. Edison,
American
Inventor
#Imagination
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
Thomas A. Edison,
American
Inventor
#Time
#Succeed
#Lies
#Weakness
#Giving
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,
American
Inventor
#Time
#Will
#Ability
#Question
#Waste
#Loss
Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas A. Edison,
American
Inventor
#Will
#Man
#Failure
What a man's mind can create, man's character can control.
Thomas A. Edison,
American
Inventor
#Character
#Man
#Mind
#Control
What you are will show in what you do.
Thomas A. Edison,
American
Inventor
#Will
When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes.
Thomas A. Edison,
American
Inventor
#Result
#Worth
Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have.
Thomas A. Edison,
American
Inventor
#Worth
To my mind the old masters are not art; their value is in their scarcity.
Thomas A. Edison,
American
Inventor
#Art
#Old
#Mind
#Value
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
Thomas A. Edison,
American
Inventor
#Work
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Thomas A. Edison,
American
Inventor
#People
#Work
#Opportunity
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!
Thomas A. Edison,
American
Inventor
#America
#Business
#Fathers
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,
American
Inventor
#Work
#Being
#Purpose
#Production
#Accomplishment
#Planning
#Intelligence
Discontent is the first necessity of progress.
Thomas A. Edison,
American
Inventor
#First
#Necessity
#Progress
#Discontent
Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.
Thomas A. Edison,
American
Inventor
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
Thomas A. Edison,
American
Inventor
#Genius
#Inspiration
Great ideas originate in the muscles.
Thomas A. Edison,
American
Inventor
#Ideas
Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.
Thomas A. Edison,
American
Inventor
#Hell
#Trying
#Rules
His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.
Thomas A. Edison,
American
Inventor
#Content
#Genius
#Inspiration
I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
Thomas A. Edison,
American
Inventor
#Weapons
#Fact
The body is a community made up of its innumerable cells or inhabitants.
Thomas A. Edison,
American
Inventor
#Body
#Community
I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.
Thomas A. Edison,
American
Inventor
#World
#Kings
#Friendship
Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.
Thomas A. Edison,
American
Inventor
#Want
#Success
#Proof
I know this world is ruled by infinite intelligence. Everything that surrounds us- everything that exists - proves that there are infinite laws behind it. There can be no denying this fact. It is mathematical in its precision.
Thomas A. Edison,
American
Inventor
#World
#Infinite
#Fact
#Laws
#Intelligence
I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun.
Thomas A. Edison,
American
Inventor
#Life
#Work
#Fun
#Day
I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.
Thomas A. Edison,
American
Inventor
#Work
#Accident
#Inventions
I start where the last man left off.
Thomas A. Edison,
American
Inventor
#Man
If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves.
Thomas A. Edison,
American
Inventor
It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.
Thomas A. Edison,
American
Inventor
#People
#Work
#Effort
Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.
Thomas A. Edison,
American
Inventor
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Thomas A. Edison,
American
Inventor
#Life
#People
#Success
Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth.
Thomas A. Edison,
American
Inventor
#Youth
#Maturity
Nearly every man who develops an idea works it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then he gets discouraged. That's not the place to become discouraged.
Thomas A. Edison,
American
Inventor
#Man
#Idea
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,
American
Inventor
#Living
#Evolution
#Goal
#Ethics
One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.
Thomas A. Edison,
American
Inventor
#Work
#Success
#World
#Man
#Money
#Pleasure
#Value
#Invention
#Reward
I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.
Thomas A. Edison,
American
Inventor
#Work
#Success
#World
#Pleasure
#Reward
There is far more opportunity than there is ability.
Thomas A. Edison,
American
Inventor
#Ability
#Opportunity
The value of an idea lies in the using of it.
Thomas A. Edison,
American
Inventor
#Idea
#Value
#Lies
The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.
Thomas A. Edison,
American
Inventor
#Work
#Worth
#Hard work
#Common sense