Motivational Quotes by Thomas A. Edison

47 Motivational quotes by Thomas A. Edison

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Thomas Edison describes his inner hearing as a secret sense that lets him notice sounds others miss. He works long hours and takes short catnaps, treating his mind like a sponge that soaks up ideas. He says vision without action is just a daydream.

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Be courageous! Have faith! Go forward.

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Everything comes to those who hustle while they wait.

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

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I failed my way to success.

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Work while others are wishing.

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There is always a better way.

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There is time for everything.

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Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.

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“Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.”

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My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant - but misdirected - ideas of others…

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

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Having a vision for what you want is not enough...Vision without execution is hallucination

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I love great music and art, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.

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I owe my success to the fact that I never had a clock in my workroom.

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The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me.

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Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so called scientific knowledge.

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The doctor of the future will no longer treat the human frame with drugs, but rather will cure and prevent disease with…

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Results? Why, man, I have gotten lots of results! If I find 10,000 ways something won't work, I haven't failed. I am…

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I never did anything worth doing entirely by accident. . . Almost none of my inventions came about totally by accident. They…

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I have far more respect for the person with a single idea who gets there than for the person with a thousand…

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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…

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Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. As a result, a genius is often a talented person who has simply…

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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…

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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…

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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,…

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The United States, and other advanced nations, will someday be able to produce instruments of death so terrible the world will be…

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As a cure for worrying, work is far better than whiskey. I always found that, if I began to worry, the best…

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The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus and apply your mental and physical energies to the problem…

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If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.

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Life's most soothing things are a child's goodnight and sweet music.

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IF PARENTS PASS ENTHUSIASM ALONG TO THEIR CHILDREN, THEY WILL LEAVE THEM AN ESTATE OF INCALCULABLE VALUE

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Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character.

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

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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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I believe that the science of chemistry alone almost proves the existence of an intelligent creator.

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Because I readily absorb ideas from every source - frequently starting where the last person left off - I never pick up…

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The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness…

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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…

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Because ideas have to be original only with regard to their adaptation to the problem at hand, I am always extremely interested…

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To me, the idea and expectation that the day is slowly and surely coming when we will be able to honestly say…

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

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Invention is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration.

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There seems to be no limit to which some men will go to avoid the labor of thinking. Thinking is hard work.

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Somewhere between the ages of eleven and fifteen, the average child begins to suffer from an atrophy, the paralysis of curiosity and the suspension…

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