“Thomas Edison’s teachers told him he was “too stupid to learn anything.” — Sean Patrick Copy Share Image
“The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around. —THOMAS A. EDISON” — David Perlmutter Copy Share Image
Steve Jobs was the greatest inventor since Thomas Edison. He put the world at our fingertips. — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
I had to do four years of undergraduate. I went to Thomas Edison State University in Trenton. — Isaac Wright Jr Copy Share Image
“There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the real labor of thinking. —THOMAS EDISON” — David Allen Copy Share Image
“My first hero was Thomas Edison, whose adult life had consisted entirely of free time.” — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
I've always said Thomas Edison invented the movie camera to show people killing and kissing. — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
Thomas Edisons Mother: Of course Im proud that you invented the electric light bulb. Now turn it off and get to bed! — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
“What we call creative work, Ought not to be called work at all because it isn't. I imagine that Thomas Edison never… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Thomas Edison once said, “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they… — Jane Friedman Copy Share Image
The genius of anyone can be questioned if considered alongside the right other someone. Consider Thomas Edison and Bill Gates. — Cellan Slarcas Copy Share Image
... Charlie Christians' contributions to the electric guitar are as big as Thomas Edisons' contributions to the world... — Barney Kessel Copy Share Image
“Thomas Edison’s last words were, “It’s very beautiful over there.” I don’t know where there is, but I know it’s somewhere, and… — John Green Copy Share Image
When Thomas Edison worked late into the night on the electric light, he had to do it by gas lamp or candle.… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
“preserving the essence, in fact the breath—when it opened, his museum displayed Thomas Edison’s last exhalation, captured by his son in a… — Greg Grandin Copy Share Image
“I have not failed ten thousand times. I have not failed once. I have succeeded in proving that those ten thousand ways… — Dave O'Connor Copy Share Image
Innovation really is the life blood of our American economy... looking back at the stories of Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, and… — Dan Lipinski Copy Share Image
What made Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Edison and Albert Einstein such creative geniuses? It wasn't reading books or watching YouTube talks about… — Oliver Burkeman Copy Share Image
“For too long, the creative world has focused on idea generation at the expense of idea execution. As the legendary inventor Thomas… — Jocelyn K. Glei Copy Share Image
The Wright brothers didn't contemplate the staying on the ground of things. Alexander Graham Bell didn't contemplate the noncommunication of things. Thomas… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
“They gave Saint Patrick his own day and what did he do but run out a bunch of snakes. Why, Thomas Edison… — Fannie Flagg Copy Share Image
“43. Don’t let past failures determine what your future success will be. Walt Disney went bankrupt — twice — before finally gaining… — Derek Rydall Copy Share Image
When Edison first started out with his "crazy" idea for the light bulb, skeptics were unmoved. They called Thomas Edison a con… — Linda Rottenberg Copy Share Image
Thomas A. Edison was once reluctantly persuaded by his wife to attend one of the big social functions of the season in… — Edmund Fuller Copy Share Image
As a writer, politician, scientist, and businessman, [Ben] Franklin had few equals among the educated of his day-though he left school at… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
“Many such top performers overcame their average—or even below-average—intellects and nonexistent aptitudes to develop outstanding abilities in disciplines such as chess, music,… — Sean Patrick Copy Share Image
“Education has nothing to do with it. Long before I was born, the secret had found its way into the possession of… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
I am in exact accord with the belief of Thomas Edison that spirit is immortal, that there is a continuing center of… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
His [Thomas Edison] method was inefficient in the extreme, for an immense ground had to be covered to get anything at all… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
You simply cannot give to the world all that you have to give to the world if you do not remain true… — Mike Dooley Copy Share Image
“The attitude which the man in the street unconsciously adopts towards science is capricious and varied. At one moment he scorns the… — Percy Williams Bridgman Copy Share Image
“I thought at first that she was just dead. Just darkness. Just a body being eaten by bugs. I thought about her… — John Green Copy Share Image
“I remember on one of my many visits with Thomas A. Edison , I brought up the question of Ingersoll . I… — Joseph Lewis Copy Share Image
“Well," he said, quite seriously, "it's this way: you work because you're afraid not to. You work becuase you have to drive… — Thomas Wolfe Copy Share Image
“{ From Luther Burbank 's funeral. He was loved until he revealed he was an atheist, then he began to receive death… — Ben Lindsey Copy Share Image
“I thought at first that she was just dead. Just darkness...I thought about the slow process of becoming bone and then fossil… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Tinkerers built America. Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, all were tinkerers in their childhood. Everything from the airplane to the computer… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
“More daring, though, was Jung’s uninhibited interest in spiritualism, which by this time had become a controversial topic on both sides of… — Gary Valentine Lachman Copy Share Image
“Thomas Edison said in all seriousness: "There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the labour of… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
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