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Day Quotes by Thomas A. Edison
- I am wondering what would have happened to me if some fluent talker had converted me to the theory of the eight-hour day and convinced…
- I owe my success to the fact that I never had a clock in my workroom. Seventy-five of us worked twenty hours every day and…
- Personally, I enjoy working about 18 hours a day. Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of…
- 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…
- From his neck down a man is worth a couple of dollars a day, from his neck up he is worth anything that his brain…
- To me, the idea and expectation that the day is slowly and surely coming when we will be able to honestly say we are our…
- I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun.
- 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,…
- Failure is really a matter of conceit. People don't work hard because, in their conceit, they imagine they'll succeed without ever making an effort. Most…
- So far as religion of the day is concerned, it is a damned fake...Religion is all bunk.
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