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Effort Quotes by Thomas A. Edison
- The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus and apply your mental and physical energies to the problem at hand -…
- 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…
- A reporter called on Edison to interview him about a substitute for lead in the manufacture of storage batteries that the scientist was seeking. Edison…
- There is no substitute for hard work.
- It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.
- 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…
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- Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him. — Chinua Achebe
- The fatigue produced on the muscles of the human frame does not altogether depend on the actual force employed in each effort,… — Charles Babbage
- I just wanted to be an ordinary, middle-class person. When I was at Cambridge, I made great efforts to lose the last… — Peter Ackroyd
- A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive… — Liberty Hyde Bailey
- Even the most wretched individual of our present society could not exist and develop without the cumulative social efforts of countless generations. — Mikhail Bakunin