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Me Quotes by Thomas A. Edison
- My mother was the making of me. She was so true and so sure of me, I felt that I had someone to live for…
- The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me.
- Show me a completely contented person and I'll show you a failure.
- 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 am not overly impressed by the great names and reputations of those who might be trying to beat me to an invention. It's their…
- It is apparent to me that the possibilities of the aeroplane, which two or three years ago were thought to hold the solution to the…
- Nature is what we know. We do not know the gods of religions. And nature is not kind, or merciful, or loving. If God made…
- As a cure for worrying, work is far better than whiskey. I always found that, if I began to worry, the best thing I could…
- Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and noises…
- 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 would construct and work along various lines until I found them untenable. When one theory was discarded, I developed another at once. I realized…
- Oh these mathematicians make me tired! When you ask them to work out a sum they take a piece of paper, cover it with rows…
- My mother was the making of me.
- I never knew I had an inventive talent until Phrenology told me so. I was a stranger to myself until then!
- Smoking too much makes me nervous. Must lasso my natural tendency to acquire such habits. Holding heavy cigar constantly in my mouth has deformed my…
- During all those years of experimentation and research, I never once made a discovery. All my work was deductive, and the results I achieved were…
- Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
- Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
- Negative results are just what I want. They’re just as valuable to me as positive results. I can never find the thing that does the…
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- Boxing gave me the opportunities to grow into the person that I am today. — Alexis Arguello
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- I'm literally open to any medium that will have me. — J. J. Abrams
- From heresy, frenzy and jealousy, good Lord deliver me. — Ludovico Ariosto
- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth. — Aristotle
- A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought me more… — Frank Abagnale