Bulbs Quote by Thomas A. Edison Download Open image “I never once failed at making a light bulb. I just found out 99 ways not to make one.” — Thomas A. Edison ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bulbs Found Light Light bulb Way
I did not fail two thousand times. I merely found two thousand ways not to make a lightbulb. — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
It's a failure only if you don't get anything out of it, Thomas Edison said he knew 999 ways that a light bulb did… — Benjamin Carson Copy Share Image
I didn't fail 1000 times. The light bulb was an invention with 1000 steps. — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
Of the 200 light bulbs that didn't work, every failure told me something that I was able to incorporate into the next attempt. — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
Edison failed 10,000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times. — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
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I always loved bulbs, and I use light a lot in my shows. In my office in Paris, I have 300 bulbs. — Alexandre de Betak Copy Share Image
... you can't put out a light just because it may light the wrong person. — Susan Glaspell 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 man and… — Linda Rottenberg Copy Share Image
Edison failed ten thousand times before he perfected the modern electric lamp. The average man would have quit at the first failure. That's why… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
We are striking it big in the electric light, better than my vivid imagination first conceived. Where this thing is going to stop Lord… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
I will not say I failed 1000 times, I will say that I discovered there are 1000 ways that can cause failure — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
The very first thing an executive must have is a fine memory. Of course it does not follow that a man with a fine… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
Personally, I enjoy working about 18 hours a day. Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
The brain can be developed just the same as the muscles can be developed, if on will only take the pains to train the… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
“People who will not turn a shovel full of dirt on the project nor contribute a pound of material, will collect more money from… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes. — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
I remember that I was never able to get along at school. I was at the foot of the class. — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
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My parents are actors as well, so I grew up around that world. It was always a very romantic, mythical world. They did a… — Phoebe Fox Copy Share Image
We can never be like lillies in the garden unless we have spent time as bulbs in the dark, totally ignored. — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
A hotel is a place that keeps the manufacturers of 25-watt bulbs in business. — Shelley Berman Copy Share Image
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We live technologically, with man as the master of nature, man as the engineer, and let anyone who raises his voice against it stop… — Max Frisch Copy Share Image
I long for the bulbs to arrive, for the early autumn chores are melancholy, but the planting of bulbs is the work of hope… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
We talked death with burned-up intensity, both of us drawn to it like moths to an electric light bulb. Sucking on it! — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
My co-pastor is Randy Frazee. Randy is the brightest bulb in this box. He really has a feeling for what a church needs in… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
He spent more time on the road to Damascus than a Syrian camel driver. And we thought nobody could fill John Kerry's flip-flops! ...… — Mike Huckabee Copy Share Image
I plant daffodil bulbs about eight inches deep. As I mentioned before, I don't use a ruler. As a married woman, I know perfectly… — Cassandra Danz Copy Share Image
I went to a doctor and told him I felt normal on acid, that I was a light bulb in a world of moths.… — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image