"A diamond is a piece of coal that…" — Thomas A. Edison
"A diamond is a piece of coal that stuck to the job"
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279 Quotes by Thomas A. Edison
Thomas A. Edison has 279 quotes on this site.
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My mother was the making of me. She was so true and so sure of me, I felt that I…
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The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me.
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Results? Why, man, I have gotten lots of results! If I find 10,000 ways something won't work, I haven't failed.…
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Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.
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Somewhere between the ages of eleven and fifteen, the average child begins to suffer from an atrophy, the paralysis of…
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We haven't failed. We now know a thousand things that won't work, so we are much closer to finding what…
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Genius is 1 percent inspiration, 99 percent perspiration.
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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.
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IF PARENTS PASS ENTHUSIASM ALONG TO THEIR CHILDREN, THEY WILL LEAVE THEM AN ESTATE OF INCALCULABLE VALUE
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I remember that I was never able to get along at school. I was at the foot of the class.
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I never failed once. It just happened to be a 2000-step process.
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I am 67, but I'm not too old to make a fresh start.
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I didn't know a time when there wasn't a war because I spent all my time from the age of…
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Envy's a coal comes hissing hot from Hell.
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I do a job and am lucky enough to do a job that I love, but it is a hard…
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Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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As the heat of the coal differs from the coal itself, so do memory, perception, judgment, emotion, and will, differ…
— Annie Besant
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This island is made mainly of coal and surrounded by fish. Only an organizing genius could produce a shortage of…
— Aneurin Bevan
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The extraction of oil, coal and minerals brought, and still brings, a cost to the environment.
— Bono
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I'm lying in my bed, blanket is warm, this body will never keep me safe from harm. I still feel…
— Jeff Buckley
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After all, game shows are not like working in a coal mine.
— Drew Carey
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James Watt patented his steam engine on the eve of the American Revolution, consummating a relationship between coal and the…
— Jeremy Rifkin
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But the way to overcome is by patience, forgiving and praying for your enemies, in doing whereof you heap coals…
— Samuel Rutherford
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...We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated. That sounds goody two-shoes, I know, but I believe…
— Maya Angelou
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