"If we did the things we were capable……" — Thomas A. Edison
"If we did the things we were capable of doing we would literally astonish ourselves."
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279 Quotes by Thomas A. Edison
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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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In truth, the only restrictions on our capacity to astonish ourselves and each other are imposed by our own minds.
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With an apple I will astonish Paris.
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What continues to astonish me about a garden is that you can walk past it in a hurry, see something…
— Dorothy Gilman
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That no generally applicable law of the formulation and development of hybrids has yet been successfully formulated can hardly astonish…
— Gregor Mendel
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My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who and how you are, to astonish a mean…
— Maya Angelou
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The chief weapon of sea pirates, however, was their capacity to astonish. Nobody else could believe, until it was too…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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The end of childhood is when things cease to astonish us. When the world seems familiar, when one has got…
— Eugene Ionesco
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All television ever did was shrink the demand for ordinary movies. The demand for extraordinary movies increased. If any one…
— Clive James
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What do I ask of a painting? I ask it to astonish, disturb, seduce, convince.
— Lucian Freud
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The spectacle of a great, solvent government paying a fictitious price for gold it did not want and did not…
— Garet Garrett
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Overcoming sin, blessed though it surely is, is but the bare minimum of a believers experience. There is nothing astonishing…
— Watchman Nee
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Everybody is I, you all know you are you. And wheresoever's beings exist throughout all galaxies it doesn't any difference.…
— Alan Watts
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