"The thing I lose patience with the most……" — Thomas A. Edison
"The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast"
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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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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'll come and make love to you at five o'clock. If I'm late start without me.
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Directing is physically exciting because there's a ticking clock, you're working with people, it's very social, it's very enjoyable.
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I rode horseback three miles each way to get to high school, and in bad weather it was a problem…
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And I know this happens because I took economics, and I'd explain it to ya, but I flunked that course.…
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The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure.
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I write seven days a week, starting at 4 o'clock in the morning, including Christmas.
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Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author.
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