I have better use for my brain than to poison it with alcohol. To put alcohol in the human brain is like putting sand in the bearings of an engine.
THOMAS EDISONBefore you reject an idea, find at least five good things about it.
More Thomas Edison Quotes
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I owe my success to the fact that I never had a clock in my workroom.
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I think work is the world’s greatest fun.
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A failure teaches you that something can’t be done-that way.
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Five percent of the people think; ten percent of the people think they think; and the other eighty-five percent would rather die than think.
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Continued innovation is the best way to beat the competition.
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The trouble with most people is that they quit before they start.
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Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
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It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.
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There is no limit to which a man will not go to avoid thinking.
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I never view mistakes as failures. They are simply opportunities to find out what doesn’t work.
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Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
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The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus.
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Success depends on how many experiments you can fit into 24 hours.
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Absorb ideas from every source.
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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 job best until I find the ones that don’t.
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