Thomas Edison on ability
“The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.”
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If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves.
Thomas EdisonThomas Edison I think work is the world’s greatest fun.
Thomas EdisonThomas Edison I find out what the world needs. Then I go ahead and try to invent it.
Thomas EdisonThomas Edison There’s a way to do it better – find it.
Thomas EdisonThomas Edison I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
Thomas EdisonThomas Edison Having a vision for what you want is not enough. Vision without execution is hallucination.
Thomas EdisonThomas Edison A failure teaches you that something can’t be done-that way.
Thomas EdisonThomas Edison Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
Thomas EdisonThomas Edison 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 EdisonThomas Edison Never Say I Failed 99 Times, Say I Discovered 99 Ways Which Causes Failure!
Thomas EdisonThomas Edison Vision without execution is delusion.
Thomas EdisonThomas Edison Accomplishing something provides the only real satisfaction in life.
Thomas EdisonThomas Edison The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.
Thomas EdisonThomas Edison There is no limit to which a man will not go to avoid thinking.
Thomas EdisonThomas Edison There is no limit to which a man will not go to avoid thinking.
Thomas EdisonThomas Edison 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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My mother is my root, my foundation. She planted the seed that I base my life on, and that is the belief that the ability to achieve starts in your mind.
Michael JordanMichael Jordan The true measure of a successful leader is their ability to discover the hidden talent in those they lead and challenge them to achieve greatness.
Henry FordHenry Ford All humans are born with the ability to be attracted to both sexes.
Megan FoxMegan Fox He is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy whereas the man of no virtue or ability is his own worst enemy and is afraid of solitude.
AristotleAristotle The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus.
Thomas EdisonThomas Edison The single thing which makes any man happiest is the realization that he has worked up to the limits of his ability, his capacity. It’s all the better, of course, if this work has made a contribution to knowledge, or toward moving the human race a little farther forward.
Neil ArmstrongNeil Armstrong The single thing which makes any man happiest is the realization that he has worked up to the limits of his ability, his capacity. It’s all the better, of course, if this work has made a contribution to knowledge, or toward moving the human race a little farther forward.
Neil ArmstrongNeil Armstrong Everybody has talent, but ability takes hard work.
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