The perils of overwork are slight compared with the dangers of inactivity.
THOMAS EDISONThe three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.
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To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
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Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
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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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I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
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Never go to sleep without a request to your subconscious.
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There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the real labor of thinking.
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I do not believe in the God of the theologians; but that there is a Supreme Intelligence I do not doubt.
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Success is the product of the severest kind of mental and physical application.
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Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.
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Good fortune is what happens when opportunity meets with planning.
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Anything that won’t sell, I don’t want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.
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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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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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Nature is truly wonderful. Only man is truly foul.
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To do much clear thinking a person must arrange for regular periods of solitude when they can concentrate and indulge the imagination without distraction.
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