I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.
THOMAS EDISONGood fortune is what happens when opportunity meets with planning.
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When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this – you haven’t.
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I owe my success to the fact that I never had a clock in my workroom.
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Every failure is a lesson learned about your strategy.
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Never go to sleep without a request to your subconscious.
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Success is based on imagination plus ambition and the will to work.
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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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The greatest invention in the world is the mind of a child.
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The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.
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Success depends on how many experiments you can fit into 24 hours.
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Nearly every person who develops an idea works at it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then gets discouraged. That’s not the place to become discouraged.
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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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Great ideas originate in the muscles.
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Absorb ideas from every source.
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All bibles are man-made.
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There is no limit to which a man will not go to avoid thinking.
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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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We will make electricity so cheap that only the rich will burn candles.
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I start where the last man left off.
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Before you reject an idea, find at least five good things about it.
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I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
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You can’t realize your dreams unless you have one to begin with.
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I have far more respect for the person with a single idea who gets there than for the person with a thousand ideas who does nothing.
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There is no limit to which a man will not go to avoid thinking.
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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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The successful person makes a habit of doing what the failing person doesn’t like to do.
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To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
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