The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.
THOMAS EDISONI have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.
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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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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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Most of my ideas belonged to other people who never bothered to develop them.
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Work while others are wishing.
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Fools call wise men fools. A wise man never calls any man a fool.
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Consider data without prejudice.
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Accomplishing something provides the only real satisfaction in life.
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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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The successful person makes a habit of doing what the failing person doesn’t like to do.
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I think work is the world’s greatest fun.
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I’ve realized that most of my best ideas have followed a good night’s sleep.
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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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I find out what the world needs. Then I go ahead and try to invent it.
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Being busy does not always mean real work.
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This problem, once solved, will be simple.
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Friendship is the heaven of life.
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Continued innovation is the best way to beat the competition.
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If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves.
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I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.
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Success is based on imagination plus ambition and the will to 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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When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.
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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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Success is the product of the severest kind of mental and physical application.
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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.
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The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.
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