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.
THOMAS EDISONI 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.
More Thomas Edison Quotes
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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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A failure teaches you that something can’t be done-that way.
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I am 67, but I’m not too old to make a fresh start.
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I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.
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I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
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Vision without execution is delusion.
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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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A good intention, with a bad approach, often leads to a poor result.
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We shall have no better conditions in the future if we are satisfied with all those which we have at present.
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Absorb ideas from every source.
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There seems to be no limit to which some men will go to avoid the labor of thinking. Thinking is hard work.
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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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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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Good fortune is what happens when opportunity meets with planning.
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So far as the religion of the day is concerned, it is a damned fake. Religion is all bunk.
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