Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
THOMAS EDISONIf we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves.
More Thomas Edison Quotes
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Most of my ideas belonged to other people who never bothered to develop them.
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Be courageous! Have faith! Go forward.
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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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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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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 expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the real labor of thinking.
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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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Good fortune is what happens when opportunity meets with planning.
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Do the thing and the power will come.
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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 never view mistakes as failures. They are simply opportunities to find out what doesn’t work.
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I didn’t fail 1000 times. The light bulb was an invention with 1000 steps.
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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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So far as the religion of the day is concerned, it is a damned fake. Religion is all bunk.
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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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