The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around.
THOMAS EDISONThe chief function of the body is to carry the brain around.
THOMAS EDISONA man’s best friend is a good wife.
THOMAS EDISONDo the thing and the power will come.
THOMAS EDISONThe first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.
THOMAS EDISONTo invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
THOMAS EDISONNearly 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.
THOMAS EDISONThere is no limit to which a man will not go to avoid thinking.
THOMAS EDISONConsider data without prejudice.
THOMAS EDISONI find out what the world needs. Then I go ahead and try to invent it.
THOMAS EDISONTo do much clear thinking a person must arrange for regular periods of solitude when they can concentrate and indulge the imagination without distraction.
THOMAS EDISONFive percent of the people think; ten percent of the people think they think; and the other eighty-five percent would rather die than think.
THOMAS EDISONTime is really the only capital that any human being has, and the only thing he can’t afford to lose.
THOMAS EDISONOpportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
THOMAS EDISONI never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.
THOMAS EDISONI failed my way to success.
THOMAS EDISONThis problem, once solved, will be simple.
THOMAS EDISON