To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
THOMAS EDISONGenius is not inspired. Inspiration is perspiration.
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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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Every failure is a lesson learned about your strategy.
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If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.
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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 value of an idea lies in the using of it.
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Work while others are wishing.
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Success is the product of the severest kind of mental and physical application.
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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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Time is really the only capital that any human being has, and the only thing he can’t afford to lose.
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Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.
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The strength of the Constitution, lies in the will of the people to defend it.
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I didn’t fail 1000 times. The light bulb was an invention with 1000 steps.
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Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
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I owe my success to the fact that I never had a clock in my workroom.
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The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around.
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