I’ve realized that most of my best ideas have followed a good night’s sleep.
THOMAS EDISONThe trouble with most people is that they quit before they start.
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Genius is not inspired. Inspiration is perspiration.
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I think work is the world’s greatest fun.
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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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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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I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.
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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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A good intention, with a bad approach, often leads to a poor result.
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Success is the result of hard 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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The trouble with most people is that they quit before they start.
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Friendship is the heaven of life.
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Success is based on imagination plus ambition and the will to work.
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Nature is truly wonderful. Only man is truly foul.
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Before you reject an idea, find at least five good things about it.
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I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
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The doctor of the future will give no medication, but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, diet and in the cause and prevention of disease.
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A failure teaches you that something can’t be done-that way.
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We will make electricity so cheap that only the rich will burn candles.
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I didn’t fail 1000 times. The light bulb was an invention with 1000 steps.
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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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Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have.
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Great ideas originate in the muscles.
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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 do not believe in the God of the theologians; but that there is a Supreme Intelligence I do not doubt.
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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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