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Quotations by author » Thomas Alva Edison
Most famous American Inventor who, singly or jointly, held a world record 1.093 patents. In addition, he created the world's first industrial research laboratory, 1847-1931
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Not only will atomic power be released, but someday we will harness the rise and fall of the tides and imprison the rays of the sun
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One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.
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Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Opportunity
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.
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Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
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Religion is all bunk.
Religion
Restlessness and discontent are the first necessities of progress.
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Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
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Results! Why man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work
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Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
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Success is 10 percent inspiration and 90 percent perspiration.
Success
The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.
Thinking
The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around
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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.
Success
The first step is an intuition and it comes with a burst, then difficulties arise - this thing gives out and then that - 'Bugs' - as such little faults and difficulties are called - show themselves, and months of intense watching, study and labor ar
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The ideas I use are mostly the ideas of people who don't develop them
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The perils of overwork are slight compared with the dangers of inactivity
Team work
The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work.
Opportunity
The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.
AchievementCommon senseCourage
The value of an idea lies in the using of it.
ActionIdeasInspirational
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