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I get my ideas from listening from within.

I get my ideas from listening from within.

Thomas A. Edison
Ideas, Listening

When we learn how to store electricity, we will cease being apes ourselves; until then we are tailless orangutans. You see, we should utilize natural forces and thus get all of our power. Sunshine is a form of energy, and the winds and the tides are manifestations of energy. Do we use them? Oh, no! We burn up wood and coal, as renters burn up the front fence for fuel. We live like squatters, not as if we owned the property.

Thomas A. Edison
Sunshine, Wind, Energy

The trouble with most people is that they quit before they start.

Thomas A. Edison
Thinking, People, Quitting

Accomplishing something provides the only real satisfaction in life.

Thomas A. Edison
Real, Satisfaction In Life, Satisfaction

The perils of overwork are slight compared with the dangers of inactivity.

Thomas A. Edison
Danger, Peril, Inactivity

A good idea is never lost. Even though its originator or possessor may die, it will someday be reborn in the mind of another.

Thomas A. Edison
Motivational, Ideas, Mind

Everything comes to those who hustle while they wait.

Thomas A. Edison
Sports, Encouragement, Accomplishment

Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith and go forward.

Thomas A. Edison
Father, Persistence, Brave
"A Bright Idea: Rescue the Incandescents" by Ken Blackwell, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 18, 2011.

Do the thing and the power will come.

Thomas A. Edison

A diamond is a piece of coal that stuck to the job

Thomas A. Edison
Jobs, Coal, Pieces

I do not believe in the God of the theologians; but that there is a Supreme Intelligence I do not doubt.

Thomas A. Edison
God, Believe, Doubt
The Freethinker, Volume 90, 1970.

Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have.

Thomas A. Edison
Happiness, Inspiring, Success

I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.

Thomas A. Edison
Technology, Thinking, Might

There is great value in disaster. All our mistakes are burned up. Thank God we can start a new.

Thomas A. Edison
Mistake, Thank God, Disaster

Good fortune is what happens when opportunity meets with planning.

Thomas A. Edison
Opportunity, Optimism, Luck

Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison
Inspirational, Motivational, Positive
Harper's Monthly Magazine, September 1932.

The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around.

Thomas A. Edison
Brain, Mind, Body

A good intention, with a bad approach, often leads to a poor result.

Thomas A. Edison
Good Intentions, Poor, Results

I believe in the existence of a Supreme Intelligence pervading the Universe.

Thomas A. Edison
Believe, Existence, Supreme
"Thomas A. Edison, Benefactor of Mankind: The Romantic Life Story of the World's Greatest Inventor". Book by Francis Trevelyan Miller, 1931.

There is no limit to which a man will not go to avoid thinking.

Thomas A. Edison
Men, Thinking, Limits

There is no substitute for hard work.

Thomas A. Edison
Motivational, Perseverance, Morning

Every failure is a lesson learned about your strategy.

Thomas A. Edison
Lesson Learned, Lessons, Strategy

I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious ideas of heaven and hell, of future life for individuals, or of a personal God.

Thomas A. Edison
Religious, Atheist, If There Is A God
"Jesus : Myth Or Reality?". Book by Ian Curtis, 2006.

The beauty of a great idea lies in the art of using it.

Thomas A. Edison
Art, Lying, Ideas

As a cure for worrying, work is far better than whiskey. I always found that, if I began to worry, the best thing I could do was focus upon doing something useful and then work very hard at it. Soon, I would forget what was troubling me.

Thomas A. Edison
Motivational, Worry, Focus

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