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Education isn't play--and it can't be made to look like play. It is hard, hard work. But it can be made interesting work.

Education isn't play--and it can't be made to look like play. It is hard, hard work. But it can be made interesting work.

Thomas A. Edison
Education, Hard Work, Play

Never be discouraged, because every wrong turn attempt, when left behind you, is another step forward taking you closer to your goals.

Thomas A. Edison
Powerful, Goal, Behind You

What you are will show in what you do.

Thomas A. Edison
Motivation, Action, Human Nature

If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.

Thomas A. Edison
Inspirational, Motivational, Positive
"Motivating Humans : Goals, Emotions, and Personal Agency Beliefs". Book by Martin E. Ford, 1992.

What is a college? An institute of learning. What is a business? An institute of learning. Life, itself, is an institute of learning.

Thomas A. Edison
College, Never Stop Learning, Learning Life

There is always a better way.

Thomas A. Edison
Motivational, Self Reliance, Way

Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.

Thomas A. Edison
Life, Peace, Honesty
"Innovate Like Edison : The Five-Step System for Breakthrough Business Success". Book by Michael J. Gelb and Sarah Miller Caldicott, p. 67,

When you become quiet, it just dawns on you

Thomas A. Edison
Dawn, Quiet

A man’s best friend is a good wife.

Thomas A. Edison
Inspirational, Men, Wife

The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus and apply your mental and physical energies to the problem at hand - without growing weary. Because such thinking is often difficult, there seems to be no limit to which some people will go to avoid the effort and labor that is associated with it.

Thomas A. Edison
Motivational, Meaningful, Thinking

Absorb ideas from every source.

Thomas A. Edison
Ideas, Source

Most of my ideas belonged to other people who never bothered to develop them.

Thomas A. Edison
Ideas, People, Bothered

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man - and I will show you a failure.

Thomas A. Edison
Success, Educational, Failure
"The Diary and Sundry Observations of Thomas Alva Edison". Book by Thomas A. Edison, 1948.

The doctor of the future will no longer treat the human frame with drugs, but rather will cure and prevent disease with nutrition.

Thomas A. Edison
Motivational, Fitness, Health

The biggest failure of man is that he gives up before he realizes how close he was to success.

Thomas A. Edison
Sports, Giving Up, Men

The injurious agent in cigarettes comes principally from the burning paper wrapper. The substance thereby formed is called "acrolein." It has a violent action on the nerve centers, producing degeneration of the cells of the brain, which is quite rapid among boys. Unlike most narcotics, this degeneration is permanent and uncontrollable. I employ no person who smokes cigarettes.

Thomas A. Edison
Science, Boys, Cells

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.

Thomas A. Edison
Inspirational, Motivational, Single

Somewhere between the ages of eleven and fifteen, the average child begins to suffer from an atrophy, the paralysis of curiosity and the suspension of the power to observe. The trouble, I should judge, to lie with the schools.

Thomas A. Edison
Children, Lying, School

There seems to be no limit to which some men will go to avoid the labor of thinking. Thinking is hard work.

Thomas A. Edison
Hard Work, Men, Thinking

Today, I am wondering what would have happened to me by now, if, fifty years ago, some fluent talker had converted me to the theory of the eight-hour day and convinced me that it was not fair to my fellow-workers to put forth my best efforts in my work? I am glad that the eight-hour day had not been invented when I was a young man. If my life had been made up of eight-hour days, I don't believe I could have accomplished a great deal.

Thomas A. Edison
Life, Country, Work
"Along Broadway: The Edison Musical Magazine".

There is far more danger in public than in private monopoly, for when Government goes into business it can always shift its losses to the taxpayers. Government never makes ends meetand that is the first requisite of business.

Thomas A. Edison
Business, Loss, Government

I never did a day's work in my life, it was all fun.

Thomas A. Edison
Inspirational, Life, Fun
"Edison & Ford Quote Book". Book by Edison & Ford Winter Estates, 2003.

A reporter called on Edison to interview him about a substitute for lead in the manufacture of storage batteries that the scientist was seeking. Edison informed the man that he had made 20,000 experiments but none had worked. "Aren't you discouraged by all this waste of effort?" the reporter asked. Edison: "Waste! There's nothing wasted. I have discovered 20,000 things that won't work."

Thomas A. Edison
Work, Men, Discovery

A teacher sent the following note home with a six-year-old boy 'He is too stupid to learn.' That boy was Thomas A. Edison.

Thomas A. Edison
Teacher, Stupid, Home

They were not failures, they were new found ways of what does not work "I can accept failure,everyonefails at something. But I can't accept not trying

Thomas A. Edison
Trying, Doe, Way

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