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Personally, I enjoy working about 18 hours a day. Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.

Personally, I enjoy working about 18 hours a day. Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.

Thomas A. Edison
Inspirational, Motivational, Sleep

The strength of the Constitution, lies in the will of the people to defend it.

Thomas A. Edison
Lying, People, Liberty

Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

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

I find out what the world needs. Then I go ahead and try to invent it

Thomas A. Edison
Inspirational, Science, Trying

Success is the result of hard work.

Thomas A. Edison
Hard Work, Mathematics, Results

I failed my way to success.

Thomas A. Edison
Inspirational, Motivational, Fear

Never Say I Failed 99 Times, Say I Discovered 99 Ways Which Causes Failure!

Thomas A. Edison
Way, Causes

I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.

Thomas A. Edison
Inspirational, Friendship, Positive

Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.

Thomas A. Edison
Inspirational, Motivational, Real
Ford Times, Vol. 6, p. 136, 1912.

I can never pick up a thing without wishing to improve it.

Thomas A. Edison
Wish, Picks, I Can

Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly. The scope of thrift is limitless.

Thomas A. Edison
Time, Loss, Lost Friendship

Success depends on how many experiments you can fit into 24 hours

Thomas A. Edison
Fit, Hours, Experiments

I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others... I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.

Thomas A. Edison
Inspirational, Motivational, Creativity

The value of an idea lies in the using of it.

Thomas A. Edison
Business, Good Life, Lying

I make more mistakes than anyone else I know, and sooner or later, I patent most of them.

Thomas A. Edison
Funny Inspirational, Mistake, Creativity

From his neck down a man is worth a couple of dollars a day, from his neck up he is worth anything that his brain can produce.

Thomas A. Edison
Motivational, Couple, Men

The greatest discoveries will be along spiritual lines. This is the field where miracles are going to happen. Spiritual power is the greatest underdeveloped power and has the greatest future.

Thomas A. Edison
Spiritual, Discovery, Miracle

Barring serious accidents, if you are not preoccupied with worry and you work hard, you can look forward to a reasonably lengthy existence.... Its not the hard work that kills, its the worrying that kills.

Thomas A. Edison
Motivational, Hard Work, Worry

To do much clear thinking a person must arrange for regular periods of solitude when they can concentrate and indulge the imagination without distraction.

Thomas A. Edison
Thinking, Imagination, Solitude

I cannot believe in the immortality of the soul. No, all this talk of an existence for us, as individuals, beyond the grave is wrong. It is born of our tenacity of life - our desire to go on living - our dread of coming to an end.

Thomas A. Edison
Atheist, Believe, Soul

My mother was the making of me. She was so true and so sure of me, I felt that I had someone to live for - someone I must not disappoint. The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me.

Thomas A. Edison
Mom, Mother, Appreciation

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.

Thomas A. Edison
Fall, Tides, Sun

Sleep is like a drug. Take too much at a time and it makes you dopey. You lose time and opportunities.

Thomas A. Edison
Sleep, Opportunity, Drug

I remember that I was never able to get along at school. I was at the foot of the class.

Thomas A. Edison
Education, School, Class

I am a vegetarian as well as a passionate anti-alcoholic, because I can thus make better use of my brain.

Thomas A. Edison
Animal, Brain, Passionate

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