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Mr. Edison worked endlessly on a problem, using the method of elimination. If a person asked him if he were discouraged because so many attempts proved unavailing, he would say, No, I am not discouraged, because every

Mr. Edison worked endlessly on a problem, using the method of elimination. If a person asked him if he were discouraged because so many attempts proved unavailing, he would say, "No, I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.".

Thomas A. Edison
Steps, Problem, Discouraged

There is time for everything.

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Motivational, Time, Peace

The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work.

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Success, Hard Work, Opportunity

To my mind the old masters are not art; their value is in their scarcity.

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Art, Philosophy, History

To get a great idea, come up with lots of them.

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Creativity, Play, Ideas

When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes.

Thomas A. Edison
Inspirational, Perseverance, Life Lesson

The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness... Unfortunately, many of life's failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. 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
Hard Work, Adventure, Ideas

There's a way to do it better - find it.

Thomas A. Edison
Positive, Business, Creativity

Friendship is the heaven of life.

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Heaven

I am long on ideas, but short on time. I expect to live to be only about a hundred.

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Inspirational, Life, Birthday

The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast

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Inspirational, Life, Motivational

Failure is really a matter of conceit. People don't work hard because, in their conceit, they imagine they'll succeed without ever making an effort. Most people believe that they'll wake up some day and find themselves rich. Actually, they've got it half right, because eventually they do wake up.

Thomas A. Edison
Believe, Hard Work, People

Sticking to it is the genius.

Thomas A. Edison
Children, Ignorance, Knowledge

When there's no experimenting there's no progress. Stop experimenting and you go backward. If anything goes wrong, experiment until you get to the very bottom of the trouble.

Thomas A. Edison
Progress, Anything Goes, Trouble

I would rather have one man with enthusiasm working with me than ten who are complacent.

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Men, Enthusiasm, Complacent

Genius is 1 percent inspiration, 99 percent perspiration.

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Inspirational, Educational, Genius

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.

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Inspirational, Science, Imagination Creativity
"Behavior-Based Robotics". Book by Ronald C. Arkin, 1998.

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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Success, Jobs, Failure

Being busy does not always mean real work.

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Real, Mean, Infinite Intelligence
Ford Times, Volume 6 (p. 136), 1912.

Youth doesn't take advice.

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Advice, Youth

Smoking too much makes me nervous. Must lasso my natural tendency to acquire such habits. Holding heavy cigar constantly in my mouth has deformed my upper lip, it has a sort of Havana curl.

Thomas A. Edison
Smoking, Curls, Mouths

We shall have no better conditions in the future if we are satisfied with all those which we have at present.

Thomas A. Edison
Self Confidence, Design, Complacency

A failure teaches you that something can't be done-that way.

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Failure, Done, Way

I am 67, but I'm not too old to make a fresh start.

Thomas A. Edison
Life, Motivational, Fresh Start

The great trouble is that the preachers get the children from six to seven years of age and then it is almost impossible to do anything with them.

Thomas A. Edison
Children, Years, Religion

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