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Keep on the lookout for novel ideas that others have used successfully. Your idea has to be original only in its adaptation to the problem you're working on.

Keep on the lookout for novel ideas that others have used successfully. Your idea has to be original only in its adaptation to the problem you're working on.

Thomas A. Edison
Ideas, Problem, Adaptation

I am much less interested in what is called God's word than in God's deeds. All bibles are man-made.

Thomas A. Edison
Men, Deeds, Made

I'd put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don't have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that.

Thomas A. Edison
Running, Nature, Hydrogen Fuel
"Uncommon Friends : Life with Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Harvey Firestone, Alexis Carrel & Charles Lindbergh". Book by James Newton, 1987.

It is remarkable to what lengths people will go to avoid thought.

Thomas A. Edison
People, Length, Remarkable

I think work is the world's greatest fun.

Thomas A. Edison
Fun, Thinking, World

There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.

Thomas A. Edison
Peace, Fear, Spring

Inspiration can be found in a pile of junk. Sometimes, you can put it together with a good imagination and invent something.

Thomas A. Edison
Inspiration, Imagination, Together

Genius? Nothing! Sticking to it is the genius! Any other bright-minded fellow can accomplish just as much if he will stick like hell and remember nothing that's any good works by itself. You've got to make the damn thing work!...I failed my way to success.

Thomas A. Edison
Genius, Way, Sticks

I have had a lot of success with failure

Thomas A. Edison

There is much more opportunity than there are people to see it.

Thomas A. Edison
Opportunity, People

Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.

Thomas A. Edison
Positive, Mean Girls, Funny Inspirational
"Artifacts : An Archaeologist's Year in Silicon Valley". Book by Christine Finn, 2001.

Surprises and reverses can serve as an incentive for great accomplishment. There are no rules here, we're just trying to accomplish something.

Thomas A. Edison
Motivational, Accomplishment, Trying

Large portions of life's disappointments are individuals who did not understand that they were so near achievement when they surrendered.

Thomas A. Edison
Disappointment, Achievement, Individual

Everyone steals in commerce and industry. I've stolen a lot, myself. But I know how to steal! They don't know how to steal!

Thomas A. Edison
Stealing, Stolen, Commerce
"Tesla: The Modern Sorcerer". Book by Daniel Blair Stewart, 1999.

If I had not had so much ambition and not tried to do so many things, I probably would have been happier, but less useful.

Thomas A. Edison
Ambition, Has Beens, Ifs

My main purpose in life is to make money so I can afford to go on creating more inventions.

Thomas A. Edison
Motivational, Creating, Purpose

To have a great idea, have a lot of them.

Thomas A. Edison
Positive, Smart, Failure

Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and noises which the ordinary person does not hear.

Thomas A. Edison
Motivational, Sound, Ordinary

There cannot be overproduction of anything which men and women want. And their wants are unlimited, except by the size of their stomachs.

Thomas A. Edison
Men, Want, Size

The first requisite of success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem without growing weary.

Thomas A. Edison
Success, Focus, Energy

In creating technology for ourselves we created it for the world.

Thomas A. Edison
Wisdom, Technology, Creating

The stomach is the only part of man which can be fully satisfied. The yearning of man's brain for new knowledge and experience and for more pleasant and comfortable surroundings never can be completely met. It is an appetite which cannot be appeased.

Thomas A. Edison
Men, Brain, Surroundings

We haven't failed. We now know a thousand things that won't work, so we are much closer to finding what will.

Thomas A. Edison
Educational, Thousand, Findings

Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!

Thomas A. Edison
Faith, Courage, Father

I never once failed at making a light bulb. I just found out 99 ways not to make one.

Thomas A. Edison
Light, Way, Found

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