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To quote Thomas Alva Edison

Submitted by Roanman on Sat, 05/02/2009 - 13:12

 

  Hell, there are no rules here--we're trying to accomplish something.
 
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
 
I shall make electricity so cheap that only the rich can afford to burn candles.
 
Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent.  Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.
 
I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.
 
I haven't failed, I've found 10,000 ways that don't work.
 
Everything comes to him who  hustles while he waits.
 
The perils of overwork are slight compared with the dangers of inactivity.
 
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
 
Good fortune is what happens when opportunity meets with planning.
 
If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves.
 
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.
 
I know this world is ruled by infinite intelligence.  Everything that surrounds us - everything that exists - proves that there are infinite laws behind it.  There can be no denying this fact.  It is mathematical in its precision.
 
Religion is all bunk.
 
All Bibles are man-made.
 
I do not believe that any type of religion should ever be introduced into the public schools of the United States.
 
I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious theories of heaven and hell, of future life for individuals, or of a personal God.
 
The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around.
 
You can't realize your dreams unless you have one to begin with.
 
Restlessness and discontent are the first necessities of progress.
 
The best thinking has been done in solitude.  The worst has been done in turmoil.
 
They say President Wilson has blundered.  Perhaps he has, but I notice he usually blunders forward.
 
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.
 
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
 
Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
 
There is far more opportunity than there is ability.
 
I never did a day's work in my life.  It was all fun.
 
To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
 
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.
 
What you are, will show in what you do.

 

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