Tag: Thomas Alva Edison

Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

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Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

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Restlessness and discontent are the first necessities of progress.

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Results Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won’t work.

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

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There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking.

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There is no substitute for hard work.

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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.

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

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We don’t know a millionth of one percent about anything.

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