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43 quotations in the database by Dickens |
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| 1. We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything. --- Thomas Edison |
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| 2. Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration. --- Thomas Edison |
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| 3. The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense. --- Thomas Edison |
| Achievement |
| 4. Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
--- Thomas Edison |
| Action |
| 5. I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident they came by work.
--- Thomas Edison |
| Action |
| 6. To my mind the old masters are not art; their value is in their scarcity.
--- Thomas Edison |
| Art |
| 7. I'm proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
--- Thomas Edison |
| Assassination |
| 8. Oh my, it's very beautiful over there. --- Thomas Edison |
| Beauty |
| 9. Restlessness and discontent are the necessities of progress.
--- Thomas Edison |
| Discontent |
| 10. Discontent is the first necessity of progress. --- Thomas Edison |
| Discontent |
| 11. am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward. --- Thomas Edison |
| Discouragement |
| 12. Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless --- Thomas Edison |
| Expectation |
| 13. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man - and I will show you a failure.
--- Thomas Edison |
| Failure |
| 14. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
--- Thomas Edison |
| Failure |
| 15. I have not failed 700 times. I have not failed once. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work. --- Thomas Edison |
| Failure |
| 16. Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. --- Thomas Edison |
| Failure |
| 17. Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. --- Thomas Edison |
| Failure |
| 18. Good fortune is what happens when opportunity meets with planning. --- Thomas Edison |
| Fortune |
| 19. Genius is one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration.
--- Thomas Edison |
| Genius |
| 20. There is no substitute for hard work. --- Thomas Edison |
| Hard Work |
| 21. Great ideas originate in the muscles. --- Thomas Edison |
| Ideas |
| 22. There is always a better way. --- Thomas Edison |
| Improvement |
| 23. To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. --- Thomas Edison |
| Invention |
| 24. To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
--- Thomas Alva Edison |
| Inventions |
| 25. We do not know one millionth of one percent about anything.
--- Thomas Edison |
| Knowledge |
| 26. Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth.
--- Thomas Edison |
| Maturity |
| 27. Opportunity is missed by most people because it comes dressed in overalls and looks like work. --- Thomas Edison |
| Opportunity |
| 28. Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.
--- Thomas Edison |
| Patience |
| 29. Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work. --- Thomas Edison |
| Resuls |
| 30. Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
--- Thomas Edison |
| Result |
| 31. I'm desperately trying to figure out why kamikaze pilots wore helmets. --- Thomas Edison |
| Ridiculous |
| 32. Hell, there are no rules here-- we're trying to accomplish something. --- Thomas Edison |
| Rules |
| 33. The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.
--- Thomas Edison |
| Success |
| 34. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man, and I will show you a failure.
--- Thomas Edison |
| Success |
| 35. The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary. --- Thomas Edison |
| Success |
| 36. There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking. --- Thomas Edison |
| Thinking |
| 37. There is time for everything. --- Thomas Edison |
| Time |
| 38. 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. --- Thomas Edison |
| Violence |
| 39. Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits. --- Thomas Edison |
| Waits |
| 40. 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 Edison |
| Waste |
| 41. I never did a days' work in my life -- it was all fun.
--- Thomas Edison |
| Work |
| 42. I am glad the eight-hour day had not been invented when I was a young man.
--- Thomas Edison |
| Work |
| 43. As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.
--- Thomas Edison |
| Worry |