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Quotes by Thomas Alva Edison

"Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration."
By Thomas Alva Edison
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"I have not failed. Ive just found 10,000 ways that dont work."
By Thomas Alva Edison
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"To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk."
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"When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes."
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"Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure."
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"Restlessness and discontent are the first necessities of progress."
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"Genius is 1 inspiration and 99 perspiration."
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"Hell, there are no rules here-- we're trying to accomplish something."
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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 terrifyin"
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"I am long on ideas, but short on time. I only expect to live only about a hundred years."
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"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."
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"If we did all the things we were capable of doing, We would literally astound ourselves."
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"There is no substitute for hard work."
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"Everything comes to he who hustles while he waits."
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"We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything."
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"Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends th"
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"Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless."
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"I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward."
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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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"Great ideas originate in the muscles."
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"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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"There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking."
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