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“Never go to sleep without a request to your subconscious”
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“Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration”
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“Time is really the only capital that any human being has, and the only thing he can't afford to lose”
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“The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.”
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“When Thomas Edison’s factory burned to the ground in 1914, destroying one-of-a-kind prototypes and causing $23 million in damage, Edison’s response was simple:
"Thank goodness all our mistakes were burned up. Now we can start fresh again.”
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"Thank goodness all our mistakes were burned up. Now we can start fresh again.”
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“There ain’t no rules around here. We’re trying to accomplish something.”
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“Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have.”
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“I Failed My Way To Success.”
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“We are like tenant farmers chopping down the fence around our house for fuel when we should be using Natures inexhaustible sources of energy – sun, wind and tide. … 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.”
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“If you want to succeed, get some enemies.”
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“You only fail when you stop trying.”
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“I don't know where over there is but I believe it's somewhere and I hope it's beautiful.”
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“The strength of the Constitution, lies in the will of the people to defend it.”
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“I have not failed. I have just found 10,000 ways it will NOT work.”
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“A genius is often merely a talented person who has done all of his or her homework.”
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“Hell, there are no rules here – we’re trying to accomplish something.”
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“Never go to sleep without a request to your subconscious.”
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“Success is 10 percent inspiration and 90 percent perspiration”
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“I’ve realized that most of my best ideas have followed a good night’s sleep.”
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“Opportunity is missed by most because it’s dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
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“It would be sad if we used up fossil fuels before we realized the potential energy from the Sun!”
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“I am more of a sponge than an inventor. I absorb ideas from every source.”
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“Human Beings Only an Aggregate of Cells and the Brain Only a Wonderful Machine, Says Wizard of Electricity”
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“Never go to sleep without a request from your subconscious”
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“When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this - you haven't.”
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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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“Los que dicen que es imposible, no deberían molestar ni interrumpir a los que lo estamos haciendo.”
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“Everything on earth depends on will. I never had an idea in my life. I’ve got no imagination. I never dream. My so-called inventions already existed in the environment—I took them out. I’ve created nothing. Nobody does. There’s no such thing as an idea being brain-born; everything comes from the outside. The industrious one coaxes it from the environment; the drone lets it lie there while he goes off to the baseball game. The ‘genius’ hangs around his laboratory day and night. If anything happens he’s there to catch it; if he wasn’t, it might happen just the same, only it would never be his.”
‘TE quoted by Lucile Erskine in St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 10 Mar. 1912.’
(Excerpt From Edison by Edmund Morris)”
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‘TE quoted by Lucile Erskine in St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 10 Mar. 1912.’
(Excerpt From Edison by Edmund Morris)”
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“Ease is a Greater Threat to Progress than Hardship”
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“Everything on earth depends on will. I never had an idea in my life. I’ve got no imagination. I never dream. My so-called inventions already existed in the environment—I took them out. I’ve created nothing. Nobody does. There’s no such thing as an idea being brain-born; everything comes from the outside. The industrious one coaxes it from the environment; the drone lets it lie there while he goes off to the baseball game. The ‘genius’ hangs around his laboratory day and night. If anything happens he’s there to catch it; if he wasn’t, it might happen just the same, only it would never be his.”
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