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#1

“Five percent of the people think;
ten percent of the people think they think;
and the other eighty-five percent would rather die than think.”
― Thomas A. Edison

tags: thinking, willful-ignorance

1251 likes

#2

“Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”
― Thomas A. Edison

tags: inspirational, perseverance, tenacity

1591 likes

#3

“Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.”
― Thomas A. Edison

tags: dedication, inspiration

809 likes

#4

“When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this - you haven't.”
― Thomas Edison

tags: inspirational, wise-words

579 likes

#5

“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.”
― Thomas Edison

447 likes

#6

“To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.”
― Thomas A. Edison

tags: invention, science

396 likes

#7

“There are no rules here -- we're trying to accomplish something.”
― Thomas A. Edison

tags: thomas-a-edison

236 likes

#8

“A vision without execution is an hallucination.”
― Jeffrey E. Garten, The Mind Of The CEO: The World's Business Leaders Talk About Leadership, Responsibility The Future Of The Corporation, And What Keeps Them Up At Night

tags: enterprise

220 likes

#9

“Τίς εἶναι θέλεις, σαυτῷ πρῶτον εἰπέ: εἶθ' οὕτως ποίει ἃ ποιεῖς. (First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.)”
― Epictetus, The Discourses

223 likes

#10

“Negative results are just what I want. They’re just as valuable to me as positive results. I can never find the thing that does the job best until I find the ones that don’t.”
― Thomas A. Edison

tags: experimentation, failure

330 likes

#11

“The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.”
― Thomas A. Edison

tags: common-sense, enterprise, hard-work, inspirational, perseverance, persistence, success, thomas-edison

824 likes

#12

“Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.”
― Thomas A. Edison

201 likes

#13

“The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.”
― Charles de Gaulle

tags: dogs, man

441 likes

#14

“Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.”
― Charles de Gaulle

tags: greatness, inspirational, man, men

108 likes

#15

“I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.”
― Charles de Gaulle

tags: politics

71 likes

#16

“A man of character finds a special attractiveness in difficulty, since it is only by coming to grips with difficulty that he can realize his potentialities.”
― Charles de Gaulle

tags: character, difficulty, perseverance, potentiality, trial

124 likes

#17

“The cemeteries are full of indispensable men.”
― Charles de Gaulle

tags: current-events, humor

34 likes

#18

“Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.”
― Charles de Gaulle

45 likes

#19

“Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.”
― Charles de Gaulle

11 likes

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