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The dove is my emblem....

The dove is my emblem.

Tomas Edison 442 quotes

I've never made a mistake. I'...

I've never made a mistake. I've only learned from experience.

Tomas Edison 442 quotes

People who will not turn a sho...

People who will not turn a shovel full of dirt on the project (Muscle Shoals Dam) nor contribute a pound of material, will collect more money from the United States than will the People who supply all the material and do all the work. This is the terrible thing about interest.

Tomas Edison 442 quotes

I am much less interested in w...

I am much less interested in what is called God's word than in God's deeds. All bibles are man-made.

Tomas Edison 442 quotes

I consider Paine our greatest ...

I consider Paine our greatest political thinker. As we have not advanced, and perhaps never shall advance, beyond the Declaration and Constitution, so Paine has had no successors who extended his principles.

Tomas Edison 442 quotes

In 'Common Sense' Paine flared...

In 'Common Sense' Paine flared forth with a document so powerful that the Revolution became inevitable. Washington recognized the difference, and in his calm way said that matters never could be the same again.

Tomas Edison 442 quotes

Many a person who could not co...

Many a person who could not comprehend Rousseau, and would be puzzled by Montesquieu, could understand Paine as an open book. He wrote with a clarity, a sharpness of outline and exactness of speech that even a schoolboy should be able to grasp.

Tomas Edison 442 quotes

Nineteen hundred and three wil...

Nineteen hundred and three will bring great advances in surgery, in the study of bacteria, in the knowledge of the cause and prevention of disease. Medicine is played out. Every new discovery of bacteria shows us all the more convincingly that we have been wrong and that the million tons of stuff we have taken was all useless.

Tomas Edison 442 quotes

None of my inventions came by ...

None of my inventions came by accident. I see a worthwhile need to be met and I make trial after trial until it comes. What it boils down to is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Tomas Edison 442 quotes

We are striking it big in the ...

We are striking it big in the electric light, better than my vivid imagination first conceived. Where this thing is going to stop Lord only knows.

Tomas Edison 442 quotes

Radio is just a fashion contri...

Radio is just a fashion contrivance that will soon die out. It is obvious that there never will be invented a proper receiver!

Tomas Edison 442 quotes

I didn't fail ten thousand tim...

I didn't fail ten thousand times.
I successfully eliminated, ten thousand times,
materials and combinations which wouldn't work.

Tomas Edison 442 quotes

There is much more opportunity...

There is much more opportunity than there are people to see it.

Tomas Edison 442 quotes

The First 40 hours of work per...

The First 40 hours of work per week are for survival. Everything after that is for success.

Tomas Edison 442 quotes

Do the thing and the power wil...

Do the thing and the power will come.

Tomas Edison 442 quotes

Ideas without execution are ha...

Ideas without execution are hallucinations.

Tomas Edison 442 quotes

Genius? Nothing! Sticking to i...

Genius? Nothing! Sticking to it is the genius! ...
I've failed my way to success.

Tomas Edison 442 quotes

I will not say I failed 1000 t...

I will not say I failed 1000 times, I will say that I discovered there are 1000 ways that can cause failure

Tomas Edison 442 quotes

The secret of success is focus...

The secret of success is focus of purpose.

Tomas Edison 442 quotes

Success is the product of the ...

Success is the product of the severest kind of mental and physical application,

Tomas Edison 442 quotes

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