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[Quote No.6959] Need Area: Mind > Learn "Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless." - Thomas Edison Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.8326] Need Area: Mind > Learn "We don’t know one-millionth of one percent about anything.
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[Quote No.23630] Need Area: Mind > Learn "Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration. Accordingly a genius is often merely a talented person who has done all of his or her homework." - Thomas Edison (1847 – 1931) American inventor and businessman who held a world record of 1093 patents for inventions such as the light bulb and phonograph.
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[Quote No.41189] Need Area: Mind > Learn "There's a way to do it better - find it!" - Thomas Edison Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.47246] Need Area: Mind > Learn "[Learning what makes you] Discontent is the first necessity of progress." - Thomas Edison American inventor Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.69061] Need Area: Mind > Imagine "...discontent is the first necessity of progress." - Thomas Edison Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.39157] Need Area: Mind > Focus "The first requisite of success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem without growing weary." - Thomas Edison Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.46880] Need Area: Mind > Focus "Success is the product of the severest kind of mental and physical application." - Thomas Edison Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.54575] Need Area: Mind > Focus "[When asked about his extreme productivity and the stringency of his 18-hour-workdays dedication to success. the inventor Edison explained:]
You do something all day long, don’t you? Everyone does. If you get up at seven o’clock and go to bed at eleven, you have put in sixteen good hours, and it is certain that you have been doing something all that time. The only difference is that you do a great many things and I do one. If you took the time in question and applied it in one direction, you would succeed. Success is sure to follows such application. The trouble lies in the fact that people do not have one thing to stick to, letting all else go." - Thomas Edison Famous inventor Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.3681] Need Area: Mind > Persist "I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward. " - Thomas Edison Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.8077] Need Area: Mind > Persist "If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astonish ourselves.
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[Quote No.8267] Need Area: Mind > Persist "Genius is 1 percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration.
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[Quote No.11986] Need Area: Mind > Persist "Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
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[Quote No.22252] Need Area: Mind > Persist "The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense." - Thomas Edison (1847 – 1931) American inventor and businessman who held a world record of 1093 patents for inventions such as the light bulb and phonograph.
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[Quote No.22253] Need Area: Mind > Persist "Have faith and go forward." - Thomas Edison (1847 – 1931) American inventor and businessman who held a world record of 1093 patents for inventions such as the light bulb and phonograph.
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[Quote No.22477] Need Area: Mind > Persist "The successful person makes a habit of doing what the failing person doesn't do." - Thomas Edison Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.22898] Need Area: Mind > Persist "There's no substitute for hard work." - Thomas Edison Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.23148] Need Area: Mind > Persist "Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up." - Thomas Edison Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.23160] Need Area: Mind > Persist "The three great essentials to achieving anything worthwhile are; first, hard work, second, stick-to-it-iveness, and third, common sense." - Thomas Edison Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.23404] Need Area: Mind > Persist "The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense." - Thomas Edison (1847 – 1931) American inventor and businessman who held a world record of 1093 patents for inventions such as the light bulb and phonograph. Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.23406] Need Area: Mind > Persist "Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration." - Thomas Edison (1847 – 1931) American inventor and businessman who held a world record of 1093 patents for inventions such as the light bulb and phonograph. Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.23817] Need Area: Mind > Persist "Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." - Thomas Edison (1847 - 1931) American inventor and businessman who held a world record of 1093 patents for inventions such as the light bulb and phonograph.
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[Quote No.23828] Need Area: Mind > Persist "I speak without exaggeration when I say that I have constructed three thousand different theories in connection with the electric light, each one of them reasonable and apparently likely to be true. Yet in two cases only did my experiments prove the truth of my theory." - Thomas Edison Inventor of the incandescent light, among many other things. He was known for his creativity and tremendous persistence. Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.30692] Need Area: Mind > Persist "Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time." - Thomas Edison Famous inventor Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.39158] Need Area: Mind > Persist "The first requisite of success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem without growing weary!" - Thomas Edison Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.45002] Need Area: Mind > Persist "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." - Thomas Edison Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.46881] Need Area: Mind > Persist "Success is the product of the severest kind of mental and physical application!" - Thomas Edison Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.49539] Need Area: Mind > Persist "When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this: You haven't!" - Thomas Edison Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.50487] Need Area: Mind > Persist "When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this: you haven't." - Thomas Edison American inventor Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.50504] Need Area: Mind > Persist "Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time." - Thomas Edison Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.54105] Need Area: Mind > Persist "If I find 10,000 ways something won’t work, I haven’t failed. I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
" - Thomas Edison The man who gave us many inventions including the light bulb. Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.54130] Need Area: Mind > Persist "[Thomas Edison, when asked in his later years about the many detours and roadblocks on his road to success, the famous inventor said:] I never failed once. It [success, just] happens to be a 2,000-step process. [People who 'fail' just haven't taken all the necessary steps yet!]" - Thomas Edison (1847 – 1931) American inventor and businessman who held a world record of 1093 patents for inventions such as the light bulb and phonograph.
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[Quote No.62048] Need Area: Mind > Persist "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that don't work." - Thomas Edison Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.66291] Need Area: Mind > Persist "Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up!" - Thomas Edison Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.23405] Need Area: Mind > Evolve "The successful person makes a habit of doing what the failing person doesn't like to do." - Thomas Edison (1847 – 1931) American inventor and businessman who held a world record of 1093 patents for inventions such as the light bulb and phonograph. Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.37058] Need Area: Mind > Progress "Discontent is the first necessity of [further] progress." - Thomas Edison Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.8375] Need Area: Work > Leadership "Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overall and looks like work.
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[Quote No.41188] Need Area: Work > Leadership "There's a way to do it better - find it." - Thomas Edison Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.69062] Need Area: Work > Leadership "...discontent is the first necessity of progress!" - Thomas Edison Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.26221] Need Area: Work > Make "I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others… I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent." - Thomas Edison inventor and scientist Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.34137] Need Area: Work > Make "To invent, you need a good imagination..." - Thomas Edison Famous inventor. Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.47245] Need Area: Work > Sell "Discontent is the first necessity of progress." - Thomas Edison American inventor Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.62049] Need Area: Work > Sell "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that don't work!" - Thomas Edison Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.69063] Need Area: Work > Sell "...discontent is the first necessity of progress!!" - Thomas Edison Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.51504] Need Area: Work > General "[Vocation and career:] The first requisite of success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem without growing weary." - Thomas Edison Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.54576] Need Area: Work > General "[Vocation and career: When asked about his extreme productivity and the stringency of his 18-hour-workdays dedication to success. the inventor Edison explained:]
You do something all day long, don’t you? Everyone does. If you get up at seven o’clock and go to bed at eleven, you have put in sixteen good hours, and it is certain that you have been doing something all that time. The only difference is that you do a great many things and I do one. If you took the time in question and applied it in one direction, you would succeed. Success is sure to follows such application. The trouble lies in the fact that people do not have one thing to stick to, letting all else go.
[But a person cannot apply himself to anything incessantly without growing weary unless he loves it — unless it’s not work, but a passion and a vocation. And that’s the real explanation of Edison’s full use of his time that assured him his work success.]" - Thomas Edison Famous inventor Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.40222] Need Area: Property > Conservation "We are like tenant farmers chopping down the fence around our house for fuel when we should be using Nature's 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." - Thomas Edison (1847 - 1931), inventor. Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.46533] Need Area: Food > General "[Healthy, natural nutrition and diet:] The doctor of the future will no longer treat the human frame with drugs, but rather will cure and prevent disease with nutrition." - Thomas Edison Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.35356] Need Area: Friends > Friends "I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world." - Thomas Edison Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.12298] Need Area: Friends > Conversation "[Remember that other’s opinions and criticism about things can often be completely wrong]
“The phonograph has no commercial value at all." - Thomas Edison American inventor, 1880s
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