Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
Quote by Thomas A. Edison
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Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
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Thomas A. Edison Quotes
- To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
- I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.
- The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.
- I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident they came by work.
- Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.
- Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.
- To my mind the old masters are not art their value is in their scarcity.
- Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.
- Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.
- I know this world is ruled by infinite intelligence. Everything that surrounds us- everything that exists - proves that there are infinite laws behind it. There can be no denying this fact. It is mathematical in its precision.
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- My business is to prevent the future.
- I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
- Most people are satisfied with the junk food being sold as music.
- I love prints of skulls and bones and have some taxidermy - a crow and a rabbit - to remind me of home. I like art and have a big portrait of Bjork.
- If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that we will not be able to free ourselves from it except at a considerable cost.
- Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
- I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours.
- The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.