To my mind the old masters are not art their value is in their scarcity.
Quote by Thomas A. Edison
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To my mind the old masters are not art their value is in their scarcity.
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Thomas A. Edison Quotes
- Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.
- To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
- Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
- 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.
- There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.
- One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.
- I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun.
- To my mind the old masters are not art their value is in their scarcity.
- The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.
- Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Best Quotes
- Great effort is required to arrest decay and restore vigor. One must exercise proper deliberation, plan carefully before making a move, and be alert in guarding against relapse following a renaissance.
- There is no sin greater than ignorance.
- Pick the day. Enjoy it - to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come... The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present - and I don't want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future.
- There is only one secure foundation: a genuine, deep relationship with Jesus Christ, which will carry you through any and all turmoil. No matter what storms are raging all around, you'll stand firm if you stand on His love.
- The U.S. has since the end of World War II had an answer - we stand for free peoples and free markets, we are willing to support and defend them - we will sustain a balance of power that favors freedom.
- Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.
- Perhaps it is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.
- God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.
- If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
- If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.