An idea is something that won't work unless you do. Thomas A. Edison More Quotes by Thomas A. Edison More Quotes From Thomas A. Edison When we learn how to store electricity, we will cease being apes ourselves; until then we are tailless orangutans. You see, we should utilize natural forces and thus get all of our power. Sunshine is a form of energy, and the winds and the tides are manifestations of energy. Do we use them? Oh, no! We burn up wood and coal, as renters burn up the front fence for fuel. We live like squatters, not as if we owned the property. Thomas A. Edison sunshineenergywind Youth doesn't take advice. Thomas A. Edison youthadvice 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. Thomas A. Edison constitutionpoliticalprinciples No Such Thing as Bad Results Thomas A. Edison results Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. As a result, a genius is often a talented person who has simply done all of his homework. Thomas A. Edison ninety-ninemotivationalinspirational Surprises and reverses can serve as an incentive for great accomplishment. There are no rules here, we're just trying to accomplish something. Thomas A. Edison accomplishmenttryingmotivational Problems in human engineering will receive during the coming years the same genius and attention which the nineteenth century gave to the more material forms of engineering. Thomas A. Edison engineeringscienceyears As Danand Ian over at the Lifestyle Business Podcast say: Rush to failure. Thomas A. Edison lifestyle We have merely scratched the surface of the store of knowledge which will come to us. I believe that we are now, a-tremble on the verge of vast discoveries - discoveries so wondrously important they will upset the present trend of human thought and start it along completely new lines . Thomas A. Edison discoverymotivationalbelieve It is very different to make a practical system and to introduce it. A few experiments in the laboratory would prove the practicability of system long before it could be brought into general use. You can take a pipe and put a little coal in it, close it up, heat it and light the gas that comes out of the stem, but that is not introducing gas lighting. I'll bet that if it were discovered to-morrow in New York that gas could be made out of coal it would be at least five years before the system would be in general use. Thomas A. Edison lightnew-yorkscience The brain can be developed just the same as the muscles Thomas A. Edison painbrainthinking Of the 200 light bulbs that didn't work, every failure told me something that I was able to incorporate into the next attempt. Thomas A. Edison nextablelight I am not overly impressed by the great names and reputations of those who might be trying to beat me to an invention. It's their 'ideas' that appeal to me. I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor Thomas A. Edison namestryingideas A lawsuit is the suicide of time. Thomas A. Edison lawsuitsuicide My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant - but misdirected - ideas of others. Thomas A. Edison motivationalgivingideas I have been at work for some time building an apparatus to see if it is possible for personalities which have left this earth to communicate with us. Thomas A. Edison buildingpersonalityearth My main purpose in life is to make money so I can afford to go on creating more inventions. Thomas A. Edison creatingpurposemotivational It is a terrible situation when the Government, to insure the National Wealth, must go in debt and submit to ruinous interest charges, at the hands of men, who control the fictitious value of gold. Interest is the invention of Satan. Thomas A. Edison goldmenhands Fish seem to be rather conservative around this bay, one seldom catches enough to form the fundamental basis for a lie. Dante left out one of the torments of Hades I could imagine a doomed mortal made to untangle wet fish lines forever. Everybody lost patience at the stupidity of the fish in not coming forward promptly to be murdered. Thomas A. Edison stupidityfishinglying I think work is the world's greatest fun. Thomas A. Edison funworldthinking
