When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes. Thomas A. Edison More Quotes by Thomas A. Edison More Quotes From Thomas A. Edison I am a vegetarian as well as a passionate anti-alcoholic, because I can thus make better use of my brain. Thomas A. Edison passionatebrainanimal Failure is the most effective technique to optimize strategic planning, implementation and processes. Thomas A. Edison planningtechniqueprocess Genius defined: of inspiration 1% percent, of perspiration, 99%. Thomas A. Edison percentgeniusinspiration A failure teaches you that something can't be done-that way. Thomas A. Edison failuredoneway The greatest discoveries will be along spiritual lines. This is the field where miracles are going to happen. Spiritual power is the greatest underdeveloped power and has the greatest future. Thomas A. Edison miraclespiritualdiscovery I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work. Thomas A. Edison motivationalinspirationallife I start where the last man left off. What the mind of man can conceive and believe, the mind of a man can achieve. Thomas A. Edison mindmenbelieve Focus on how the end-user customers perceive the impact of your innovation - rather than on how you, the innovators, perceive it. Thomas A. Edison impactinnovationfocus The beauty of a great idea lies in the art of using it. Thomas A. Edison lyingideasart I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it. I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others. I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it. I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill. The dove is my emblem. Thomas A. Edison technologygivingthinking Barring serious accidents, if you are not preoccupied with worry and you work hard, you can look forward to a reasonably lengthy existence.... Its not the hard work that kills, its the worrying that kills. Thomas A. Edison hard-workworrymotivational Each time you fail, you have eliminated another wrong option. Thomas A. Edison failurefailing Failure is really a matter of conceit. People don't work hard because, in their conceit, they imagine they'll succeed without ever making an effort. Most people believe that they'll wake up some day and find themselves rich. Actually, they've got it half right, because eventually they do wake up. Thomas A. Edison hard-workbelievepeople I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it. Thomas A. Edison technologymightthinking The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus and apply your mental and physical energies to the problem at hand - without growing weary. Because such thinking is often difficult, there seems to be no limit to which some people will go to avoid the effort and labor that is associated with it. Thomas A. Edison motivationalmeaningfulthinking Large portions of life's disappointments are individuals who did not understand that they were so near achievement when they surrendered. Thomas A. Edison individualachievementdisappointment I speak without exaggeration when I say that I have constructed 3,000 different theories in connection with the electric light, each one of them reasonable and apparently likely to be true. Yet only in two cases did my experiments prove the truth of my theory. My chief difficulty was in constructing the carbon filament... Every quarter of the globe was ransacked by my agents, and all sorts of the queerest materials used, until finally the shred of bamboo, now utilized by us, was settled upon. Thomas A. Edison connectionslighttwo I do not believe in the God of the theologians; but that there is a Supreme Intelligence I do not doubt. Thomas A. Edison goddoubtbelieve After we had conducted thousands of experiments on a certain project without solving the problem, one of my associates, after we had conducted the crowning experiment and it had proved a failure, expressed discouragement and disgust over our having failed to find out anything. I cheerily assured him that we had learned something. For we had learned for a certainty that the thing couldnt be done that way, and that we would have to try some other way. Thomas A. Edison donetryingway The injurious agent in cigarettes comes principally from the burning paper wrapper. The substance thereby formed is called "acrolein." It has a violent action on the nerve centers, producing degeneration of the cells of the brain, which is quite rapid among boys. Unlike most narcotics, this degeneration is permanent and uncontrollable. I employ no person who smokes cigarettes. Thomas A. Edison cellsboysscience
