"Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration. Accordingly, a 'genius' is often merely a talented person who has done all of his or her homework."
——Thomas Edison
Edison Quotes
- Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
- Inspiration can be found in a pile of junk. Sometimes, you can put it together with a good imagination and invent something.
- Our schools are not teaching students to think. It is astonishing how many young people have difficulty in putting their brains definitely and systematically to work.
- The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness.
- I have far more respect for the person with a single idea who gets there than for the person with a thousand ideas who does nothing.
- Many
of life's failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close
they were to success when they gave up.
- Pretty much everything will come to him who hustles while he waits. I believe that restlessness is discontent, and discontent is merely the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
- Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do in the first place doesn't mean it's useless.
- Surprises
and reverses can serve as an incentive for great
accomplishment. There are no rules here, we're just trying to
accomplish something.
- As a cure for worrying, work is far better than whiskey. I always found that, if I began to worry, the best thing I could do was focus upon doing something useful and then work very hard at it. Soon, I would forget what was troubling me.
- The only time I really become discouraged is when I think of all the things I would like to do and the little time I have in which to do them.
- The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast.
- Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose.
- From his neck down a man is worth a couple of dollars a day, from his neck up he is worth anything that his brain can produce.
- The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patients in the care of the human body, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.
- Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character.
- I am both pleased but astonished by the fact that mankind has not yet begun to use all the means and devices that are available for destruction. I hope that such weapons are never manufactured inquantity.
- I believe that the science of chemistry alone almost proves the existence of an intelligent creator.
- Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and noises that the listeners do not perceive.