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Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Thomas A. Edison

Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Thomas A. Edison

They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has, but I notice he usually blunders forward.

Thomas A. Edison

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.

Thomas A. Edison

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.

Thomas A. Edison

Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.

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I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

Thomas A. Edison

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes.

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Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have.

Thomas A. Edison

If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves.

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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.

Thomas A. Edison

The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around.

Thomas A. Edison