The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.
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Other Thomas Edison quotes:
I didn't fail ten thousand times. I successfully eliminated, ten thousand times, materials and combinations which wouldn't work.
When I have finally decided that a result is worth getting, I go ahead on it and make trial after trial until it comes.
To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
The only thing I use my body for is to carry my brain around.
If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.
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.
Large portions of life's disappointments are individuals who did not understand that they were so near achievement when they surrendered.
The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.
Consider data without prejudice.
The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.
