If parents pass enthusiasm along to their children, they will leave them an estate of incalculable value….
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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.
What you are will show in what you do.
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.
Because I readily absorb ideas from every source - frequently starting where the last person left off - I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.
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.
Because ideas have to be original only with regard to their adaptation to the problem at hand, I am always extremely interested in how others have used them.
The perils of overwork are slight compared with the dangers of inactivity.
