The inventor tries to meet the demand of a crazy civilization.
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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.
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.
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 three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.
