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 Edison
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time. - Thomas Edison
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 Edison
Nearly every man who develops an idea works it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then he gets discouraged. That's not the place to become discouraged. - Thomas Edison
I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work. - Thomas Edison
VAMPIRES - In order to truly have success in your life one truly has to have clarity in their life. The way clarity shows up is when one executes in doing what they say and saying what they do. If you’re not satisfied as to where you are at today in life you might want to start getting the vampires out of your life. - Thomas Edison
The doctor of the future will give no medicine but will instruct his patient in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease. They may even discover the germ of old age. - Thomas Edison
I do not believe in God of the theologians; but that there is a supreme intelligence I do not doubt. - Thomas Edison
We shall have no better conditions in the future if we are satisfied with all those which we have at present. - Thomas Edison
I readily absorb ideas from every source, frequently starting where the last person left off. - Thomas 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. - Thomas Edison
Inspiration can be found in a pile of junk. Sometimes, you can put it together with a good imagination and invent something. - Thomas Edison
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. - Thomas Edison
Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose. - Thomas Edison
Someday, man will harness the rise and fall of the tides, imprison the power of the sun, and release atomic power. - Thomas Edison
If parents pass enthusiasm along to their children, they will leave them an estate of incalculable value. - Thomas Edison
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