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Showing posts with label thomas edison. Show all posts
Showing posts with label thomas edison. Show all posts

Thursday, September 17, 2009

Work can be fun

"I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun." -- Thomas Edison

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Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Edison on Stretching Ourselves

"If we attempted all the things of which we are capable, we would literally astound ourselves." -- Thomas Edison, via a Toastmasters Meeting agenda

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Thursday, March 22, 2007

Thomas Edison on Problem-Solving

"That’s just where your trouble has been. You have tried only reasonable things. Reasonable things never work. Thank God you can’t think up any more reasonable things, so you’ll have to begin thinking up unreasonable things to try, and now you’ll hit the solution in no time." -- Thomas Edison, as quoted in Neil Baldwin's biography, in a retort to a young chemist in Edison’s employ who had tried ‘every reasonable’ approach to solving his problem

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Monday, November 03, 2003

"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls, and looks like work." -- Thomas A. Edison

Tuesday, February 04, 2003

"I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world." -- Thomas A. Edison

Thursday, January 09, 2003

"Genius? Nothing! Sticking to it is the genius! ... I've failed my way to success." -- Thomas Edison

Wednesday, August 21, 2002

"I haven't failed. I've found 10,000 ways that don't work." -- Thomas Edison

Monday, July 15, 2002

"To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk." -- Thomas Edison