I Know This World Is Ruled By Infinite Intelligence. It Required Infinite Intelligence To Create It And It Requires Infinite Intelligence To Keep It On Its Course ... It Is Mathematical In Its Precision.

-Thomas A. Edison

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I Know This World

Thomas A. Edison

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Infinite Intelligence

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What A Man's Mind Can Create, Man's Character Can Control.

Character

Angel

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I Am Long On Ideas, But Short On Time. I Expect To Live To Be Only About A Hundred.

Inspirational

Life

Birthday

For Faith, As Well Intentioned As It May Be, Must Be Built On Facts, Not Fiction - Faith In Fiction Is A Damnable False Hope.

Religious

Fiction

May

The Secret Of Success Is Focus Of Purpose.

Focus

Secret

Purpose

They Were Not Failures, They Were New Found Ways Of What Does Not Work "i Can Accept Failure,everyonefails At Something. But I Can't Accept Not Trying

Trying

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Friendship Is The Heaven Of Life.

Heaven

Mr. Edison Worked Endlessly On A Problem, Using The Method Of Elimination. If A Person Asked Him If He Were Discouraged Because So Many Attempts Proved Unavailing, He Would Say, "no, I Am Not Discouraged, Because Every Wrong Attempt Discarded Is Another Step Forward.".

Steps

Problem

Discouraged

I Never Quit Until I Get What I Want.

Want

Never Quit

Quitting

The Dove Is My Emblem.

Technology

Dove

Emblems

I'd Put My Money On The Sun And Solar Energy. What A Source Of Power! I Hope We Don't Have To Wait Until Oil And Coal Run Out Before We Tackle That.

Running

Nature

Hydrogen Fuel

Two Per Cent. Is Genius, And Ninety-eight Per Cent. Is Hard Work.

Hard Work

Science

Eight

Genius Defined: Of Inspiration 1% Percent, Of Perspiration, 99%.

Inspiration

Genius

Percent

Genius Is Not Inspired. Inspiration Is Perspiration.

Inspiration

Hard Work

Science

Nature Made Us - Nature Did It All - Not The Gods Of The Religions.

Made

Absorb Ideas From Every Source.

Ideas

Source

I Have Better Use For My Brain Than To Poison It With Alcohol. To Put Alcohol In The Human Brain Is Like Putting Sand In The Bearings Of An Engine.

Alcohol

Brain

Poison

I Get My Ideas From Listening From Within.

Ideas

Listening

I Do Not Believe Any Type Of Religion Should Ever Be Introduced Into The Public Schools Of The United States.

Atheist

Believe

School

I Have Not Failed. I've Just Found 10,000 Ways That Won't Work.

Inspirational

Funny

Motivational

Large Portions Of Life's Disappointments Are Individuals Who Did Not Understand That They Were So Near Achievement When They Surrendered.

Disappointment

Achievement

Individual

I Never Failed. It Just Didn't Work 10,000 Times.

My Main Purpose In Life Is To Make Enough Money To Create Ever More Inventions…. The Dove Is My Emblem…. I Want To Save And Advance Human Life, Not Destroy It…. I Am Proud Of The Fact That I Have Never Invented Weapons To Kill….

Inspirational

Purpose

Want

Each Time You Fail, You Have Eliminated Another Wrong Option.

Failure

Failing

I Owe My Success To The Fact That I Never Had A Clock In My Workroom. Seventy-five Of Us Worked Twenty Hours Every Day And Slept Only Four Hours - And Thrived On It.

Twenties

Four

Facts

People Who Will Not Turn A Shovel Full Of Dirt On The Project (muscle Shoals Dam) Nor Contribute A Pound Of Material, Will Collect More Money From The United States Than Will The People Who Supply All The Material And Do All The Work. This Is The Terrible Thing About Interest.

People

United States

Dams

The Body Is A Community Made Up Of Its Innumerable Cells Or Inhabitants.

Cells

Community

Body

A Good Idea Is Never Lost. Even Though Its Originator Or Possessor May Die, It Will Someday Be Reborn In The Mind Of Another.

Motivational

Ideas

Mind

Sleep Is Like A Drug. Take Too Much At A Time And It Makes You Dopey. You Lose Time And Opportunities.

Sleep

Opportunity

Drug

Never Go To Sleep Without A Request To Your Subconscious.

Sleep

Mind

Subconscious

Any Large Extension Of The Government Into Business Affairs - No Matter What The Pretense And No Matter How The The Extension Is Labeled - Will Be Bound To Promote Waste And Put A Curb On Our Prosperity And Progress.

Government

Progress

Matter

Our Greatest Weakness Lies In Giving Up. The Most Certain Way To Succeed Is Always To Try Just One More Time.

Inspirational

Motivational

Positive

The Doctor Of The Future Will No Longer Treat The Human Frame With Drugs, But Rather Will Cure And Prevent Disease With Nutrition.

Motivational

Fitness

Health

Incurably Religious, That Is The Best Way To Describe The Mental Condition Of So Many People.

Religious

People

Atheism

I Have Not Failed 10,000 Times. I Have Succeeded In Proving That Those 10,000 Ways Will Not Work.

Inspiring

Success

Business

The Entity That Gives Life And Motion To The Human Body Is Finer Still And Lies Infinitely Beyond The Reach Of Our Finest Scientific Instruments. When This Entity Deserts The Body, The Body Is Like A Ship Without A Rudder - Deserted, Motionless, Dead.

Lying

Giving

Soul

I Am Both Pleased But Astonished By The Fact That Mankind Has Not Yet Begun To Use All The Means And Devices That Are Available For Destruction. I Hope That Such Weapons Are Never Manufactured In Quantity.

Motivational

Mean

Use

Waste Is Worse Than Loss. The Time Is Coming When Every Person Who Lays Claim To Ability Will Keep The Question Of Waste Before Him Constantly. The Scope Of Thrift Is Limitless.

Time

Loss

Lost Friendship

Never Say I Failed 99 Times, Say I Discovered 99 Ways Which Causes Failure!

Way

Causes

I Cannot Believe In The Immortality Of The Soul. No, All This Talk Of An Existence For Us, As Individuals, Beyond The Grave Is Wrong. It Is Born Of Our Tenacity Of Life - Our Desire To Go On Living - Our Dread Of Coming To An End.

Atheist

Believe

Soul

A Diamond Is A Piece Of Coal That Stuck To The Job

Jobs

Coal

Pieces

I Am Quite Correctly Described As 'more Of A Sponge Than An Inventor....'

Motivational

Sponges

Inventor

Five Percent Of The People Think; Ten Percent Of The People Think They Think; And The Other Eighty-five Percent Would Rather Die Than Think.

Thinking

People

Willful Ignorance

I Think That Ingersoll Had All The Attributes Of A Perfect Man, And, In My Opinion, No Finer Personality Ever Existed. Judging From The Past, I Cannot Help Thinking That The Intention Of The Supreme Intelligence That Rules The World Is To Ultimately Make Such A Type Of Man Universal.

Past

Men

Thinking

Success Is Based On Imagination Plus Ambition And The Will To Work.

Ambition

Imagination

Plus

The Three Things That Are Most Essential To Achievement Are Common Sense, Hard Work And Stick-to-it-iv-ness... Unfortunately, Many Of Life's Failures Are Experienced By People Who Did Not Realize How Close They Were To Success When They Gave Up. 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.

Hard Work

Adventure

Ideas

The Greatest Invention In The World Is The Mind Of A Child.

Children

Imagination

Innovation

Genius? Nothing! Sticking To It Is The Genius! Any Other Bright-minded Fellow Can Accomplish Just As Much If He Will Stick Like Hell And Remember Nothing That's Any Good Works By Itself. You've Got To Make The Damn Thing Work!...i Failed My Way To Success.

Genius

Way

Sticks

When I Have Eliminated The Ways That Will Not Work, I Will Find The Way That Will Work.

Way

Martial Arts

Non-violence Leads To The Highest Ethics, Which Is The Goal Of All Evolution. Until We Stop Harming All Other Living Beings, We Are Still Savages.

Life

Peace

Honesty

We Are Striking It Big In The Electric Light, Better Than My Vivid Imagination First Conceived. Where This Thing Is Going To Stop Lord Only Knows.

Light

Vivid Imagination

Firsts

It Has Been Just So In All My Inventions. The First Step Is An Intuition-and Comes With A Burst, Then Difficulties Arise. This Thing That Gives Out And Then That-"bugs"as Such Little Faults And Difficulties Are Called Show Themselves And Months Of Anxious Watching, Study And Labor Are Requisite Before Commercial Success-or Failure-is Certainly Reached.

Success

Science

Giving

One Might Think That The Money Value Of An Invention Constitutes Its Reward To The Man Who Loves His Work. But... I Continue To Find My Greatest Pleasure, And So My Reward, In The Work That Precedes What The World Calls Success.

Love

Inspirational

Success

Genius Is One Percent Inspiration And Ninety-nine Percent Perspiration. As A Result, A Genius Is Often A Talented Person Who Has Simply Done All Of His Homework.

Inspirational

Motivational

Ninety Nine

My Mind Is Incapable Of Conceiving Such A Thing As A Soul. I May Be In Error, And Man May Have A Soul; But I Simply Do Not Believe It.

Believe

Men

Errors

We Haven't Failed. We Now Know A Thousand Things That Won't Work, So We Are Much Closer To Finding What Will.

Educational

Thousand

Findings

We Shall Have No Better Conditions In The Future If We Are Satisfied With All Those Which We Have At Present.

Self Confidence

Design

Complacency

No Such Thing As Bad Results

Results

Of All My Inventions, I Liked The Phonograph Best

Great Inventions

Invention

Phonograph

Failure Is Really A Matter Of Conceit. People Don't Work Hard Because, In Their Conceit, They Imagine They'll Succeed Without Ever Making An Effort. Most People Believe That They'll Wake Up Some Day And Find Themselves Rich. Actually, They've Got It Half Right, Because Eventually They Do Wake Up.

Believe

Hard Work

People

After We Had Conducted Thousands Of Experiments On A Certain Project Without Solving The Problem, One Of My Associates, After We Had Conducted The Crowning Experiment And It Had Proved A Failure, Expressed Discouragement And Disgust Over Our Having Failed To Find Out Anything. I Cheerily Assured Him That We Had Learned Something. For We Had Learned For A Certainty That The Thing Couldnt Be Done That Way, And That We Would Have To Try Some Other Way.

Trying

Done

Way

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.

Inspirational

Motivational

Single

A Genius Is A Talented Person Who Does His Homework.

Ballet

Doe

Genius

The Value Of A Good Idea Is In Using It.

Ideas

Good Ideas

Values

Nineteen Hundred And Three Will Bring Great Advances In Surgery, In The Study Of Bacteria, In The Knowledge Of The Cause And Prevention Of Disease. Medicine Is Played Out. Every New Discovery Of Bacteria Shows Us All The More Convincingly That We Have Been Wrong And That The Million Tons Of Stuff We Have Taken Was All Useless.

Taken

Discovery

Medicine

Everything Comes To Those Who Hustle While They Wait.

Sports

Encouragement

Accomplishment

There's A Way To Do It Better - Find It.

Positive

Business

Creativity

A Man’s Best Friend Is A Good Wife.

Inspirational

Men

Wife

I Have A Peculiar Theory About Radium, And I Believe It Is The Correct One. I Believe That There Is Some Mysterious Ray Pervading The Universe That Is Fluorescing To It. In Other Words, That All Its Energy Is Not Self-constructed But That There Is A Mysterious Something In The Atmosphere That Scientists Have Not Found That Is Drawing Out Those Infinitesimal Atoms And Distributing Them Forcefully And Indestructibly.

Believe

Science

Self

Restlessness Is Discontent And Discontent Is The First Necessity Of Progress. Show Me A Thoroughly Satisfied Man And I Will Show You A Failure.

Inspirational

Motivational

Failure

I Told [kruesi] I Was Going To Record Talking, And Then Have The Machine Talk Back. He Thought It Absurd. However, It Was Finished, The Foil Was Put On; I Then Shouted "mary Had A Little Lamb," Etc. I Adjusted The Reproducer, And The Machine Reproduced It Perfectly. On First Words Spoken On A Phonograph.

Science

Talking

Machines

Religion Is All Bunk.

Atheist

Religion

Atheism

Nature Is Truly Wonderful. Only Man Is Truly Foul.

Men

Wonderful

Foul

Interest Is The Invention Of Satan.

Satan

Invention

Interest

So Far As The Religion Of The Day Is Concerned, It Is A Damned Fake ... Religion Is All Bunk.

Atheist

If There Is A God

Fake

To Those Searching For Truth -- Not The Truth Of Dogma And Darkness But The Truth Brought By Reason, Search, Examination, And Inquiry, Discipline Is Required. For Faith, As Well Intentioned As It May Be, Must Be Built On Facts, Not Fiction -- Faith In Fiction Is A Damnable False Hope.

Faith

Discipline

Darkness

Surprises And Reverses Can Serve As An Incentive For Great Accomplishment. There Are No Rules Here, We're Just Trying To Accomplish Something.

Motivational

Accomplishment

Trying

I Am Afraid Of Radium And Polonium ... I Don't Want To Monkey With Them.

Science

Want

Monkeys

Vision Without Execution Is Delusion.

Positive

Vision

Execution

Anything That Won't Sell, I Don't Want To Invent. Its Sale Is Proof Of Utility, And Utility Is Success.

Inspirational

Positive

Business

It Is Remarkable To What Lengths People Will Go To Avoid Thought.

People

Length

Remarkable

I Have Had A Lot Of Success With Failure

Just Because Something Doesn't Do What You Planned It To Do Doesn't Mean It's Useless.

Positive

Mean Girls

Funny Inspirational

I Never Did Anything By Accident, Nor Did Any Of My Inventions Come By Accident; They Came By Work.

Inspirational

Life

Motivational

Discontent Is The First Necessity Of Progress.

Inspirational

Motivational

Happiness

The Only Time I Really Become Discouraged Is When I Think Of All The Things I Would Like To Do And The Little Time I Have In Which To Do Them.

Motivational

Thinking

Littles

I Was Always Afraid Of Things That Worked The First Time. Long Experience Proved That There Were Great Drawbacks Found Generally Before They Could Be Got Commercial; But Here Was Something There Was No Doubt Of.

Success

Science

Long

I Have Never Seen The Slightest Scientific Proof Of The Religious Ideas Of Heaven And Hell, Of Future Life For Individuals, Or Of A Personal God.

Religious

Atheist

If There Is A God

It Is Absurd To Say That Our Country Can Issue $30,000,000 In Bonds And Not $30,000,000 In Currency. Both Are Promises To Pay; But One Promise Fattens The Usurer (banker), And The Other Helps The People. If The Currency Issued By The Government Were No Good, Then The Bonds Issued Would Be No Good Either. It Is A Terrible Situation When The Government, To Increase The National Wealth, Must Go Into Debt And Submit To Ruinous Interest Charges At The Hands Of Men Who Control The Fictitious Values Of Gold.

Country

Men

Issues

The Endeavor To Change Universal Power By Selfish Supplication I Do Not Believe In.

Selfish

Believe

Religion

First Be Sure A Thing Is Wanted Or Needed, Then Go Ahead.

Firsts

Needed

Wanted

My Success Is Due More To My Ability To Work Continuously On One Thing Without Stopping Than To Any Other Single Quality.

Quality

Stopping

Ability

A Failure Teaches You That Something Can't Be Done-that Way.

Failure

Done

Way

I Never View Mistakes As Failures. They Are Simply Opportunities To Find Out What Doesn't Work.

Mistake

Failure

Opportunity

The Great Trouble Is That The Preachers Get The Children From Six To Seven Years Of Age And Then It Is Almost Impossible To Do Anything With Them.

Children

Years

Religion

It Is The Best Book Ever Written On The Subject. There Is Nothing Like It!

Book

Religion

Atheism

You Can't Realize Your Dreams Unless You Have One To Begin With.

Dream

Goal

Realizing

They Say President Wilson Has Blundered. Perhaps He Has, But I Notice He Usually Blunders Forward.

Failure

President

Wilson

The Brain Can Be Developed Just The Same As The Muscles Can Be Developed, If On Will Only Take The Pains To Train The Mind To Think.

Pain

Thinking

Brain

The Three Things That Are Most Essential To Achievement Are Common Sense, Hard Work And Stick-to-it-iv-ness.

Motivational

Hard Work

Persistence

The Bible Of Nature Is The Best Damn Bible In The World. Its Laws Are Perfect And Grand, And All The Prayers In The World Can't Change Them. There Is Intelligence And Law In This World, And There May Be Supreme Intelligence And Law, But So Far As The Religion Of The Day Is Concerned, It Is All A Damned Fake.

Prayer

Law

Perfect

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.

Motivational

Positive

Perseverance

Perhaps Dandruff Is The Excreta Of The Mind The Quantity Of This Material Being Directly Proportional To The Amount Of Reading One Indulges In. A Book On German Metaphysics Would Thus Easily Ruin A Dress Suit.

Book

Reading

Indulge In

If We Did All The Things We Are Capable Of Doing, We Would Literally Astound Ourselves.

Inspirational

Motivational

Positive

Many Of Life's Failures Are People Who Did Not Realize How Close They Were To Success When They Gave Up.

Inspirational

Life

Motivational

I Do Not Believe In The God Of The Theologians; But That There Is A Supreme Intelligence I Do Not Doubt.

God

Believe

Doubt

All Bibles Are Man-made.

Bible

Men

Religion

I Find Out What The World Needs. Then I Go Ahead And Try To Invent It

Inspirational

Science

Trying

The Real Measure Of Success Is The Number Of Experiments That Can Be Crowded Into 24 Hours.

Success

Real

Numbers

Be Courageous! Have Faith! Go Forward.

Motivational

Courage

Have Faith

When We Learn How To Store Electricity, We Will Cease Being Apes Ourselves; Until Then We Are Tailless Orangutans. You See, We Should Utilize Natural Forces And Thus Get All Of Our Power. Sunshine Is A Form Of Energy, And The Winds And The Tides Are Manifestations Of Energy. Do We Use Them? Oh, No! We Burn Up Wood And Coal, As Renters Burn Up The Front Fence For Fuel. We Live Like Squatters, Not As If We Owned The Property.

Sunshine

Wind

Energy

Every Failure Is A Lesson Learned About Your Strategy.

Lesson Learned

Lessons

Strategy

I Try Not To Invent Things That People Don't Need.

Infinite Intelligence

World

I Find My Greatest Pleasure, And So My Reward, In The Work That Precedes What The World Calls Success.

Funny

Success

Motivation

Results? Why, Man, I Have Gotten Lots Of Results! If I Find 10,000 Ways Something Won't Work, I Haven't Failed. I Am Not Discouraged, Because Every Wrong Attempt Discarded Is Often A Step Forward.

Motivational

Suicidal

Men

My Principal Business Is Giving Commercial Value To The Brilliant - But Misdirected - Ideas Of Others.

Motivational

Ideas

Giving

Results! Why, Man, I Have Gotten A Lot Of Results. I Know Several Thousand Things That Won't Work.

Motivational

Education

Work

I Didn't Fail 1000 Times. The Light Bulb Was An Invention With 1000 Steps.

Light

Steps

Self Discipline

What Is A College? An Institute Of Learning. What Is A Business? An Institute Of Learning. Life, Itself, Is An Institute Of Learning.

College

Never Stop Learning

Learning Life

I Know This World Is Ruled By Infinite Intelligence. Everything That Surrounds Us- Everything That Exists - Proves That There Are Infinite Laws Behind It. There Can Be No Denying This Fact. It Is Mathematical In Its Precision.

Spiritual

Infinite Intelligence

Law

We Have Merely Scratched The Surface Of The Store Of Knowledge Which Will Come To Us. I Believe That We Are Now, A-tremble On The Verge Of Vast Discoveries - Discoveries So Wondrously Important They Will Upset The Present Trend Of Human Thought And Start It Along Completely New Lines .

Motivational

Believe

Discovery

There Is No Limit To Which A Man Will Not Go To Avoid Thinking.

Men

Thinking

Limits

It Is Very Different To Make A Practical System And To Introduce It. A Few Experiments In The Laboratory Would Prove The Practicability Of System Long Before It Could Be Brought Into General Use. You Can Take A Pipe And Put A Little Coal In It, Close It Up, Heat It And Light The Gas That Comes Out Of The Stem, But That Is Not Introducing Gas Lighting. I'll Bet That If It Were Discovered To-morrow In New York That Gas Could Be Made Out Of Coal It Would Be At Least Five Years Before The System Would Be In General Use.

New York

Science

Light

It Is Very Beautiful Over There. (last Words)

Beautiful

Lasts

Last Words

I Didn’t Fail Ten Thousand Times. I Successfully Eliminated, Ten Thousand Times, Materials And Combinations Which Wouldn’t Work.

Failing

Combination

Thousand

It Is The People Who Constitute The Basis Of Government Credit. Why Then Cannot The People Have Benefit Of Their Own Gilt-edge Credit By Receiving Non-interest Bearing Currency-instead Of Bankers Receiving The Benefit Of The People's Credit In Interest-bearing Bonds. If The United States Government Will Adopt This Policy Of Increasing Its National Wealth Without Contributing To The Interest Collector-for The Whole National Debt Is Made Up On Interest Charges-then You Will See An Era Of Progress And Prosperity In This Country Such As Could Never Have Come Otherwise.

Country

Government

People

The Injurious Agent In Cigarettes Comes Principally From The Burning Paper Wrapper. The Substance Thereby Formed Is Called "acrolein." It Has A Violent Action On The Nerve Centers, Producing Degeneration Of The Cells Of The Brain, Which Is Quite Rapid Among Boys. Unlike Most Narcotics, This Degeneration Is Permanent And Uncontrollable. I Employ No Person Who Smokes Cigarettes.

Science

Boys

Cells

The Very First Thing An Executive Must Have Is A Fine Memory. Of Course It Does Not Follow That A Man With A Fine Memory Is Necessarily A Fine Executive. But If He Has The Memory He Has The First Qualification, And If He Has Not The Memory Nothing Else Matters.

Memories

Men

Doe

A Reporter Called On Edison To Interview Him About A Substitute For Lead In The Manufacture Of Storage Batteries That The Scientist Was Seeking. Edison Informed The Man That He Had Made 20,000 Experiments But None Had Worked. "aren't You Discouraged By All This Waste Of Effort?" The Reporter Asked. Edison: "waste! There's Nothing Wasted. I Have Discovered 20,000 Things That Won't Work."

Work

Men

Discovery

To Invent, You Need A Good Imagination And A Pile Of Junk.

Inspirational

Science

Imagination Creativity

That Is To Say, Under The Old Way Any Time We Wish To Add To The National Wealth We Are Compelled To Add To The National Debt. Now, That Is What Henry Ford Wants To Prevent. He Thinks It Is Stupid, And So Do I, That For The Loan Of $30,000,000 Of Their Own Money The People Of The United States Should Be Compelled To Pay $66,000,000 - That Is What It Amounts To, With Interest.

Stupid

Thinking

People

My Mother Was The Making Of Me. She Was So True And So Sure Of Me, I Felt That I Had Someone To Live For - Someone I Must Not Disappoint. The Memory Of My Mother Will Always Be A Blessing To Me.

Mom

Mother

Appreciation

Most Of My Ideas Belonged To Other People Who Never Bothered To Develop Them.

Ideas

People

Bothered

It Is A Terrible Situation When The Government, To Insure The National Wealth, Must Go In Debt And Submit To Ruinous Interest Charges, At The Hands Of Men, Who Control The Fictitious Value Of Gold. Interest Is The Invention Of Satan.

Men

Hands

Gold

I Have Not Failed 700 Times. I Have Not Failed Once. I Have Succeeded In Proving That Those 700 Ways Will Not Work. When I Have Eliminated The Ways That Will Not Work, I Will Find The Way That Will Work.

Inspirational

Failure

Way

Great Ideas Originate In The Muscles.

Life

Motivation

Work

If Parents Pass Enthusiasm Along To Their Children, They Will Leave Them An Estate Of Incalculable Value

Motivational

Family

Education

Time Is Really The Only Capital That Any Human Being Has, And The Only Thing He Can't Afford To Lose.

Time

Humans

Human Beings

Nothing That's Good Works By Itself, You've Got To Make The Damn Thing Work.

Good Work

Damn

Damn Things

The Roots Of Tobacco Plants Must Go Clear Through To Hell. Satan's Principal Agent Dyspepsia Must Have Charge Of This Branch Of The Vegetable Kingdom.

Vegetables

Roots

Agents

Ideas Without Execution Are Hallucinations.

Ideas

Hallucinations

Execution

Good Fortune Is What Happens When Opportunity Meets With Planning.

Opportunity

Optimism

Luck

Personally, I Enjoy Working About 18 Hours A Day. Besides The Short Catnaps I Take Each Day, I Average About Four To Five Hours Of Sleep Per Night.

Inspirational

Motivational

Sleep

Problems In Human Engineering Will Receive During The Coming Years The Same Genius And Attention Which The Nineteenth Century Gave To The More Material Forms Of Engineering. We Have Laid Good Foundations For Industrial Prosperity, Now We Want To Assure The Happiness And Growth Of The Workers Through Vocational Education, Vocational Guidance, And Wisely Managed Employment Departments. A Great Field For Industrial Experimentation And Statemanship Is Opening Up.

Science

Engineering

Years

Accomplishing Something Provides The Only Real Satisfaction In Life.

Real

Satisfaction In Life

Satisfaction

There Is A Better Way For Everything. Find It.

Inspirational

Way

Better Ways

Everyone Steals In Commerce And Industry. I've Stolen A Lot, Myself. But I Know How To Steal! They Don't Know How To Steal!

Stealing

Stolen

Commerce

I Think Work Is The World's Greatest Fun.

Fun

Thinking

World

I Will Not Say I Failed 1000 Times, I Will Say That I Discovered There Are 1000 Ways That Can Cause Failure

Way

Causes

To My Mind The Old Masters Are Not Art; Their Value Is In Their Scarcity.

Art

Philosophy

History

When I Have Fully Decided That A Result Is Worth Getting I Go Ahead Of It And Make Trial After Trial Until It Comes.

Inspirational

Perseverance

Life Lesson

I Have Been At Work For Some Time Building An Apparatus To See If It Is Possible For Personalities Which Have Left This Earth To Communicate With Us.

Personality

Earth

Building

I Know Of Over 3,000 Ways [that] A Light Bulb Does Not Work.

Light

Doe

Way

If I Could Solve All The Problems Myself, I Would.

Teamwork

Team Work

Collaboration

Success Is The Product Of The Severest Kind Of Mental And Physical Application.

Kind

Application

Products

We Tried Some Experiments In Mind Reading Which Were Not Very Successful. Think Mind Reading Contrary To Common Sense, Wise Provision Of The Bon Dieu That We Cannot Read Each Others Minds, Twould Stop Civilization And Everybody Would Take To The Woods. In Fifty Or Hundred Thousand Centuries When Mankind Have Become Perfect By Evolution Then Perhaps This Sense Could Be Developed With Safety To The State.

Wise

Reading

Successful

I Am A Vegetarian As Well As A Passionate Anti-alcoholic, Because I Can Thus Make Better Use Of My Brain.

Animal

Brain

Passionate

Negative Results Are Just What I Want. They’re Just As Valuable To Me As Positive Results. I Can Never Find The Thing That Does The Job Best Until I Find The Ones That Don’t.

Success

Jobs

Failure

Having A Vision For What You Want Is Not Enough...vision Without Execution Is Hallucination

Motivational

Entrepreneur

Vision

There Is A Better Way To Do It - Find It!

Way

Better Ways

Focus On How The End-user Customers Perceive The Impact Of Your Innovation - Rather Than On How You, The Innovators, Perceive It.

Impact

Focus

Innovation

Be Courageous. I Have Seen Many Depressions In Business. Always America Has Emerged From These Stronger And More Prosperous. Be Brave As Your Fathers Before You. Have Faith! Go Forward!

Faith

Courage

Father

When There's No Experimenting There's No Progress. Stop Experimenting And You Go Backward. If Anything Goes Wrong, Experiment Until You Get To The Very Bottom Of The Trouble.

Progress

Anything Goes

Trouble

A Teacher Sent The Following Note Home With A Six-year-old Boy 'he Is Too Stupid To Learn.' That Boy Was Thomas A. Edison.

Teacher

Stupid

Home

Education Isn't Play--and It Can't Be Made To Look Like Play. It Is Hard, Hard Work. But It Can Be Made Interesting Work.

Education

Hard Work

Play

Tomorrow Is My Exam But I Don’t Care Because A Single Sheet Of Paper Can’t Decide My Future

Paper

Care

Tomorrow

I Believe That The Science Of Chemistry Alone Almost Proves The Existence Of An Intelligent Creator.

Inspirational

Motivational

Believe

People Are Not Remembered By How Few Times They Fail, But By How Often They Succeed. Every Wrong Step Is Another Step Forward

People

Succeed

Steps

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.

Inspirational

Motivational

Real

The Biggest Failure Of Man Is That He Gives Up Before He Realizes How Close He Was To Success.

Sports

Giving Up

Men

Barring Serious Accidents, If You Are Not Preoccupied With Worry And You Work Hard, You Can Look Forward To A Reasonably Lengthy Existence.... Its Not The Hard Work That Kills, Its The Worrying That Kills.

Motivational

Hard Work

Worry

I've Realized That Most Of My Best Ideas Have Followed A Good Night's Sleep.

Good Night

Sleep

Night

Success Is The Result Of Hard Work.

Hard Work

Mathematics

Results

Of The 200 Light Bulbs That Didn't Work, Every Failure Told Me Something That I Was Able To Incorporate Into The Next Attempt.

Light

Able

None Of My Inventions Came By Accident. I See A Worthwhile Need To Be Met And I Make Trial After Trial Until It Comes. What It Boils Down To Is One Per Cent Inspiration And Ninety-nine Per Cent Perspiration.

Inspiration

Ninety Nine

Needs

I Remember That I Was Never Able To Get Along At School. I Was At The Foot Of The Class.

Education

School

Class

Genius Is 1 Percent Inspiration, 99 Percent Perspiration.

Inspirational

Educational

Genius

The Successful Person Makes A Habit Of Doing What The Failing Person Doesn't Like To Do.

Success

Commitment

Action

Inspiration Can Be Found In A Pile Of Junk. Sometimes, You Can Put It Together With A Good Imagination And Invent Something.

Inspiration

Imagination

Together

In 'common Sense' Paine Flared Forth With A Document So Powerful That The Revolution Became Inevitable. Washington Recognized The Difference, And In His Calm Way Said That Matters Never Could Be The Same Again.

Powerful

Differences

Common Sense

There Is Much More Opportunity Than There Are People To See It.

Opportunity

People

There Is Time For Everything.

Motivational

Time

Peace

Radio Is Just A Fashion Contrivance That Will Soon Die Out. It Is Obvious That There Never Will Be Invented A Proper Receiver!

Fashion

Radio

Obvious

The First Requisite For Success Is To Develop The Ability To Focus And Apply Your Mental And Physical Energies To The Problem At Hand - Without Growing Weary. Because Such Thinking Is Often Difficult, There Seems To Be No Limit To Which Some People Will Go To Avoid The Effort And Labor That Is Associated With It.

Motivational

Meaningful

Thinking

The Strength Of The Constitution, Lies In The Will Of The People To Defend It.

Lying

People

Liberty

Nature Is What We Know. We Do Not Know The Gods Of Religions. And Nature Is Not Kind, Or Merciful, Or Loving. If God Made Me - The Fabled God Of The Three Qualities Of Which I Spoke: Mercy, Kindness, Love - He Also Made The Fish I Catch And Eat. And Where Do His Mercy, Kindness, And Love For That Fish Come In? No; Nature Made Us - Nature Did It All - Not The Gods Of The Religions.

Kindness

Quality

And Love

I Never Once Made A Discovery ... I Speak Without Exaggeration That I Have Constructed Three Thousand Different Theories In Connection With The Electric Light ... Yet In Only Two Cases Did My Experiments Prove The Truth Of My Theory.

Light

Discovery

Two

Before You Reject An Idea, Find At Least Five Good Things About It.

Ideas

Imagination

Good Things

The Best Thinking Has Been Done In Solitude. The Worst Has Been Done In Turmoil.

Thinking

Solitude

Innovation

Never Be Discouraged, Because Every Wrong Turn Attempt, When Left Behind You, Is Another Step Forward Taking You Closer To Your Goals.

Powerful

Goal

Behind You

There Is Far More Opportunity Than There Is Ability.

Courage

Opportunity

Ability

Through All The Years Of Experimenting And Research, I Never Once Made A Discovery. I Start Where The Last Man Left Off... All My Work Was Deductive, And The Results I Achieved Were Those Of Invention Pure And Simple.

Simple

Men

Discovery

There Seems To Be No Limit To Which Some Men Will Go To Avoid The Labor Of Thinking. Thinking Is Hard Work.

Hard Work

Men

Thinking

It Is Apparent To Me That The Possibilities Of The Aeroplane, Which Two Or Three Years Ago Were Thought To Hold The Solution To The [flying Machine] Problem, Have Been Exhausted, And That We Must Turn Elsewhere.

Years

Two

Flying

As Danand Ian Over At The Lifestyle Business Podcast Say: Rush To Failure.

Lifestyle

To Have A Great Idea, Have A Lot Of Them.

Positive

Smart

Failure

Invention Is 10% Inspiration And 90% Perspiration.

Inspiration

Design

Invention

The Three Great Essentials To Achieve Anything Worth While Are: Hard Work, Stick-to-itiveness, And Common Sense.

Success

Work

Common Sense

Fools Call Wise Men Fools. A Wise Man Never Calls Any Man A Fool.

Inspirational

Wise

Men

Until Man Duplicates A Blade Of Grass, Nature Can Laugh At His So Called Scientific Knowledge.

Motivational

Nature

Laughter

Understanding Quotes: Their Essence and Application

Quotes, or quotations, are powerful tools in communication, encapsulating ideas, emotions, and wisdom in concise expressions. They serve various purposes across different contexts, from academic writing to everyday conversation.

1. Defining Quotes

A quote is a repetition of someone else's statement or thoughts. It can be a direct replication of words spoken or written by another individual, often used to support arguments, provide evidence, or convey profound insights.

2. The Importance of Quotes

2.1. Enhancing Credibility

Incorporating quotes from authoritative sources can bolster the credibility of your work. By referencing experts or primary sources, you demonstrate thorough research and a solid foundation for your arguments.

2.2. Providing Evidence

Quotes serve as concrete evidence to support claims. In academic and professional writing, they validate points made, offering readers a basis to trust the information presented.

2.3. Conveying Emotions and Perspectives

Quotes can encapsulate emotions and perspectives succinctly. They allow writers to express complex feelings or viewpoints through the words of others, often more eloquently than paraphrasing.

3. Types of Quotes

3.1. Direct Quotes

Direct quotes involve copying the exact words from a source, enclosed in quotation marks. They are used when the original wording is significant or particularly well-expressed.

3.2. Indirect Quotes (Paraphrasing)

Indirect quotes restate the original message in your own words. While not enclosed in quotation marks, they still require proper attribution to the original source.

3.3. Block Quotes

Block quotes are lengthy direct quotations, formatted as a separate block of text. They are typically used for quotes exceeding a certain length, varying by citation style. For instance, in APA style, quotes longer than 40 words are formatted as block quotes.

4. Proper Usage of Quotes

4.1. Contextual Relevance

Ensure that the quote you choose is relevant to the topic and adds value to your content. Avoid inserting quotes solely for decorative purposes.

4.2. Integration into Your Writing

Seamlessly integrate quotes into your writing. Introduce them appropriately and follow up with analysis or commentary to connect them to your main points.

4.3. Attribution and Citation

Always attribute quotes to their original authors and provide proper citations according to the required style guide (APA, MLA, Chicago, etc.).

5. Common Mistakes to Avoid

5.1. Overusing Quotes

Relying too heavily on quotes can overshadow your voice. Use them sparingly to support your arguments, not replace them.

5.2. Lack of Analysis

Presenting a quote without analysis or explanation can leave readers questioning its relevance. Always follow up with your interpretation or discussion.

5.3. Misquoting or Taking Out of Context

Ensure that quotes are accurate and not taken out of context, as this can mislead readers and undermine your credibility.

6. Quotes in Different Contexts

6.1. Academic Writing

In academic writing, quotes are used to support arguments, provide evidence, and engage with existing literature. Proper citation is crucial to avoid plagiarism.

6.2. Journalism

Journalists use quotes to provide firsthand accounts, add authenticity, and present multiple perspectives within a story.

6.3. Literature and Creative Writing

In literature, quotes can be used to convey character voices, themes, and stylistic elements. They enrich narratives and provide depth to storytelling.

7. Punctuation and Formatting

Understanding the correct punctuation and formatting of quotes is essential:

Quotation Marks: Always enclose direct quotes within quotation marks.

Punctuation Placement: In American English, periods and commas are placed inside quotation marks, while colons and semicolons are placed outside.

Block Quotes: For longer quotes, format them as block quotes without quotation marks, and indent the entire block.

8. Ethical Considerations

Ethical use of quotes involves accurate representation, proper attribution, and respect for intellectual property. Misuse can lead to plagiarism, which carries serious academic and professional consequences.

9. Tools for Managing Quotes

Utilize tools like citation generators and plagiarism checkers to manage quotes effectively. These tools help ensure proper formatting and originality in your writing.

Conclusion

Quotes are invaluable in enriching content, providing evidence, and conveying complex ideas succinctly. When used appropriately, they enhance the quality and credibility of your writing. Always ensure relevance, proper integration, and ethical usage to maximize their impact.

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