Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Thomas Alva Edison Quotations
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Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
Restlessness and discontent are the first necessities of progress.
Everything comes to he who hustles while he waits.
I have not failed. Ive just found 10,000 ways that dont work.
Genius is 1 inspiration and 99 perspiration.
When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes.
There is no substitute for hard work.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
If we did all the things we were capable of doing, We would literally astound ourselves.
Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Hell, there are no rules here-- we're trying to accomplish something.
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
I am long on ideas, but short on time. I only expect to live only about a hundred years.
There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking.
Results Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
Great ideas originate in the muscles.