Thomas A. Edison Quotes About Life

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  • I am long on ideas, but short on time. I expect to live to be only about a hundred.

  • The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast

  • I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

  • Great ideas originate in the muscles.

  • I owe my success to the fact that I never had a clock in my workroom.

    "Defending and Parenting Children Who Learn Differently : Lessons from Edison's Mother". Book by Scott Teel, 2007.
  • The doctor of the future will give no medication, but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, diet and in the cause and prevention of disease. ~

    Aphorism
  • I am 67, but I'm not too old to make a fresh start.

  • I never did a day's work in my life, it was all fun.

    "Edison & Ford Quote Book". Book by Edison & Ford Winter Estates, 2003.
  • Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

    "From Telegraph to Light Bulb with Thomas Edison". Book by Deborah Headstrom-Page, 2007.
  • 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.

    "Innovate Like Edison : The Five-Step System for Breakthrough Business Success". Book by Michael J. Gelb and Sarah Miller Caldicott, p. 67,
  • Today, I am wondering what would have happened to me by now, if, fifty years ago, some fluent talker had converted me to the theory of the eight-hour day and convinced me that it was not fair to my fellow-workers to put forth my best efforts in my work? I am glad that the eight-hour day had not been invented when I was a young man. If my life had been made up of eight-hour days, I don't believe I could have accomplished a great deal.

    "Along Broadway: The Edison Musical Magazine".
  • Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

    "An Enemy Called Average". Book by John L. Mason, 1990.
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Thomas A. Edison

  • Born: February 11, 1847
  • Died: October 18, 1931
  • Occupation: Inventor