"None of my inventions came by accident...." - Quote by Thomas Edison
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.
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“Invention breeds invention.”
“I invented nothing new. I simply assembled the discoveries of other men behind whom were centuries of work. Had I worked fifty or ten or even five years before, I would have failed. So it is with every new thing. Progress happens when all the factors that make for it are ready, and then it is inevitable. To teach that a comparatively few men are responsible for the greatest forward steps of mankind is the worst sort of nonsense.”
“Invention is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration.”
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“The big secret in life is there is no secret. Whatever your goal. You can get there if you're willing to work.”
“Someone once defined hard work as the accumulation of the easy things you didn't do when you should have.”
“It is going to be tough if you look for the easy way out because very rarely is there an easy way out. There is nothing that replaces hard work.”