"Genius? Nothing! Sticking to it is the..." - Quote by Thomas Edison
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.
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“Fools call wise men fools. A wise man never calls any man a fool.”
“X-rays ... I am afraid of them. I stopped experimenting with them two years ago, when I came near to losing my eyesight and Dally, my assistant practically lost the use of both of his arms.”
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“Would you like to know the great drama of my life? It is that I have put my genius into my life...I have put only my talent into my works.”
“It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and of the race of giants.”
“Genius is 1% talent and 99% percent hard work.”
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“A man is great not because he hasn't failed; a man is great because failure hasn't stopped him.”
“In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.”
“A child must feel the flush of victory and the heart-sinking of disappointment before he takes with a will to the tasks distasteful to him and resolves to dance his way through a dull routine of textbooks.”