"Genius defined: of inspiration 1% percent, of..." - Quote by Thomas Edison
Genius defined: of inspiration 1% percent, of perspiration, 99%.
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“I didn't fail 1000 times. The light bulb was an invention with 1000 steps.”
“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.”
“There seems to be no limit to which some men will go to avoid the labor of thinking. Thinking is hard work.”
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“It is true that genius takes its rise out of the mountains of rectitude; that all beauty and power which men covet are somehow born out of that Alpine district; that any extraordinary degree of beauty in man or woman involves a moral charm.”
“Democritus maintains that there can be no great poet without a spite of madness.”
“The inquiry leads us to that source, at once the essence of genius, of virtue, and of life, which we call Spontaneity or Instinct.”
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“Opportunities will not overlook you because you are wearing overalls.”
“None shall rule but the humble,And none but Toil shall have.”
“Courage is not having the strength to go on, it is going on when you don't have the strength. Industry and determination can do anything that genius and advantage can do and many things that they cannot.”