"I never failed once. It just happened..." - Quote by Thomas Edison
I never failed once. It just happened to be a 2000-step process.
More by Thomas Edison
“Barring serious accidents, if you are not preoccupied with worry and you work hard, you can look forward to a reasonably lengthy existence.... Its not the hard work that kills, its the worrying that kills.”
“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.”
“I have not failed. I have successfully discovered 1200 ideas that don't work.”
More on Failure
“We can let our past [difficulties and failures] beat us or teach us [to be more knowledgeable, competent and realistic in the future]!”
“If it does not work the first time, try, try again. Then quit. No need to be an idiot.”
“I have been doing leg lifts faithfully for about fifteen years, and the only thing that has gotten thinner is the carpet where I have been doing the leg lifts.”