Thomas Edison's quote

Thomas Alva Edison (February 11, 1847 – October 18, 1931) was an American inventor and businessman. He developed many devices that greatly influenced life around the world, including the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and a long-lasting, practical electric light bulb. Dubbed "The Wizard of Menlo Park" (now Edison, New Jersey) by a newspaper reporter, he was one of the first inventors to apply the principles of mass production and large-scale teamwork to the process of invention, and because of that, he is often credited with the creation of the first industrial research laboratory.

토마스 에디슨 (ko)
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
You do something all day long don't you? Everyone does. If you get up at 7 am and go to bed at 11 pm, you have put in 16 good hours, and it is certain that most people have been doing something all that time. The only trouble is that they devote their time to a great many things, while I devote mine to only one. If they took the time in question and applied it to one object, they would succeed.
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
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.
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
We often miss opportunity because it's dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
If we all did the things we are capable of, we would astound ourselves.
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.
When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this - you haven't.
To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
Vision without execution is hallucination.
Negative results are just what I want. They’re just as valuable to me as positive results. I can never find the thing that does the job best until I find the ones that don’t.
There are no rules here -- we're trying to accomplish something.
What you are will show in what you do.
The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.
I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.
Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.
Failure is really a matter of conceit. People don't work hard because, in their conceit, they imagine they'll succeed without ever making an effort. Most people believe that they'll wake up some day and find themselves rich. Actually, they've got it half right, because eventually they do wake up.
I never did a day’s work in my life. it was all fun.
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.
There is no substitute for hard work.
There is always a better way.
To do much clear thinking a person must arrange for regular periods of solitude when they can concentrate and indulge the imagination without distraction.
There is time for everything.
We are like tenant farmers chopping down the fence around our house for fuel when we should be using Nature’s inexhaustible sources of energy--sun, wind and tide. I’d put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don’t have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that.
Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have.
This problem, once solved, will be simple.
Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.
Discontent is the first necessity of progress.
Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
The value of an idea lies in using it.
The most necessary task of civilization is to teach people how to think. It should be the primary purpose of our public schools. The mind of a child is naturally active, it develops through exercise. Give a child plenty of exercise, for body and brain. The trouble with our way of educating is that it does not give elasticity to the mind. It casts the brain into a mold. It insists that the child must accept. It does not encourage original thought or reasoning, and it lays more stress on memory than observation.
We have but two ears and one mouth so that we may listen twice as much as we speak.
I find out what the world needs. Then I go ahead and try to invent it.
Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.
There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the real labor of thinking.
The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.
I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.
If we did the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves.
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.
We often miss opportunity because it's dressed in overalls and looks like work
Negative results are just what I want. They’re just as valuable to me as positive results. I can never find the thing that does the job best until I find the ones that don’t.
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.
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.