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Quote DB :: Authors :: Thomas Edison :: View Quote View Quote "It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work." - Copy to Clipboard   --  Thomas Edison Listed in: Work Add Quote To Your Quote List   Rating: 1  Rate Quote 1 votes submitted Your Name: Friend's Email: Sponsored Links Top 5 quotes from Thomas Edison "Nearly every man who develops an idea works it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then he gets discouraged. That's not the place to become discouraged." "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." "To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk." "There's a way to do it better - find it." "Opportunity is missed by most people because it comes dressed in overalls and looks like work." Top 5 quotes from Work "The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort." "It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit." "Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field." "There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there." "When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before."

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