T A Edison Quotes & Sayings

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. — Thomas A. Edison

We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything. — Thomas A. Edison

They gave Saint Patrick his own day and what did he do but run out a bunch of snakes. Why, Thomas Edison lit up the world. If it hadn't been for him we'd all still be sitting here in the dark, with nothing but a candle, — Fannie Flagg

No, I haven't failed thousands of times. On the contrary, I have successfully eliminated thousands of ideas that do not work! — Thomas A. Edison

The successful person makes a habit of doing what the failing person doesn't like to do. — Thomas A. Edison

The fact that Edison was a supporter of the mechanical breakthroughs in the physical world doesn't mean he wasn't equally entranced by the metaphysical. — Jodi Picoult

We owe a lot to Thomas Edison-if it wasn't for him, we'd be watching television by candlelight. — Milton Berle

A reporter called on Edison to interview him about a substitute for lead in the manufacture of storage batteries that the scientist was seeking. Edison informed the man that he had made 20,000 experiments but none had worked. "Aren't you discouraged by all this waste of effort?" the reporter asked. Edison: "Waste! There's nothing wasted. I have discovered 20,000 things that won't work." — Thomas A. Edison

Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work. — Thomas A. Edison

Youth doesn't take advice. — Thomas A. Edison

I have not failed. I've just found ten thousand ways that won't work. - Thomas A. Edison — Jay Crownover

Michael Jordan was cut from his high school basketball team. Albert Einstein didn't speak until he was four years old and was considered not very bright. Oprah Winfrey was demoted from a news anchor job because she was thought to be unfit for television. Walt Disney was fired from a newspaper for lacking imagination. Thomas Edison was called stupid by his teachers. The Beatles were told they didn't have a great sound and rejected by Decca Recording Studios. Dr. Suess was rejected by twenty-seven publishers. Abraham Lincoln had a long list of failures, including eight election losses and a nervous breakdown. — Tim Suttle

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. — Thomas A. Edison

Results? Why, man, I have gotten lots of results! If I find 10,000 ways something won't work, I haven't failed. I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is often a step forward ... — Thomas A. Edison

We haven't failed. We now know a thousand things that won't work, so we are much closer to finding what will. — Thomas A. Edison

I haven't failed,I have just found 10,000 ways that won't work. — Thomas A. Edison

What we call creative work, ought not to be called work at all, because it isn't. I imagine that Thomas Edison never did a day's work in his last fifty years. — Stephen Leacock

When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this - you haven't. — Thomas A. Edison

Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless. — Thomas A. Edison

Beware of advice about successful people and their methods. For starters, no two situations are alike. Your dreams of creating a dry-cleaning empire won't be helped by knowing that Thomas Edison liked to take naps. — Scott Adams

M. A. Rosanoff: Mr. Edison, please tell me what laboratory rules you want me to observe. Edison: There ain't no rules around here. We're trying to accomplish somep'n! — Thomas A. Edison

It's a failure only if you don't get anything out of it, Thomas Edison said he knew 999 ways that a light bulb did not work; yet we have lights today. — Benjamin Carson

I never failed. It just didn't work 10,000 times. — Thomas A. Edison

Time is really the only capital that any human being has, and the only thing he can't afford to lose. — Thomas A. Edison

I am in exact accord with the belief of Thomas Edison that spirit is immortal, that there is a continuing center of character in each personality. But I don't know what spirit is, nor matter either. I suspect they are forms of the same thing. I never could see anything in this reputed antagonism between spirit and matter. To me this is the most beautiful, the most satisfactory from a scientific standpoint, the most logical theory of life. — Henry Ford

An idea is something that won't work unless you do. — Thomas A. Edison

I couldn't put Rose and Mr. P. off forever. They were going to talk to Teresa sooner rather than later and I hadn't exactly been straight with them. It wasn't that I was afraid she'd get railroaded, because I knew there was no way she would have been sneaking around Edison Hall's house looking for something to take. It was because I knew there was at least a possibility that she had been. — Sofie Ryan

I didn't fail 1000 times. The light bulb was an invention with 1000 steps. — Thomas A. Edison

The inventor can't do it all, you've got to change people. We have an enormous capacity to invent super-machinery. But our desire to install the device is weak. Human inertia is the problem, not invention. Something in man makes him resist change. — Thomas A. Edison

Of the 200 light bulbs that didn't work, every failure told me something that I was able to incorporate into the next attempt. — Thomas A. Edison

I have never failed, I've only shown the way I did it before doesn't work. — Thomas A. Edison

Tomorrow Is My Exam But I Don't Care Because A Single Sheet Of Paper Can't Decide My Future — Thomas A. Edison

I didn't fail ten thousand times.
I successfully eliminated, ten thousand times,
materials and combinations which wouldn't work. — Thomas A. Edison

You can't realize your dreams unless you have one to begin with. — Thomas A. Edison

I consider myself an inventor first and an entrepreneur second. In real life, my hero is Thomas Edison. He was a great inventor, but also an outstanding entrepreneur who was able to sell his inventions to the masses. He didn't just develop the light bulb; he invented the entire electric grid and power distribution system. — Aaron Patzer

I had seen that once before, bleeding water. A little baby I worked on as a resident in training. That poor kid had been shot as well - his father had blasted away the top of his head with a shotgun - and we couldn't begin to stop the bloodletting in that case. "Looking pretty thin down here," I hollered when the stuff coming out his wounds was no more than pink salt water. That baby's heart stopped, started, stopped and started a dozen times before it finally gave up the ghost and we pronounced him. I could have read a newspaper through the watery stuff coming out his veins by then. — Edison McDaniels

Everyone steals in commerce and industry. I've stolen a lot, myself. But I know how to steal! They don't know how to steal! — Thomas A. Edison

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. — Thomas A. Edison

Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success. — Thomas A. Edison

Thomas Edison walks into a bar and orders a beer. The bartender says, "Okay, I'll serve you a beer. Just don't get any ideas. — Various

The Bible of nature is the best damn Bible in the world. Its laws are perfect and grand, and all the prayers in the world can't change them. There is intelligence and law in this world, and there may be supreme intelligence and law, but so far as the religion of the day is concerned, it is all a damned fake. — Thomas A. Edison

The Wright brothers didn't contemplate the staying on the ground of things. Alexander Graham Bell didn't contemplate the noncommunication of things. Thomas Edison didn't contemplate the darkness of things. In order to float an idea into your reality, you must be willing to do a somersault into the unconceivable and land on your feet, contemplating what you want instead of what you don't have. — Wayne Dyer

I have not failed. I have successfully discovered 1200 ideas that don't work. — Thomas A. Edison

When Marconi suggested the possibility of wireless transmission of sound (the radio),he was committed to a mental institution. But people like Lincoln, Edison, and Marconi were strongly motivated. So they didn't give up. They somehow knew that the only real failure is the one from which we learn nothing. They seemed to go on the assumption that there is no failure greater than the failure of not trying, and so they continued to try in the face of repeated failures. — John Powell

The man who doesn't make up his mind to cultivate the habit of thinking misses the greatest pleasure in life. — Thomas A. Edison

Education isn't play
and it can't be made to look like play. It is hard, hard work. But it can be made interesting work. — Thomas A. Edison

What made Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Edison, and Albert Einstein such creative geniuses? It wasn't reading books or watching YouTube talks about How To Be More Creative, that's for sure ... If startling insights could be systematically arrived at, they wouldn't be startling. The best you can do is to create a conducive environment: put in the hours; take time to daydream; avoid mind-corroding substances. — Oliver Burkeman

I try not to invent things that people don't need. — Thomas A. Edison

I don't like Thomas Edison. I'm a fan of Nicolai Tesla. — David Lynch

I am afraid of radium and polonium ... I don't want to monkey with them. — Thomas A. Edison

The world of the grotesque is the darkness within us. Well before Freud and Jung shined a light on the workings of the subconscious, this correlation between darkness and our subconscious, these two forms of darkness, was obvious to people. It wasn't a metaphor, even. If you trace it back further, it wasn't even a correlation. Until Edison invented the electric light, most of the world was totally covered in darkness. The physical darkness outside and the inner darkness of the soul were mixed together, with no boundary separating the two. They were directly linked. Like this." Oshima brings his two hands together tightly. "But today things are different. The darkness in the outside world has vanished, but the darkness in our hearts remains, virtually unchanged. Just like an iceberg, what we label the ego or consciousness is, for the most part, sunk in darkness. And that estrangement sometimes creates a deep contradiction or confusion within us. — Haruki Murakami

A failure teaches you that something can't be done-that way. — Thomas A. Edison

I never view mistakes as failures. They are simply opportunities to find out what doesn't work. — Thomas A. Edison