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Edison failed 10,000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.
Napoleon Hill / Author
Daughter
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Discouraged
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Electric Light
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Light
Made
Perseverance
Before
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Failed
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Few
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I don't like Thomas Edison. I'm a fan of Nicolai Tesla.
David Lynch / Film Director
Fans
Tesla
Fan
Edison
Thomas
Thomas Edison
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I have two mini huskies called Woody Guthrie and Edison Guthrie.
Dhani Harrison / Musician
Huskies
Two
Woody
Edison
Guthrie
Mini
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Do you realize if it weren't for Edison we'd be watching TV by candlelight?
Al Boliska /
Technology
Candlelight
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Tv
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One of my other nicknames was Thomas Edison, because I invented so many moves.
Earl Monroe / Basketball Player
Nicknames
Edison
Thomas
Thomas Edison
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The 1910 Edison film of 'Frankenstein' was itself a dead thing revived by technology.
Kage Baker / Writer
Edison
Frankenstein
Revived
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We owe a lot to Thomas Edison - if it wasn't for him, we'd be watching television by candlelight.
Milton Berle / Comedian
Funny
Humor
Candlelight
Television
Television Watching
Watching Television
Lot
Edison
Him
Owe
Thomas
Thomas Edison
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I grew up as one of the few Jews in Edison, and I had people tell me they hated me because of my religion.
David Bryan /
Religion Me People
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Jews
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My mother was a single mom whose days were spent as a customer service rep at Con Edison in downtown Brooklyn.
Jacqueline Woodson / Writer
Brooklyn
Downtown
Single Mom
Con
Customer
Customer Service
Edison
Rep
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Yes, my grandfather worked with Thomas Edison on the electric car, and he sold electric cars at the 1900 World's Fair in Paris.
Al Jardine / Guitarist
Car
Electric
Grandfather
Paris
Edison
Electric Cars
Fair
Sold
Thomas
Thomas Edison
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To me, Arnold was a pioneer in the spirit of Thomas Edison or Benjamin Franklin, while Tiger is a pioneer in the spirit of Bill Gates.
Mark Mccormack / Lawyer
Bills
Franklin
Gates
Pioneer Spirit
Pioneers
Arnold
Bill
Bill Gates
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Pioneer
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Tiger
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I wanted to be an inventor, whatever I thought that meant then. I guess I was thinking of Edison or maybe James Watt. Or maybe even Newton.
David Antin / Poet
Inventor
James Watt
Newton
Thinking
Meant
Edison
Guess
James
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My principal professional objective is to introduce intelligence as the ubiquitous utility. I'd like to be the Thomas Edison of intelligence.
Michael J. Saylor / Entrepreneur
Principal
Utility
Edison
Introduce
Objective
Thomas
Thomas Edison
Ubiquitous
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When I was a kid, which was just after Edison invented moving pictures, there were films that involved aliens coming to Earth for bad purposes.
Seth Shostak / Astronomer
Alien
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Purposes
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I'm a good Jewish boy from Edison, New Jersey, so I went and saw 'Fiddler on the Roof' because you have to: that's part of your bar mitzvah experience.
David Bryan /
Bar Mitzvah
Jersey
Mitzvah
New Jersey
Roof
Jewish
Boy
Bar
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Fiddler
Saw
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If I look into my past, I was definitely into inventors. I was into stories of Edison and Tesla and da Vinci and all these guys making stuff in their garage.
Robin Sloan / Author
Garage
Tesla
Edison
Inventors
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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 / Writer
Motivational
Work
Creative
Creative Work
Fifty
Imagine
Ought
Teamwork
Years
Work Day Never
Edison
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Thomas Edison
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When Thomas Edison worked late into the night on the electric light, he had to do it by gas lamp or candle. I'm sure it made the work seem that much more urgent.
George Carlin / Comedian
Candle
Electric
Electric Light
Gas
Lamps
Light
Night
Urgent
Edison
Lamp
Seem
Thomas
Thomas Edison
Worked
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I had moved out of the Edison Hotel because I couldn't pay the bill and was living at the Lincoln Hotel, where I couldn't pay the bill either, but it was cheaper.
Allan Sherman / Writer
Bills
Cheaper
Hospitality
Hotel
Moved
Pay
Bill
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Lincoln
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In my first few years of elementary school at the Edison School in Detroit, I did poorly. I remember worrying that I might fail the second grade and be held back.
Robert J. Shiller / Economist
Detroit
Elementary School
Edison
Elementary
Grade
Held
Poorly
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Long before my days at ESPN, the 'Philadelphia Inquirer,' or the 'New York Daily News' before that, I was a student at Thomas A. Edison Vocational and Technical High.
Stephen A. Smith / Talk Show Host
New York
Daily News
Espn
News
Philadelphia
Days
Daily
Student
High
Edison
Thomas
Vocational
York
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Imagine if Steve Jobs or Thomas Edison or Albert Einstein were all alive 10, 20, 30 years before we know them to be alive; it would have advanced the world that much sooner.
Marc Guggenheim / Television Writer
Advanced
Albert
Sooner
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Einstein
Steve
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To read is to have experiences; every book changes my life at least a little bit. The first time I can remember this happening was when I was 10, with a biography of Thomas Edison.
Jonathan Franzen / Novelist
Life Time Remember
Biography
Edison
Thomas
Thomas Edison
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Bill Gates wants people to think he's Edison, when he's really Rockefeller. Referring to Gates as the smartest man in America isn't right... wealth isn't the same thing as intelligence.
Larry Ellison / Businessman
Inspirational
Men
Gates
Referring
Thinking
Wealth
Bill
Bill Gates
Edison
Rockefeller
Same Thing
Smartest
Wants
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And it was at that point that I realized, in fact, our whole administration realized, that we could not rely on Metropolitan Edison for the kind of information we needed to make decisions.
William Scranton / Former Governor Of Pennsylvania
Administration
Information
Metropolitan
Needed
Rely
Decisions
Edison
In Fact
Realized
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I was really proud that I was named after Thomas Edison and wanted to be called Edson. I thought Pele sounded horrible. It was a rubbish name. Edson sounded so much more serious and important.
Pele / Soccer Player
Horrible
Proud
Rubbish
Serious
Named
Edison
Pele
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Thomas Edison
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Just think how much poorer we would be today if the world would have had half as many people in the 19th century as it actually did. You can get rid of Thomas Edison or Louis Pasteur; take your pick.
Robert Zubrin / Author
Today World People
Today World Your
Louis
Edison
Poorer
Rid
Thomas
Thomas Edison
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Americans understand that one of our great national strengths is innovation. Great innovators - Benjamin Franklin, Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and others - are household names.
Robert Hormats /
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Franklin
Gates
Innovation
Innovators
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Bill
Bill Gates
Edison
Ford
Steve
Strengths
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Thomas Edison
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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 / Comic Strip Creator
Advice
Creating
Naps
Starters
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Successful People
Your Dreams
Dreams Your Your Dreams
Alike
Beware
Liked
Edison
Empire
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Methods
Situations
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Thomas Edison
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What I'm trying to do is get this message out about self-empowerment, entrepreneurial spirit and true Americanism - the way we were when we changed the world, when Edison was alone, failing his 2,000th time on the lightbulb.
Glenn Beck / Radio Host
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Empowerment
Entrepreneurial
Entrepreneurial Spirit
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Trying
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Alexander Graham Bell brought us the telephone. He owns the telephones in the buildings. Thomas Edison owns the lightbulb. Whether they took it and did things to improve it, he's the guy. Now on the dance floor, that belongs to Chubby Checker.
Chubby Checker / Singer-Songwriter
Dance
Dance Floor
Guy
Alexander
Bell
Brought
Buildings
Chubby
Edison
Floor
Graham
Owns
Telephone
Thomas
Thomas Edison
Took
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It was the middle of winter, Con Edison had shut off my power, and I didn't have an agent. I made this VHS tape of some monologues, but I didn't even have the money for a MetroCard. So I walked the tapes 'round to the different agencies in town.
Jeremy Strong /
Monologues
Tape
Winter
Agencies
Agent
Con
Edison
Round
Shut
Walked
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Great innovators like Thomas Alva Edison, Henry Ford, and Andrew Carnegie didn't rely on government. There was hardly any of it in those days. More recently, Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, and Larry Ellison used genius to put brand-new ideas into production.
Lawrence Kudlow / Economist
Andrew
Gates
Innovators
Larry
Rely
Bill Gates
Edison
Ford
Hardly
Steve
Thomas
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When you look at the light bulb above you, you remember Thomas Alva Edison. When the telephone bell rings, you remember Alexander Graham Bell. Marie Curie was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize. When you see the blue sky, you think of Sir C.V. Raman.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam /
Blue
Blue Sky
Light
Light Bulb
Marie
Nobel
Nobel Prize
Prize
Remember
Rings
Sky
Above
Alexander
Bell
Bulb
Edison
Graham
Sir
Telephone
Thomas
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If we arrive at a saner world in which the maximum human potential is cultivated in every person, our descendants will not understand why our world produced only one Louis Pasteur, one Edison, one Tesla, or one Salk, and why great achievements in our age were the products of a relative few.
Jacque Fresco / Futurist
Descendants
Maximum
Our World
Relative
Tesla
Achievements
Age Great World
Louis
Arrive
Cultivated
Edison
Great Achievements
Produced
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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 /
Distribution
Electric
Entrepreneur
Hero
Light Bulb
Outstanding
Real Life
Life Power Great
Bulb
Edison
Grid
Inventions
Masses
Thomas
Thomas Edison
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