Thomas A. Edison

Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.

So far as religion of the day is concerned, it is a damned fake . . . Religion is all bunk.

Nie ma wysiłku, do którego człowiek się nie ucieknie, aby uniknąć prawdziwego wysiłku myślenia.

There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the real labour of thinking.

Restlessness is discontent - and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man - and I will show you a failure.

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

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

Restlessness is discontent - and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man - and I will show you a failure.

Nie mamy tutaj żadnych reguł. Próbujemy coś osiągnąć.

There ain't no rules around here. We're trying to accomplish something.

Religion is all bunk.

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.

We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.

There is no substitute for hard work.

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.

Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.

Wiele niepowodzeń życiowych to ludzie, którzy nie zdają sobie sprawy, jak bardzo byli blisko sukcesu, kiedy się poddali.

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Great ideas originate in the muscles.

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

I am long on ideas, but short on time. I only expect to live only about a hundred years.

There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever. What man's mind can create, man's character can control. 1921

If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves."

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.