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Hell, there are no rules here⁠—we’re trying to accomplish something.
Thomas Edison1847–1931
- Motivation & Goals
There’s a way to do it better⁠—find it.
Thomas Edison1847–1931
- Motivation & Goals
Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Edison1847–1931The Diary and Sundry Observations of Thomas Alva Edison (1948), p. 110
I owe my success to the fact that I never had a clock in my workroom. Seventy-five of us worked twenty hours every day and slept only four hours — and thrived on it.
Thomas Edison1847–1931Diary entry, as quoted in Defending and Parenting Children Who Learn Differently : Lessons from Edison’s Mother (2007) by Scott Teel, p. 12
- Work
Resolved, never to lose one moment of time; but improve it the most profitable way I possibly can.
Jonathan Edwards1703–1758Seventy Resolutions (1722-1723), No. 5.
- Motivation & Goals
- Time
If A is a success in life, than A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.
Albert Einstein1879–1955
- Talking
I think and think for months and years, ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
Albert Einstein1879–1955
- Motivation & Goals
Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury – to me these have always been contemptible. I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.
Albert Einstein1879–1955What I Believe (1930)
Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem⁠—in my opinion⁠—to characterize our age.
Albert Einstein1879–1955“The Common Language of Science”, broadcast (28 September 1941); reprinted in Ideas and Opinions (1954)
- Motivation & Goals
When you are in any contest you should work as if there were, to the very last minute, a chance to lose it.
Dwight D. Eisenhower1890–1969
I’m proof against that word failure. I’ve seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.
George Eliot1819–1880Felix Holt, the Radical (1866)
- Failure
In all failures, the beginning is certainly the half of the whole.
George Eliot1819–1880Middlemarch (1871–1872), Book III: Waiting for Death, Chapter XXXIIn context
- Failure
It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them. How can we ever be satisfied without them until our feelings are deadened?
George Eliot1819–1880The Mill on the Floss (1860), Book Fifth: Wheat and Tares, Chapter IIn context
- Motivation & Goals
For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.
T. S. Eliot1888–1965Four Quartets (1943), East Coker (1940), V
The thing done avails, and not what is said about it. An original sentence, a step forward, is worth more than all the censures.
Ralph Waldo Emerson1803–1882English Traits (1856)
- Motivation & Goals