 | Albert Shaw - 1893 - 898 pages
...to jiastifying that definition of the word which makes it an infinite capacity for taking pains. " Are your discoveries often brilliant intuitions ?...fully decided that a result is worth getting, I go ahead on it and make trial after trial until it comes." "I have always kept," continued Air. Edison,... | |
 | Albert Shaw - 1893 - 838 pages
...makes it an infinite capacity for taking pains. " Are your discoveries often brilliant intuitions f Do they come to you while you are ' lying awake nights?...fully decided that a result is worth getting, I go ahead on it and make trial after trial until it comes." " I have always kept," continued Mr. Edison,... | |
 | Orison Swett Marden - 1894 - 480 pages
...the nail. "Are your discoveries often brilliant intuitions?" asked a reporter of Thomas A. Edison. " Do they come to you while you are lying awake nights ? " " I never did anything worth doing by accident," was the reply, " nor did any of my inventions come indirectly... | |
 | Orison Swett Marden - 1896 - 490 pages
...the nail. " Are your discoveries often brilliant intuitions ? " asked a reporter of Thomas A. Edison. "Do they come to you while you are lying awake nights ? " " I never did anything worth doing by accident," was the reply, "nor did any of my inventions come indirectly... | |
 | Orison Swett Marden - 1896 - 488 pages
...nail. " Are your discoveries often brilliant intuitions ? " asked a reporter of Thomas A. Edison. " Do they come to you while you are lying awake nights ? " " I never did anything worth doing by accident," was the reply, " nor did any of my inventions come indirectly... | |
 | William C. King - 1900 - 680 pages
...chance, for he says, "I never did anything worth doing, by accident." In his own words, his rule is, "When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting, I go ahead on it, and make trial after trial until it comes." Cyrus W. Field .on one side of the Atlantic,... | |
 | Orison Swett Marden - 1901 - 382 pages
...not actually asleep, it may be said he was learning all the time." NOT BY ACCIDENT AND NOT FOR FUN " Are your discoveries often brilliant intuitions? Do...inventions come indirectly through accident, except the phonograph.1 No, when I have fully decided that a result is worth getting, I go about it, and make... | |
 | Orison Swett Marden - 1901 - 380 pages
...he replied, " nor did any of my inventions come indirectly through accident, except the phonograph.1 No, when I have fully decided that a result is worth...about it, and make trial after trial, until it comes. 1 " I was singing to the mouthpiece of a telephone," said Edison, " when the vibrations of my voice... | |
 | James Meeker Ludlow - 1902 - 346 pages
...sustained by passion for their pursuit. Edison says, " I never did anything worth doing by accident. When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting, I go ahead on it, and make trial after trial until it comes." The visitor to his experimental works may... | |
 | Henry Woldmar Ruoff - 1902 - 710 pages
...TWENTIETH CENTURY EDISON THE MAN. THE VALUE OF AN IDEA. I never did anything worth doing, by accident, nor did any of my inventions come indirectly through accident, except the phonograph. When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting, I go ahead on it and make trial after trial... | |
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I never did anything worth doing by accident," was the reply, " nor did any of my inventions come indirectly through accident, except the phonograph. No, when I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead on it and make trial after trial... 
